Try this one on for size.

A customer of mine has a 2 year old $60K machine go down.

The company that made the machine went down with Zenetix.

The PC that runs the machine has custom ODBC cards.

The CPU fan went out and killed the processor, seemingly a simple problem but when the processor went it took out the firmware via corrupting it to the point that it can’t be accessed but that’s another issue.

Because of the cards and loopedey do crap on these machines I have to use an OLD motherboard to accommodate the cards and a NEW OLD processor and a geek to put it all together without calling me all day telling me what he’s doing and all I am telling him is “The only call I want is, I got it working and give me my check” I have had 3 geeks on this all are very reputable, but this equipment and having no manuals is a royal pain.

Cost so far…………

Pentium 133 computer with windows 3.11

$3725 and still counting but I think we are half way there.

Oh yea and relearning dos has been a real treat.