24 Nov
2009
24 Nov
'09
4:21 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 24 Nov 2009 at 23:45, Doug Jackson wrote:
Yes, we obviously need a 'vintagecomp' list for the older stuff (and maybe a
'veterancomp' for anything that's electro-mechanical :-)
I agree that the older stuff is often more interesting architecture-wise (and
Personally I work on the basis that 1982 is the
cutoff year for
anything interesting Anything newer is only interesting if it isn't
powered by Intel or AMD.
I'd take that back perhaps another 10 years to 1973. It's a little
boring seeing systems with fixed power-of-two word lengths, 8-bit
characters and predictable instruction sets, all implemented with MOS
transistors.
Go back to the 1950's and 60's and there were some really interesting
systems. One of the VC Foruum posters picked up a batch of old PC
boards--I noted that he had a card from a Packard Bell 250 in the
collection. An interesting machine, if there ever was one. from a user interaction point of view). Problem is that
few listmembers *have*
systems from that era, so I suspect that - whilst
there'd be some good
discussion - there wouldn't be a huge amount of activity...
cheers
Jules