22 Dec
2022
22 Dec
'22
7:29 p.m.
On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 5:35 PM Bill Degnan via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
We used to shun anything newer than and including the
IBM PC but
time.marches on. You're safe if you discuss systems produced before 1990.
After that put an OT in the front of your subject so as not to offend the
purists. Personally I think anything built after 1995 is too new for
cctalk, but thats just me.
As mentioned elsewhere, the old "10 year" rule is long irrelevant.
I think 1995 is a good general cut-off for a strictly time-based
threshold, but it's not a hard boundary - PPC Macs I would think
should still be in bounds.
A softer rule would probably be "(nearly) anything goes except
nearly-current Windows PCs". If a machine can run WinXP, it's too
new. Also as mentioned, there are plenty of lists about modern PCs.
-ethan