YADA10YR (Yet Another Discussion About the 10 Year Rule)

From: TeoZ <teoz_at_neo.rr.com>
Date: Thu Sep 4 14:39:00 2003

Well if there is a 10 year rule that would mean anything from mid 1993 and
earlier, which catches alot of the commodity PC era almost up to windows 95.
Everybody here has a special era they collect and have knowledge of, thats
the reason I joined the list. As newer and younger people join the list I
would assume the focus would change to newer equipment. If you want to keep
this list from moving into the newer machines then you probably want to have
a specific dateline of what is on topic and what is not. This would keep
people from joining and talking about a class of machines that most users
dont care about.

 I personally dont care much about the early 90's intel pc architecture, but
I do care about the addons that pertain to gaming (classic sound cards,
video cards, memory managers, etc.) same with the early 8 bits and later 16
bit home computers (c64, Amiga 500/1200, Atari 800/ ST, Apple II). I also
get into early macs (IIfx, 840av, 950 aws, a few PCI macs) some for their
architecture and some just because the video capture hardware I am
interested in run on those machines.

Most people hate hearing the common questions repeated over and over, but if
you just direct those people to places where they can get their feet wet
they will probably learn enough to get into that particular equipment and
come back with some really good discusions down the road. It keeps any list
from stagnating because sooner or later the old members will have talked
everything to death.
Received on Thu Sep 04 2003 - 14:39:00 BST