YATYRD (was: PalmOS no more? :(

[Scott Stevens]

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 17:41:51 -0700 (PDT)
Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Scott Stevens wrote:
> 
> > > Yeah, but at some point computers from the post-1994 period will
be
> > > interesting, or in the very least, certain ones.  Most everything
from
> > > Apple post iMac (including the iMac itself) is interesting
already.
> >
> > I would argue that anything pre iMac from Apple is also quite
> > interesting.  There are lots of quirks and nightmarish in some of
the
> > middle year Macs that keep the architecture interesting.  There's
also a
> 
> I don't agree that crap makes something classic, vintage, or worth
> preserving.
> 

'Classic' and 'vintage' are marketing weasel words.

A serious computer conservator wants to preserve all the warts and bugs
of the original.

> > interesting.  It would be cool to try to build a complete collection
of
> > ALL the Macs in their original configurations. (I have kept one of
my
> > SE/30's 'stock' for that purpose.)
> 
> Where shall I send the pallet to?

If you have a time machine, load it into that.  There will be somebody
eagerly waiting at the other end fourty years from now.  I guarantee it.
 All that will have been 'preserved' are what were perceived as the
'good' bits by the casual hobbyists.