YADA10YR (Yet Another Discussion About the 10 Year Rule)

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Thu Sep 4 11:27:00 2003

It has been a while since we've gone through this again, but this has to
be probably the 8th time...

On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Tillman, Edward wrote:

> Has anyone actually tried to scale "on-topic" into something we can wrap our
> arms around? Once upon a time, I was told that any platform carrying a
> version of Windows was off topic. What of my DEC SL486DX with DOS 5.0,
> WIndows 3.1 and Office 4.0? The DEC manufacturer's tag clearly shows a
> manufacture date of 1991 (so did some of the files I cleaned out of it...).
> A DEC recovery service tag also clearly shows a complete overhaul in 1993.
> Is it on-topic by year of manufacture, but off-topic because of its onboard
> applications? What applies? What doesn't?

The bottom line is this: do you really want to trudge through a bunch of
boring discussions about PCs and Windows?

I certainly do not.

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