2 Jul
2016
2 Jul
'16
9:32 a.m.
On 07/02/2016 08:57 AM, william degnan wrote:
Couldn't have said this better myself. Absolutely
agree. I very
much understand that the majority sees "vintage computing" to mean
more than the sum of the dictionary's definition, but doing so does
not adapt well over time. If a person writes instead 8-bit vintage
computing, 60's mini vintage computing, Apple vintage computing, and
so on would be more correct...In short if one adds a modifier before
"vintage computing" a lot of the clarification problems go away.
In my lifetime, I've seen the word "vintage" go from the conventional
use of "pertaining to wine produced from a specific year's harvest of
grapes" to "something old, but of unspecified age". After all, the
"vin-" in the word indicates the wine connection.
One can have a vintage 2015 Bordeaux, but apparently not a vintage
computer of the same age.
Like Humpty-Dumpty's "impenetrability", it can mean whatever we want it
to mean, I suppose.
--Chuck