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How I Learned the Hard Way That Aging Technology Is Expensive

Harvard Business Review

I figured these computers couldn't possibly depreciate much further. Then the family's CFO, my wife, who also happens to be a CPA, demanded to know their TCO. cost of improving the operating systems; unfortunately, the new OS could not be loaded from the internal CD drive and required an external DVD player, which cost $120.