10 year rule

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>>>>> On the other hand, especialy you may agree that almost any kind of 94ish
PDA is vintage from todays view. Isn't it?

Yes, as no one (who is sane) uses a Newton or HP200LX for day-to-day business.

LOL, that kind of comment nearly got me attacked at the "10th anniversary of
the Newton" celebration at MIT last year.  For safety I avoid the HP200 mailing
list entirely.  :)

--- Hans Franke <Hans.Franke at siemens.com> wrote:

> Am 17 Nov 2004 8:17 meinte Computer Collector E-Mail Newsletter:
> > --- Ladyelec at aol.com wrote:
> > > Why not make it :
> > > 10 years: Vintage
> > > 20 years: classic
> > > 25 years: antique 
> > > or something similar to that?
> > > Isa
> 
> > The terms are too similar, people will just get more confused.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> > All I intended to do when I started this discussion topic was to point out
> the
> > obsurdity of considering things like the Web and Pentiums as "vintage" (or
> any
> > other synonym).  But then others observed back that I was being
> short-sighted
> > -- if you ignore that actual age, "vintage" just means "anything considered
> > obsolete by the mainstream," and that's a good enough answer for me.  But I
> do
> > think that 15 years, not 10, is a better divider between what's just "old"
> and
> > what's truly vintage.
> 
> Well, the important part was to get the off the actual stuff.
> Everything else is hard to do just by years. Shure, a 1994 PC
> might be about where you still may use it, and more important,
> might not look interesting at all from a colectors view. On
> the other hand, especialy you may agree that almost any kind
> 0f 94ish PDA is vintage from todays view. Isn't it?
> 
> In fact, for VCFe the same 10 year limit is enfoced (exempts
> need very good reasoning). Everythin below is NADA, everything
> above up to everyones own judgement. So, I'm expecting PCs to
> show up soon.
> 
> Gruss
> H.
> --
> VCF Europa 6.0 am 30.April und 01.Mai 2005 in Muenchen
> http://www.vcfe.org/
> 
> 


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