ten year rule.

From: Doug <doug_at_blinkenlights.com>
Date: Fri Jan 22 12:10:41 1999

On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Max Eskin wrote:

> I think that there is a slight difference. The PET or whatever is
> distinctive. If you sat down behind a startup screen of a PET, you could
> tell it's a PET (or at least a CBM machine). If you sat behind a startup
> screen of a PC, you could at most tell the company that made it, if you
> didn't miss the POST readout.

Let us not forget the *amazing* diversity of form in the PC market in the
last 10 years! I have laptops, pen-based machines, hermetically sealed
touchscreen boxes, handhelds, luggables, even credit card PCs that are
distinctly classics and generally less than even 10 years olds.

-- Doug
Received on Fri Jan 22 1999 - 12:10:41 GMT