17 Nov
2004
17 Nov
'04
3:31 a.m.
Computer Collector E-Mail Newsletter wrote:
The terms are too similar, people will just get more
confused.
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.
I think you're all looking at this completely backwards.
The rate of electronic evolution (OK, change) has *accelerated* over
time, meaning that computers are obsoleted much more quickly than their
older counterparts. Therefore the age limit for this list should be
*lowered* to about 8 years now.
Sometime in about 12 years a computer that's two weeks old will
qualify as a classic.
I'll be grabbing my hat....
Doc