[spitfire]

It's interesting that you note the unreliability. I always assumed tubes were unreliable, but thought anything solid state (even those card based systems) would be "reliable enough" to start taking for granted.

But then you look at it and think Yeah, obviously they're not going to have MTBF times in the millions. It's going to be hundreds of hours - once a week, or maybe every few weeks between real hard crashes.

How would that change your behaviour.