24 Nov
2009
24 Nov
'09
7:13 a.m.
Hence my inclusion of an age factor as well, but I think this illustrates the point. One
man's junk is another man's treasure.
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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 9:09:52 AM
Subject: Re: Ten Year Rule
geoffrey oltmans wrote:
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. :)
Indeed, because that criterion tends to discount supercomputers and
mainframes.
Peace... Sridhar