By the strict 10 year rule, Tandy 1000's are on-topic. I bought the
first one the day before Thanksgiving 1985 on a Tandy Business lease for
$2700. Included a second floppy drive, CM-4 monitor, a DMP-130 printer,
Star Accounting Partner software and Friday, a simple data base program
by Ashton-Tate. Friday was a menu driven program that generated
dBase-II code. I still have the disks. I ran a company off the two
floppies until late 1986, when the price of a 10mb hard drive dropped to
about $800.
My 2000 is even older.
James
http://webpages.charter.net/jrice54/classiccomp2.html
Zane H. Healy wrote:
>>Would anyone object to adding an official 'cool factor clause' to the
>>10-year rule? We already sorta have that now, where a newer computer (e.g.
>>mid-90s SGI MIPS) has sufficient cool factor that we're ok with it. All we
>>need is a concept of negative cool factor, so that some computers (e.g.
>>Packard Bell PC) might never be on-topic.
>>
>>In reality, this isn't any more ambiguous than what we already have. The
>>other option would be to develop some sort of unit for classicity and set a
>>threshold above which a machine is on-topic.
>>
>>Jeffrey Sharp
>>
>>
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>I for one obviously don't have a problem with having an official 'cool
>factor clause'. After all, then my DEC PWS 433au running OpenVMS would be
>ontopic, as would systems such as BeBox's and the like.
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>I think as a whole, systems that aren't x86 based, or Mac's that are less
>than 10 years old have been considered to have suffecient 'coolness factor'.
>Besides, about all that seems to cover is UNIX workstations, and OpenVMS
>systems.
>
>Also, I think 'custom built' x86 systems that have been specifically built
>to emulate older hardware, such as a PDP-10 are almost ontopic.
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> Zane
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