I hate nationalistic jingo (I'm a citizen of Earth, we are all one race), but this thread has given me a good laugh. I'll buy parts from anywhere, as long as they are good. Like everyone else, I want parts to last, but just because parts from 20 years ago still work is no guarantee that modern parts from the same company/region will last just as well.

I do have my prefered component manufacturers, but I'm not anal about it 😀

To be on topic, the only robust systems I see still operating with 24/7/365 service for multiple decades are HP-UX and DEC/Compaq Alpha. Minimal hardware failures with uptime counted in years with no reboots. (example from my workplace)

I am one of the only "Tough American Strong components" left here apart from a few other Vogons US members. <runs and hides> guess am not that tough 🤣.
Had to throw that in just for laughs...😁

Horun wrote on 2021-08-16, 01:33:

I am one of the only "Tough American Strong components" left here apart from a few other Vogons US members. <runs and hides> guess am not that tough 🤣.
Had to throw that in just for laughs...😁

We need more laughter here.....😉

I'm just a 6ft midget in the South Pacific Ocean.

As my profile says, I am Canadian . My brethren gave us :
- Adlib Multimedia
- Advanced Gravis Computer Technology
- Mediatrix
- Matrox
- ATI Technologies
- Corel
- Watcom International Corporation

Is that "tough and strong" enough, big and bad enough... ? 😉 (EDIT : Shaft (1971) soundtrack is playing...)

Then there's some SGS Thomson Cyrix CPUs that were made in Canada I think, and we had system integrators like Seanix who assembled all their own boards and built systems you could beat a polar bear to death with.

Edit: Think it must have been Nortel's fab they bought in Ottawa.

BitWrangler wrote on 2021-08-16, 03:15:

Then there's some SGS Thomson Cyrix CPUs that were made in Canada I think, and we had system integrators like Seanix who assembled all their own boards and built systems you could beat a polar bear to death with.

Edit: Think it must have been Nortel's fab they bought in Ottawa.

I remember Seanix. When I was still a student, my college COOP was pushing Seanix branded systems, AFAICR (mid 90s). I never used one of those, but a friend of mine did . Memories...