[grouchyOldGuy]

I still have the first computer I bought: an Apple ][+. I haven't booted it up in over fifteen years. If it still works it could be useful for some things, but without a TCP/IP stack, it can never connect to the Internet or even a LAN which severely limits its usefulness to me. Even if hardware lasts 25 years, who can say what the needs of the user will be in that time and whether the hardware will support the software needed to support those needs?

For simpler tools, such as knives, hammers and wrenches, I always buy top quality and have many hand tools that are more than a quarter century old and in perfect working condition. Some of the hand tools I have were my grandfather's first, then my father's before coming to me.