I don't know that any further classification is necessary for whether an obsolete
computer is worthy of discussion. But, if one was required, my suggestion would be to base
it on a expanding scale of how much system memory the machine is capable of supporting
and/or how old. Most old machines that people would consider "interesting" on
this list I'm sure would use far less than 128MB of system memory for example.
But, of course I'm sure someone else on the list will disagree, and therein lies the
problem. :)
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From: Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com>
To: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tue, November 24, 2009 8:50:00 AM
Subject: Re: Ten Year Rule
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.
That's not right either. There are interesting Intel-based boxes out there. IBM PC
Server 720? Sequent DYNIX boxes? Tandy 4000MC?
Peace... Sridhar