YATYD: Ten Year Rule

Yes, I was thinking about this. Why do we like classic computers? I would guess the reasons are different for different people here, but in my case it's becasue they are machines that I _can_ understand the hardware (and often the software) of. THey are machines I can have the tools and test gear to investigate and repair them. I suspect for some people it's nostalgia, being able to own all the machines they read/heard about when they were starting out (I am thinking of the micros of the late 1970's/ early 1980's). For me this is not the case, I say that because I was unashamedly a TRS-80 person back then, and while I now own many of the other micros of the period (Apple ][, PETs, BBC, etc), they are by no means the machiens I am most interested in. The machines I spend most of my time working on are machines I'd never heard of when they were new. Err, doesn't that include very reacent PCs? If they were around yesterday, they were technically around when you were younger :-) -tony