17 Nov
2004
17 Nov
'04
9:47 a.m.
At 09:23 AM 11/17/04 -0800, you wrote:
You're dead wrong about that. I know a lot of people that work in the field and take
200LXs with them to send and recieve messages. They also use them to setup radio systems
and other equipment via RS-232 links. Many of these people work in the field for long
periods and space and weight are a premium and a laptop, plus charger, plus battteries
take up a lot more room and weight than a 200LX and take time to boot and them load a
terminal program. The 200LX has the OS and applications in ROM and starts as soon as you
press the On key.
>>>> On the other hand, especialy you may agree that almost any kind of 94ish
PDA is vintage from todays view. Isn't it?
Yes, as no one (who is sane) uses a Newton or HP200LX for day-to-day business.
LOL, that kind of comment nearly got me attacked at the "10th anniversary of
the Newton" celebration at MIT last year. For safety I avoid the HP200 mailing
list entirely. :)
You're still on the wrong list to make that kind of comment! :-)
Joe
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--- Ladyelec(a)aol.com wrote:
> Why not make it :
> 10 years: Vintage
> 20 years: classic
> 25 years: antique
> or something similar to that?
> Isa
The terms are too similar, people will just get
more confused.
Agreed.
All I intended to do when I started this
discussion topic was to point out
the
obsurdity of considering things like the Web and
Pentiums as "vintage" (or
any
other synonym). But then others observed back
that I was being
short-sighted
-- if you ignore that actual age,
"vintage" just means "anything considered
obsolete by the mainstream," and that's a good enough answer for me. But I
do
think that 15 years, not 10, is a better divider
between what's just "old"
and
what's truly vintage.
Well, the important part was to get the off the actual stuff.
Everything else is hard to do just by years. Shure, a 1994 PC
might be about where you still may use it, and more important,
might not look interesting at all from a colectors view. On
the other hand, especialy you may agree that almost any kind
0f 94ish PDA is vintage from todays view. Isn't it?
In fact, for VCFe the same 10 year limit is enfoced (exempts
need very good reasoning). Everythin below is NADA, everything
above up to everyones own judgement. So, I'm expecting PCs to
show up soon.
Gruss
H.
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