*"They literally ran out of space. They had my NeXT Slab, MEGA ST 2, 2 x IIGS and 2 x Apple IIs undeployed along with lots of other systems stacked in the corner."* Thus the dilemma: It's fine to be inclusive, but if there are limited resources to showcase these systems, the true vintage machines should not go by the wayside. That being said, I agree with including early PC era machines, but only up to the advent of PCI 1.0 (~1992), and even then, mainly to show the evolution of the bus architecture. After that, there is little point in showcasing technology that is commodity and barely changed from contemporary machines. On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Herb Johnson via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
The ones who grew up on PCs and not Ataris, Commodores and Early Apples.
They are here now. They are going to want to be represented....
For those who read-by-thread, I have comments in the thread "what no minis this year?" - Herb
-- Herbert R. Johnson, New Jersey USA http://www.retrotechnology.com OR .net