24 Nov
2009
24 Nov
'09
10:06 a.m.
On 24 Nov 2009 at 23:45, Doug Jackson wrote:
Personally I work on the basis that 1982 is the cutoff
year for
anything interesting Anything newer is only interesting if it isn't
powered by Intel or AMD.
I'd take that back perhaps another 10 years to 1973. It's a little
boring seeing systems with fixed power-of-two word lengths, 8-bit
characters and predictable instruction sets, all implemented with MOS
transistors.
Go back to the 1950's and 60's and there were some really interesting
systems. One of the VC Foruum posters picked up a batch of old PC
boards--I noted that he had a card from a Packard Bell 250 in the
collection. An interesting machine, if there ever was one.
--Chuck