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[Sridhar Ayengar]

Tom Jennings wrote:
> Eh. Dump the 10 year rule and cut off at 1994.
> 
> I'm serious.  The computer world is not a flat, linear space from
> 1948 to present.  Somewhere after the beginning of the
> pc/appliance age, computers are qualitatively different.
> 
> The culture and tech is different too. You could more easily lump
> the mini and mainframe people together than the mini and pc
> people. When the computer-user count became in the millions it's
> simply not the same.
> 
> At some point post-1990 computers became near-pure commodity. It's
> like collecting toasters. There are intersting models, but not in
> the way that say 1960s or even 1970s are -- pretty much ANY
> computer from the 70s and even 80s is "interesting". Pretty much
> anything post-MSDOS is deadly dull -- with exceptions of course.
> 
> Consistency is for machinery.

My ES/9021 has a manufacture date sometime after 1990, I believe.  I 
think that still qualifies as "interesting enough".

Peace...  Sridhar