[cctalk] Re: what is on topic?

I was not disagreeing with you. I thought that "dang obsolete" was an amusing wording; and applies to most of my interests. These days, doing web browsing, email, and transcoding video, I use a bunch of XP and Win7 machines, but my heart, and nostalgia, are with older stuff. in the process of having to downsize considerably, I gave away my N* Horizon, my TRS80s, and most of everything else. Soon, I will pack up my Poqets and OQOs. I am soon going to give the rest of my Leicas and large format cameras to an old friend. I doubt that any "definition" could really be adequate to pin down the topics to the fun stuff. -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com On Wed, 21 Dec 2022, Chris via cctalk wrote: > Windows 2003 and XP is about as obsolete now as the IBM PC was in 1995. Probably more so. XP is popular on Vogons but I'm sure considerably less then 5% of computers actually host it. > > There's also the issue of beating a dead horse. There will always and forever (and forever...) be some esoteric issue to discuss about some bizzare and mostly unknown 8 bit system that 3 people on the whole of planet earth own (now not to brag, but chances are there are a dozen or less Northstar Dimension owners (never mind users) out there. And I'm proud to be 1). Who am I going to discuss that with?? And a larger issue is what? An even larger issue is why? Well I got plans ... > > Lists of this sort are about tech and used by people who love it. Windows 11 is not germain to these conversations. But what about, and I'm just putting this out there, making pre UEFI shtuff -on-? I don't even know how I personally feel about such a delineation. But the suggestion is there. Nostalgic weirdos like older tech. Yes often dang old. Now a Thinkpad T60p doesn't exactly seem dang old. But it's pretty much dang obsolete (can't remember what sort of firmware it has but the processor, though 64 bit, is part of that hazy quasi transitional grouping that had more similarities to a 32 bit chip). On Tuesday, December 20, 2022, 10:05:06 PM EST, 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" > >