long term computers

[woodelf]

Vintage Computer Festival wrote:

>That's fine, because if you play your cards right you'll most likely end
>up out-living most of us here and then you can piss on all our graves.
>  
>
And buy all this *now*  unwanted  computer stuff  for a song  from  your 
long gone estates. :)
So how long do most people expect to keep vintage computers up and 
running with TTL and
other hardware going the way of the dodo?
Ben alias woodelf.