They're not gone - I've hodled mine and keep repairing it. Cold, dead hands and all that :-p

The "bathtub curve" is real, but the early lenovo Thinkpads bathtub must have been designed for an anaconda.

Of course, I need to do sillier and sillier optimisations to make a modern browser run on it acceptably, but stories like this one remind me of why!