Historical relevance of common clone PC was Re: YADA10YR (Yet Another Discussion About the 10 Year Rule)

From: Tothwolf <tothwolf_at_concentric.net>
Date: Fri Sep 5 03:00:01 2003

On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Bob Shannon wrote:
>
> > I don't see much classic potential in a Geo Metro, no matter how old
> > it gets. Same for any clone PC thrown together from off-the shelf
> > parts, or even a brand-name 'me-too' PC.
>
> Actually, at some point in the future, common (for today) PC clones that
> were built from parts by individual users will be very historically
> relevant as examples of the time when PC's became a commodity!

And maybe those "Sams" 386-486 computers that were sold as part of those
learn-to-repair PCs courses will become highly collectible ;)

-Toth
Received on Fri Sep 05 2003 - 03:00:01 BST