California
Super Star Member
- Joined
- Jan 22, 2004
- Messages
- 14,750
- Location
- An hour north of San Francisco
- Tractor
- Yanmar YM240 Yanmar YM186D
2022 will be different. Lots of good gear will go to the dump.Nobody is sending a PC to the landfill because it won't run the yet-unreleased Windows 11.
I made quite a bit of money re-selling gear that was surplussed and auctioned by government and large corporations just before Y2K.
My specialty was testing and guaranteeing SCSI tape backup drives. They had no Y2K sensitivity. I never had a warranty return. It was a huge waste of taxpayer dollars to retire these just because an expensive consultant said 'discard everything'.
This is similar to the tractor manufacturers installing softfware that only they can maintain, which will eventually cause equipment to be retired long before the mechanical parts are worn out.