What is vintage

Fred Cisin cisin at xenosoft.com
Sun Feb 25 21:23:13 CST 2018


On Mon, 26 Feb 2018, Doug Jackson via cctalk wrote:
> I know it has been discussed a billion times before...
> My personal measure has nothing to do with the 20 year rule - I use the
> introduction of the PC as the end of the Vintage era.  IBM made the
> computing industry standard and boring.
> Anything pre - 1982 is interesting, anything post 1982 is a boat anchor...
> (Duck)

I think that the PC/5150
(truly a "danger to itself and others", using another meaning of "5150")
was August 11, 1981.


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Grumpy Ol' Fred     		cisin at xenosoft.com


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