Reply 20 of 74, by BeginnerGuy
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Based on personal observation and responses from most everybody on this forum and others when the question comes up, and my own older family members. I would say the standard definition of "vintage" is a metaphor for "childhood" or "first experience" (for those old enough to have not used a computer early in life).
To me a vintage computer is an XT 286 (and clones), C64, etc.. Using that you can probably guess what decade my first PC experiences were contained in.
If I ask my father the same question you get anything from a PDP-11 up to an Apple II. Can you guess what decade he first encountered computers?
It's not perfect, but I think it's a nice general definition.
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