Are you struggling with an 80 year old computer - or does it just seem that way?

Dr Harry, our favourite TV Veterinarian often talks about the age of dogs in "dog years" and similarly cats in “cat years", so I have been asking myself why not "computer years”?

It is not as easy to come up with a definition for Computers as it is with animals. You see electronic things may still "work" well after their useful life is long gone, where as all living things do "literally die". So how did I do it?

It would be fair to say nobody works over 100 years of age, and few computers are in regular commercial use when they are 5 years old?

So therefore one year equals 20 computer years, therefore your 1 year old computer is equal to a 20 year old, right in its prime! 2 years and it is forty, still going strong, but retirement plans may have been thought of.

3 years it is sixty, it is still quite useful, but cannot keep up the pace, and doesn't want to do some of the things the young ones "think nothing of".

4 years old and it is now equal to an 80 year old, past the official retirement age, may still work fine but at a different pace to the 20 year olds, has a marked preference for the old programs that were all the rage when it was young, may refuse to "dance to the modern music" if you get my meaning.

5 years old- listen to the kids - you are working on a dinosaur!

DON'T PUT UP WITH IT - phone us and find out how !