12 May
1997
12 May
'97
6:55 a.m.
I think in 10 years there probably will be no
memorable classic
computers worth collecting from the 90s. MAYBE the Mac portable, and I
can't think of anything else right off hand. There is just going to be
this hideous montage of various IBM PC clones by different manufacturers
or just run-of-the-mill computer shop PCs. Bleah! Long live the
thriving micro-computer revolution of the 70s and 80s!
I think a collection of Unix workstations would be mighty fine - Suns,
SGIs, NeXTs, etc.. I also think a collection of laptops (yes, PC) would
also be very nice. In other words, if the items show sparks of creativity
and/or clever engineering, a nice collection can be made.
People said that transistor radios would never be collectable - now there
is a huge following. The same will happen with the equipment from
the 1990s.
William Donzelli
william(a)ans.net