30 Sep
2005
30 Sep
'05
1:55 a.m.
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 17:41:51 -0700 (PDT)
Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com> wrote:
If you have a time machine, load it into that. There will be somebody
eagerly waiting at the other end fourty years from now. I guarantee it.
All that will have been 'preserved' are what were perceived as the
'good' bits by the casual hobbyists.
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Scott Stevens wrote:
> > Yeah, but at some point computers from the post-1994 period will
be
> > interesting, or in the very least, certain
ones. Most everything
from
> > Apple post iMac (including the iMac itself)
is interesting
already.
>
> I would argue that anything pre iMac from Apple is also quite
> interesting. There are lots of quirks and nightmarish in some of
the
> middle year Macs that keep the architecture
interesting. There's
also a
I don't agree that crap makes something classic, vintage, or worth
preserving.
'Classic' and 'vintage' are marketing weasel words.
A serious computer conservator wants to preserve all the warts and bugs
of the original.
> interesting. It would be cool to try to build a
complete collection
of
> ALL the Macs in their original configurations. (I
have kept one of
my
SE/30's
'stock' for that purpose.)
Where shall I send the pallet to?