I've seen a 486 machine with a QBasic program to read values from a parallel port, working perfectly on an university (on a Physics lab) in 2000 .
He has been lucky that his 486 don't broke, but sometimes the old hardware is more resilient what you think. The only hard drives that I seen to die, was modern hard drives of >100GiB . However, I have here an Amiga 1200 with a little hard disk of 200MiB that it keeps working fine.
He has been lucky that his 486 don't broke, but sometimes the old hardware is more resilient what you think. The only hard drives that I seen to die, was modern hard drives of >100GiB . However, I have here an Amiga 1200 with a little hard disk of 200MiB that it keeps working fine.