Yet another reason...

[Scott Stevens]

On Thu, 5 May 2005 12:31:57 -0400
"Computer Collector Newsletter" <news at computercollector.com> wrote:

> ...Why that "ten year rule" no longer applies: Java.
> 
> http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/05/05/HNjavaat10_1.html
> 
> I can already hear the moans of "hear we go again" but I figured this
> example is amusing enough... I recall that last time we sort of agreed
> that date alone is hardly what makes something "vintage".  I still
> concur.
> 

Oh, I dunno.  There's a certain folkloric amusement in collecting
examples of early Java hype.  It's kinda like looking back at old issues
of Mondo 2000 magazine.  Was there anything 'java' *except* hype for the
first few years?  All those vacuous early 'Java' books from the era when
common knowledge was that 'java is a mechanism for selling books and
magazine articles' will one day be collectable. 

I have a copy of 'Corel Office for Java' (it's just an executable:
COJ.EXE) that they put out as a beta-experiment back in the late 90's. 
I fired it up recently on a Pentium III system in Windows 2000 and it's
pretty snappy and nice.  Shouldn't have flopped, but there was a lot of
odd stuff happening back then...

This all detracts from what people on this list hold in common as
'interesting' though so I will shut up.