10 year rule

Rumor has it that Computer Collector E-Mail Newsletter may have mentioned these words: Wham. Wham. Wham. Yet another dead horse being beaten once again... Ungh. Yet again, I will mention that depending on *how* strict you feel we should police that number, my beloved CoCo3 will once again become offtopic. If memory serves, it was manufactured through 1990 and was sold until late 1992. So, you want to change the "deadline" (as does someone at least once per year -- check the archives!) -- will there be exceptions? If so, what will they be? Will it be "anything newer but still used an 8-bit processor"? That would still leave out a lot of neat Amiga hardware that just got ontopic. Will it be "introduction date?" There are MS-DOS versions introduced over 15 years ago that still run on brand-new equipment. Will that make it all ontopic? Will it be an arbitrary "kewlness factor" which can (of course) never be quantified? If it's the latest that you're considering, what's the point of even *having* a number? For some reason, someone always feels that the way it is now is "horribly broken" and that by changing a number will magically "unbreak" it. Unforch, what you may consider "fixed" may be "horribly broken" to someone else. There is no solution for this perceived "problem," and most say there is no problem to solve. Regards, Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers _??_ zmerch(a)30below.com (?||?) If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead _)(_ disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.