25 Jan
2012
25 Jan
'12
1:47 p.m.
Mouse wrote:
Well, they were common enough back then, certainly - but there was enough
diversity in the industry that I think most people with an interest in the
hardware of the day could see that they'd perhaps be desirable in the future.
Hardware-wise,
there's nothing interesting about modern PCs. [...]
Very similar words could well have been said about things like the C64
and 68k-based Macs back when they were a year or two old. Today,
they're much sought after. If it turns out you're right that commodity
computers ten years from
now will be just faster peecees, then you are probably right. (I
suspect that will be the case, but of course I don't know any more than
anyone else does.) But if the world lurches away from peecees to
something else, it wouldn't surprise me if they became sought-after
nostalgia items.
But my point is that I think even if the hardware of the future is
"something else", it'll still be capable of running the software of today;
and there's no real "user experience" in today's hardware.
If, at some point, that stops being true for whatever reason, then that's
the point to start collecting the 'last known good' hardware that will do
the job.
cheers
Jules