Re: "Right to Repair" vs FRUs

On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 19:44:49 -0400, Ralph Mowery
<rmowery42@charter.net> wrote:

In article <vdkgrn$3dbi8$1@dont-email.me>, llc@fonz.dk says...

 

It won't benefit boat-anchor devotees like myself, whatever happens.
Expecting Tek or HP to supply a custom chip for something they sold
30, 40 or more years ago? Not likely at all.

 
30+ years is a lot expect, but for example,  EU requires that car
manufacturers have spare parts and provide technical service for at
least 10 years
 
 

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It is hard to hit the happy replacement time.  Some industrial machines
are in use for 50  or more years.  I guess that the normal life expencty
should come into play.  Hard to believe in a  way but a friend that has
one says you can get just about any part for the modle T Ford that is
nearly 100 years old.  NOt from Ford but after market items.
>
I read that about 30 years ago the military needed a diode that would
normally cost less than a dollar cost them many thousands of dollars. 
The military parts department did not have one and as it had to meet the
mill spec the diode company had to make up a batch of thousands as one
just could not be made. If not for mill spec the diode could have been
ordered from about half a dozen places for less than a dollar.

It's still true.  The military supply system is intended to maintain
systems for many decades, well longer than most parts will be
available.  It's also true for jellybean parts, the cost of process
and documentation well exceeds the cost of a bag of jellybeans.

Joe Gwinn