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It's hard to believe anyone would just scrub their dives because their computer stopped working. Just throw a watch in with your gear. During your predive or surface interval, check the maximum NDL's for the depths you expect to dive and either commit them to memory or write them down. Then check the time or start your stop watch when you start your dive. It takes all of about 1 minute. As you dive periodically check your depth. It's that simple.
Then if your computer craps out on you, you just switch to your slate and watch.
For multi-level dives, you'll run out of table no-deco time long before you run out of computer no-deco time, since the computer is tracking your depth continuously while the table assumes a square profile.
If you switch from computer to tables and use your maximum depth and current run-time, as the tables are designed, you could easily find yourself off the edge of the no-deco table.
Terry