3 Jan
2007
3 Jan
'07
9:42 p.m.
--- Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 3 Jan 2007 at 14:44, Jules Richardson wrote:
Bah. Then everything becomes vintage just cuz someone
says so. There has to be an unimpeachable criteria -
age. I say 20 YEARS! I have spoken.
We need a page reachable through the classiccmp
website which takes into
account things like: <snip>
Well, there you go! Someone submits a system for
consideration and
list votes on it. You know, there's vintage and then there's
vintage.
That Mac 6100
that I picked up certainly qualifies as "vintage" by
the 10-year
rule, but as a sample of something,unique it's very
[yawn!].
The 10 year rule was revoked, probably too late in
time also. With regards to the PM 6100, it depends on
how you look at things (pertaining to interesting, not
vintage). It was the first PPC based Mac. Yeah the
slightly later ones were more expandable, more fun.
But those were pretty exciting times. I can remember
when the first COLOR Macs came out (now that's a
vintage topic, or nearly :). It felt like the dawn of
a new era. Why we loved those skeevy little b & w
boxes so much I don't know LOL LOL.
I find
some of the PC-like things more interesting. Even
my modem running
Linux is more interesting.
I'd say anywhere up to the very first few 386's are
vintage (grudgingly). We can always make the case for
innovative, stylish, mod. But those are separate
issues from deeming something vintage. If you start to
blur the line all heck breaks loose.
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