8 Oct
2002
8 Oct
'02
9:57 p.m.
By the strict 10 year rule, Tandy 1000's are on-topic. I bought the
first one the day before Thanksgiving 1985 on a Tandy Business lease for
$2700. Included a second floppy drive, CM-4 monitor, a DMP-130 printer,
Star Accounting Partner software and Friday, a simple data base program
by Ashton-Tate. Friday was a menu driven program that generated
dBase-II code. I still have the disks. I ran a company off the two
floppies until late 1986, when the price of a 10mb hard drive dropped to
about $800.
My 2000 is even older.
James
http://webpages.charter.net/jrice54/classiccomp2.html
Zane H. Healy wrote:
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Would anyone
object to adding an official 'cool factor clause' to the
10-year rule? We already sorta have that now, where a newer computer (e.g.
mid-90s SGI MIPS) has sufficient cool factor that we're ok with it. All we
need is a concept of negative cool factor, so that some computers (e.g.
Packard Bell PC) might never be on-topic.
In reality, this isn't any more ambiguous than what we already have. The
other option would be to develop some sort of unit for classicity and set a
threshold above which a machine is on-topic.
Jeffrey Sharp
I for one obviously don't have a problem with having an official 'cool
factor clause'. After all, then my DEC PWS 433au running OpenVMS would be
ontopic, as would systems such as BeBox's and the like.
I think as a whole, systems that aren't x86 based, or Mac's that are less
than 10 years old have been considered to have suffecient 'coolness factor'.
Besides, about all that seems to cover is UNIX workstations, and OpenVMS
systems.
Also, I think 'custom built' x86 systems that have been specifically built
to emulate older hardware, such as a PDP-10 are almost ontopic.
Zane