10 years

From: Ben Franchuk <bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca>
Date: Wed Oct 2 22:43:00 2002

William Donzelli wrote:

> I do not see the point of anything official, as most of the posts are to the
> lawless CCTALK list anyway.
>
> I would actually like to see the "official" cutoff pushed out to 20
> years, as 10 years just does not seem that long ago...

The whole point of the 10 year limit was to to prevent the
"Latest Golly-Gee Wizzbang computer from Netsoft-3456 cpu"
from taking up readers bandwith with topics like "Why autostart
programs don't work, if the powerbar is in the OFF position."
A classic computer is a CLASSIC computer regardless of age
as all computers were new sometime. While I like "front panel"
beasts I like to know what is out there rather than the classic
PC clone of today that may be worth keeping in the future.
Received on Wed Oct 02 2002 - 22:43:00 BST