defining 'vintage'

Sam Onella wrote: I don't agree there; my guess is that "current" tech of the future will nearly always have some form of emulation/VM software available to allow the PC software of today to run - and if at some point that's not the case, then the time that it stops being true is the time to take a snapshot of the available hardware of the day. I can't see the point in rescuing a modern 3GHz PC that runs Windows XP (say) when I could just as well wait a handful of years and rescue a 2 year old 10GHz PC that will happily run XP in a VM at a faster rate than the 3GHz system. Hardware-wise, there's nothing interesting about modern PCs. I really can't see myself looking back in ten or fifteen years and wishing I had one. There's just nothing 'cool' about them, no nostalgia value; they're just beige boxes that crunch numbers. They don't even have ports any more that are really useful to me (unlike serial / parallel / SCSI etc. on ones of the 80s and 90s) where I can easily twiddle bits and "do stuff" if I want. Sure, I bet there are some niche bits of hardware out there that are pretty neat and worth saving - but the 'commodity' stuff is just boring, will always be boring, and for the foreseeable future will be succeeded by machines that are just faster versions of the boring hardware of today. Right, well that's me thoroughly depressed... ;-) cheers Jules