I know it has been discussed a billion times before... My personal measure has nothing to do with the 20 year rule - I use the introduction of the PC as the end of the Vintage era. IBM made the computing industry standard and boring.
Anything pre - 1982 is interesting, anything post 1982 is a boat anchor... (Duck) Doug Doug Jackson VK1ZDJ On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 1:59 PM, allison via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On 02/25/2018 09:06 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > > On Sun, 25 Feb 2018, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote: > >> What is vintage computing? > >> I think it's the IBM PC. Anything else is not vintage computing. > > > > Frankly, I'm shocked. > > > > I could have understood, if you were to have chosen Atari, Superbrain, > > Commodore 64, or Coleco Adam. Anything other than those, . . . > Fred, > > Just wow! > > Set reaction$mode=sarcasm/troll > > Does he mean my 1973 PDP-8f, or maybe the Altair, TRS80, or my LSI-11/03 > is not? > Heck I don't even keep PCs as collectible, oops I do have a random > Ratshack HX1000. > > Seriously? > > > Allison > > >
