I'm with you Bill. I had 3 of them....1 died in the 50k miles range and about 7 years old, and other at 38k (but 30 years old), and another was still working when I traded the car at about 10 years old and 80k+. But when they were working, they were excellent units from a performance standpoint...always fast starting and very responsive IMO.
A DC version would have been sweet!
While plenty of units did go bad, I think a lot of them got replaced when they were not bad (particularly where the problem was not resolved with replacement). They did use several pickups and sensors on the engine which folks seemed to overlook when doing their diagnosis. And of course, this was the first time a lot of techs were doing computer diagnosis, which did not help matters any.