21 Dec
2022
21 Dec
'22
3:23 a.m.
Has anyone here been to the Kennett Classic museum? There is what was
originally called the "post vintage" room that has stuff like NeXT, Sun,
SGI, PS/2's, Windows 3.1, 386/486 laptops, GridPad/IBM Thinkpad, Go Pad,
DEC Alphas workstations, etc. Now it's referred to as the "32-bit GUI
workstation collection".
I learned real fast that when highschool kids come to the museum they don't
even know what a Commodore 64 was, not to mention anything older. So each
era has it's vintage-of-that-era things. It's not our place because we're
mostly experts in the older vintages to really have as much of a say in
what is vintage for the late 90's early 2000's. Would it really be PCs, or
is this the era of smart phones, IP networking dial up ISP, etc.
It's not time yet for the XP/Win server 2003, not yet. But save these
things and your ipADs and google glasses, and your blackberries and palm
handhelds. Their day is coming in a few years. We have to avoid thinking
it's just the next PC as "vintage" - the day of the desktop is kind of
done except for gaming machines, as far as sales go.
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On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 10:05 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Wed, 21 Dec 2022, Chris via cctalk wrote:
Well there doesn't seem to be a great deal of
activity these days, I has
thought the suggestion about relaxing the rules might need discussing.
I know there are people still using Windows 2003 puters, or a near
equivalent based on XP? But that's entirely irrelevant, as I'm quite
sure you could find someone out there still utilizing an 8088/286/386.
Of course that's the discretion of the sysop. As it stands there's at
least 1 opinion for every ahole attached to the person who types on this
board. Whateber. The way I see it dang obsolete shouldd be open for
discussion.
To summarize: "On-Topic" == "Dang obsolete"