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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
*"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
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.
We're planning to show one 386 in the new museum, because young people need to learn about Windows 3.1. Sure we all laugh about it now, but 3.1 was a HUGE part of computer history.
On 3/11/2016 11:40 AM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
We're planning to show one 386 in the new museum
I personally think it would be cool to show an evolution of "commodity" PC history. Easily, it can be done with an example of a clone motherboard from each generation from XT to current, with some description of the different expansion bus styles 8bit/16bit ISA (EISA), VLB, MCA, PCI, etc, the approach to CPU/RAM, PS from AT-ATX etc. Maybe with an example of card and ram types, hard drives etc. This would be not only historically relevant but also anyone who is into computers now at any age can relate to it, and see the evolution. Could be a great side exhibit or wall hanging. While some may say there's no personality to PC stuff, there's still computing history to be shown.
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