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It is only in the last ten or 20 years that motorcars have become reasonably reliable. It took the car 100 years to become reliable - but you still need to spend time and money learning how to drive ….. And repairing damage. For the first 30 or 40 years after invention the television was very unreliable. Now it is unusual if a television develops a fault of any sort within five or six years.
We are still inventing the personal computer and over the next few years we can expect it to become far more reliable, until that time personal computer owners have got to be prepared to study their "highway code", pay for maintenance and tuition, and occasionally to be "towed in." Part of the problem seems to be that we have an unrealistic expectation as to the reliability and ease of use of personal computers.
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