28 Aug
2006
28 Aug
'06
11:16 a.m.
Am 28 Aug 2006 13:32 meinte Evan Koblentz:
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The way I see things you need a bridge between the present and the
distant past to
get younger people interested in the hobby. Having a drop
dead cutoff at the first Intel 80x86 is only going to kill new blood from
joining because that is all they have ever used at this point. If you start
collecting 286/386 machines and join this list to talk about them the older
topics will sooner or later spark interest in something older and different.
Keeping 286/386 topics off the list will just keep people away who
eventually might have started collecting the older items they knew nothing
about at the time they joined. Why bother preserving anything when this list
and the knowledge contained here is just going to vanish after the last
pre-Intel collector dies. A serious problem indeed. My personal opinion is that
classiccmp's format
itself of using a plain email list is a big part of the obstacle our hobby
will soon face, re: our breed becoming extinct, if we're already on the
endangered list. For the most part I strongly prefer the simple email list,
and I think most people here agree. But communities like the web forum at
www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum and the group blog at
http://community.livejournal.com/vintagecomputer/ are growing faster than
classiccmp, at least to my perception. Why?
I see your point - but than again, using a nice windows based, mouse
klickable mailer that sorts all lists out, flags certain topics and
does all the housekeeping in conjunction with an easy to use mailman
run list, I must realize that we are already way down the road into
decadence. And no, your self sacrifice of using Outlook doesn't make
it right again. we are doomed.
Serious, CC* is like mainframe business at all. Just because the small
stuff (aka the WebFurumStuff) is growing to higher numbers doesn't make
us obsolete - it's just the other way around - in mainframe world has
never been as large as today, and it's growing (while the micro had
lost it's tripple digit growth).
So, don't make the same mistake like so called 'insiders' in the 80s
that tried to tell us /370 is dead, and we're just dinosaurs where
the head is so far away, that the nerves just need a few years to
transmit the news...
H.
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