Housing collections

[Doc Shipley]

Tony Duell wrote:
>>I'm with you.  The "ten year rule" is crap -- there, I've said it.  It's 
>>not even enforced anyway, since people here would have no problem 
>>talking about SGI Indigos or BeBoxen or DEC Alpha machines or similar 
>>stuff, and that's all newer than 10 years old, or just barely.
>>
>>I think the 10-year "rule", if there is to be one, should only apply to 
>>wintel boxes.  I believe that's the spirit of the rule anyway.
> 
> 
> Just out of curiousity, apart from obvious off-topic stuff (like 'please 
> fix my modern Windows PC'), has the 10 year rule ever been strictly 
> enforced? I think I've seen plenty of threads about machines that are 
> strictly too new to be mentioned here, but which are interesting enough 
> that nobody cares

   I've come to believe that the only real "10-year rule" strictly 
enforced is thr one that decrees that every 75 days or so, we have an 
extended discussion about the 10-year rule.


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