[vcf-midatlantic] Ages of PC based software

[Bill Degnan]

Vintage means "of a particular era" so vintage 2000's OS is Windows 98/ME,
WIndows NT/2000.  Otherwise you're just chasing a year and each year
"vintage" is whatever that particular year minus 30 is.  Which to me is
silly but everyone insists (since the dawn of "vintage computing") to
bracket a range a dates around "vintage computing" which then elicits the
800 peanut gallery responses about what everyone thinks vintage computing
is and it goes around and around and around and around and around.

At least consider there has to be a better way.
Bill

On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 4:22 PM Gregg Levine via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

> Hello!
> I am again trying one of my blue sky ideas, one to work on between
> right now, and again of the next repair weekend. That will be onsite.
>
> Would any of you good people remember the time period for a
> representative OS for when we can call it a Vintage Operating system?
> Last time I checked it was 1995.
>
> No velociraptor, he is visiting relatives in California, and Oregon and WA.
> -----
> Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
> "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
>