Herb, I have to agree. Booting DOS and watching Tandy, Wang, Zenith or HP appear in the copyrights is pretty much where the thrill ends. Unless, of course, you can find software ported to the platform and most of that is business-oriented. The fact that this hobby is less popular than baseball is probably not a big surprise. :-) In fact we may have taken up the hobby because we can't play baseball. Jim On Tue, 24 Oct 2017, Ethan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 13:08:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Ethan via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> To: Herb Johnson via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> Cc: Ethan <telmnstr@757.org>, Herb Johnson <hjohnson@retrotechnology.info> Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] IBM PC near-compatibles
can you point me to an exciting YouTube video of a PC non-compatible? What is exciting about a box with a keyboard, and a CGA or VGA or EGA monitor?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLnTAYMMLOc Only has 60K views versus the newer stuff which gets 250K+ quickly IIRC
(LGR has a lot of good videos)
It may be technically interesting if it has advanced graphics or faster speed (Compaqs draw some interest). It might be visually interesting if the case styling is unique. Those provide "interesting" attributes, but videos are not needed for those.
I see the videos as the gateway that the newer crowd is finding out about the retro stuff.
- Ethan
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