relative age

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Tue Oct 21 21:52:07 1997

<Wow! A high schooler who's into old computers? Unless there is a
<pre-pubescent teenager on this list, I think Daniel has the record as the
<youngest collector of old computers.


Frightening. ;-)

here are some numbers

If you are in highschool now:

-0 PCs are known as current

if highschool was x years ago:

1990 PCs and macs

1985 Apples, macs, Rainbows, PRO350s maybe some PCs

1980 s100, apple][, swtp, LSI11, micronova Microprocessor chips

1977 PDP-11, vax, nova Some LSI and bit slice

1971 PDP-8, PDP-10 TTL mostly, some utilogic and transistors
       FYI the main computers in the shuttle are this era technology.

1965 PDP-5 Transistors.

1960 First generation transistors, vacuum tubes

1952 first commercial machines, tubes

1947 prototypes, tubes and relays

If you were like me and did electronics as a kid following on to a career
then everything made from '64-65ish on was current at one time or another
to me. Then again I went to the NY worlds fair 1964/5!

Allison
Received on Tue Oct 21 1997 - 21:52:07 BST

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