26 Oct
2004
26 Oct
'04
2:44 p.m.
From: ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk
Hi
Maybe it should be based of if a person in their right
mind might actually use that machine for day to day business,
it should be excluded. Of course this might very from person
to person. Anyone silly enough to use an old Altair for day
to day work shouldn't post questions to the list.
Simple.
Dwight
If we are going to re-adjust the number of years
to include/exclude,
then let's just scrap the entire concept of a fixed number of years,
and declare that classic computers ran until August 10, 1981 (the
day before the IBM PC announcement).
And thus exclude some true classics, like the HP Integral and PERQ 2T4
Much as I hate to exclude a particalar type of machine, maybe we should
just say that a machine is not classic if a substantially similar machine
is still mainstream, and thus has support available elsewhere. That
would, I think, cut out most Pentium-based machines (but would arguably
still include PC/XTs, etc).
-tony
26 Oct
26 Oct
3:03 p.m.
to person. Anyone silly enough to use an old Altair
for day
to day work shouldn't post questions to the list.
Simple.
Dwight
...and that crazy person might be the most qualified to _answer_ Altair
questions.
Quit being so doom and gloom fer chrissakes. I've been on this list for
many years and I've YET to see a flurry of windows questions. We scare
the crap out of the average windows user -- they're not going to descend
on the list asking for help any time soon.
g.
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Proud owner of 80-0007
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3:05 p.m.
>> Maybe it should be based of if a person in
their right
>> mind might actually use that machine for day to day
>> business, it should be excluded. Of course this might very
>> from person to person. Anyone silly enough to use an old
>> Altair for day to day work shouldn't post questions to the list.
>> Simple.
Then if the inverse would also be true. If a person does NOT consider a
Machine to be suitable for day-to-day work, it WOULD be eligible. Many on
this list [but not me] consider current WinTel machines to suitable for
anything. This would then make that machine valid for posting questions on
the list. Not likely to happen since the person whould be be "authorized" to
post on said machine is unlikely to even own one.
3:24 p.m.
Rumor has it that Dwight K. Elvey may have mentioned these words:
Hi
Maybe it should be based of if a person in their right
mind might actually use that machine for day to day business,
it should be excluded. Of course this might very from person
to person. Anyone silly enough to use an old Altair for day
to day work shouldn't post questions to the list.
Oy, now I'm vying for grumpy ol' Fred's title of king curmudgeon.
Not to sound like a complete jerk, but that's one of the more foolish ideas
I've heard yet!
If that's the case, I'd have to go; and I've been here longer than most...
I suppose my 21-year-old Tandy Model 100 isn't actually capable of real
work according to your metric?
[[ not to mention that there's new hardware being designed for it to
upgrade it to onboard 2M RAM and 2M Flash ROM... Or the TPDD emulator now
available for PalmOS serial devices for more portable storage for the Model
'T's... ]]
Go check out Bitchin100 sometime:
http://www.bitchin100.com/
Or Club100 (still going strong after 21 years:)
http://www.club100.org/
=-=-=-=-=
BTW, I would say the opposite: If people can still do what's considered
"useful work" nowadays with an Altair, he should be voted "king of the
list" -- or would that be Tony already? ;-)
IMHO, YMMV, IANAL, JWTFDYTTRM, and all that jazz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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6:18 p.m.
Oy, now I'm vying for grumpy ol' Fred's
title of king curmudgeon.
Actually, I was NOT serious about the August 10, 1981 suggestion.
I like hearing about ANY interesting machine, even current ones
(although most of the interesting ones were long ago).
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com
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