Comment by 0x000xca0xfe

Honestly, probably not much would happen.

My daily driver laptop is a 2012 Thinkpad I literally pulled out of a scrap heap at my local university but it refuses to die. Moore's law has slowed enough that old hardware is slow but still perfectly capable to run 99% of existing software.

Already existing machines would give us at least one or two decades to restart manufacturing from zero and that is more than enough time to avoid existential problems.

And most computers are under-utilized. The average gaming PC is powerful enough to run the infrastructure for a bunch of small companies if put to work as a server.