19 Jan
2010
19 Jan
'10
9:47 p.m.
* On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 08:46:25PM +0000, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
wrote:
Maybe, but maybe not. The 486 is 21 years old now, and not as easy to find as
one might expect. For comparison, when I first started collecting vintage
computers, the pdp-8/e was 22 years old.
I am
regularly offered 2+GHz Pentium-4 machines because it has
gotten around that I'm into "vintage computing". Scary.
I have to explain quite often that a 'vintage computer' does not mean a
486-based PC. -tony
-Seth