What TeoZ says has happened/is happening to the Obsolete Computer Helpline, which now, IMHO, has lost most of its usefulness.
The classiccmp list seems fairly good at selfpolicing, however. It just sometimes gets off into too much YADA YADA YADA ;)
Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: Vintage Computer Festival [mailto:vcf_at_siconic.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 3:15 PM
To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: YADA10YR (Yet Another Discussion About the 10 Year Rule)
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, TeoZ wrote:
> 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
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Wrong. If the focus of this list ever changes to supporting old PCs then
it has effectively died. Old computers don't die. They just get older.
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