GOPHER

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Computer Collector E-Mail Newsletter wrote:

> I know this has been discussed before, but here's my two cents... the 10-year
> rule is (in my opinion) an obsolete metric.  I really think we should be using
> at least a 15-year or 20-year metric.
>
> A 15-year-metric would put "vintage" at 1989 -- Windows, but not yet 3.0; and
> certainly not the Web.
>
> A 20-year-metric would put "vintage" at 1984 -- the Mac's debut, etc.
>
> Otherwise, we'll soon be talking about Pentiums!

But you'll miss the BeBox, among others, plus all those cool handhelds you
collect will be off-topic :(

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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