YATYRD

Eh. Dump the 10 year rule and cut off at 1994. I'm serious. The computer world is not a flat, linear space from 1948 to present. Somewhere after the beginning of the pc/appliance age, computers are qualitatively different. The culture and tech is different too. You could more easily lump the mini and mainframe people together than the mini and pc people. When the computer-user count became in the millions it's simply not the same. At some point post-1990 computers became near-pure commodity. It's like collecting toasters. There are intersting models, but not in the way that say 1960s or even 1970s are -- pretty much ANY computer from the 70s and even 80s is "interesting". Pretty much anything post-MSDOS is deadly dull -- with exceptions of course. Consistency is for machinery.