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Is how I wound up with two Allantes. In 2020 they were pocket change (Hagerty says have come up A Lot since) Figured one really nice one to drive and a second (same year) for parts. Problem arises when second one is really too good (runs/drives, cold AC, nice interior and body) to be a parts car. M$ Windows for many years had the Linux model. Make $$ on licenses and new (OEM) computers, retail is just a convenience). When you look at the real model, once the servers and access (M$ is their own provider) the updates/upgrades really have near-zero cost, hardware is already amortised. Aside: it is easy to tell what kind of license you have by opening a DOS box ( press win (windows button on bottom left of keyboard)-R and enter CMD). When box opens type "SLMGR /DLI" (enter). Computers were my rice bowl before retirement, I still build the occasional one. One of the effects of the Windows 11 craze is that a AMD Ryzen 3 3200G CPU has gone from $99 (new) a year ago to $300 NIB and $200 used today. It is on The List. That said M$ has stated that support for Windows 8 ended in 2016 and Windows 10 support will end in 2025 so no real reason to upgrade yet. Win 11 is said to be mainly for security and gamers. They say a true collector does not know how many he/she has. I am kinda that way with personal computers. Earliest is an IBM 5150, earliest "transportable" is a hot-rodded 1983 Columbia VP-1600 on which I wrote a lot of AV software. Then there is a pile of tablets (at one point I thought a Tablet with a docking station and keyboard/monitor/mouse was going to take over the world. Was rong, not that bad. And then there was "Windows to Go"...), pile of net/notebooks, two main desktops in the office, and five more desktops (one running Kali Linux to manage them all) in the toy room. Did recently need to rewire house to Cat 6 for gig ethernet. Probably should have gone wireless but to reach really high speeds need to wire direct. Besides provider just raised my connection to 200 Mb/s and Cat 5 was no longer good enough. Oh well if ny one needs some help, just email.

Believe it or not I'm still running Windows 8.1 on my 6 year old Acer laptop. Am planning to upgrade laptop and s/w this coming Spring, though.

On my 88 I have a Delco system on the engine and a spare Magnavox in the trunk. Suspect are a few Delcos around but need to hire some grad students for a dig, rally do not know how many of what I have. Going to use a '90 radio to test radio modules from 88-89, they just plug in. ps being subhumed by Windows 11, what can be upgraded, what cannot, and what can be lied about. Amazing thing is the skyrocketting of CPUs that are on The List. An AMD 3200G was $99 a year ago and are close on $300 now. Not sure why the mass hysteria but M$ is obsoleting everything before 2018 and many later ones cannot be updated (e.g. anything with a smaller drive than 64GB). Thought only Apple did that.