16 years
Is how long my Compaq computer that had Windows 95 lasted, not without an upgrade to 16 mb of ram and some repairs but still lasted that long. Unfortunately that model had the bios on the hard disk, so when the hard disk died so did the computer. I still took out the floppy disk drive and the CD ROM reader out if it and put them in another computer because they were quite good.
And my Media Center Windows XP laptop finally died last year, I had got it a year after Windows Vista got released.
286 computers could literally last decades, last time I saw one still in use it was 2005 or 2006.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
