First post, by brostenen
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I can see it happening, just a little at a time. The type of computers that are rated as retro or vintage.
A lot of post recently, are post P-II/P-III stuff, socket 478/775 and other stuff like that.
Let me explain....
It is roughly around 15 years since socket 478's are introduced to the publich.
486's up to P-II's are getting rarer and rarer. And in some cases not possible to purchase.
On the danish online trading site (all type of stuff, not just computers), IBM 486's are appearing ones or twice a year.
Even 775 single cores are sold as old/retro computers. Well....
And to mention one's again. Posts regarding socket 478 and up, are getting more recent here on vogons.
Not that it is a bad thing, just that I can see that people having 80's/90's computers as a hobby are getting less active.
Anyway.... The time for splitting some sub forums into a type of pre/post-80's/90's or similair thing, might be right
in the year 2015 (perhaps 2016).
I do not know if my thoughts are right on this, it is just how I see it, and how I feel the state of vintage/retro stuff
is heading at this point. On the other hand.... People that are using pre pentiums, are not bringing this up.
What do you guys think about the signs that I see, regarding a shift in what is considered retro/vintage.
And what do people think is about to happen in the future? Topic's on Vogon's. Choice of hardware for retro computing,
price on items sold online? Just everything regarding this "shift" in retro computing.
Are the hipster's and those looking for a quick buck, beginning to look into old stuff?
Or are we who used computers in the 80's left to our self, and those who were children in the 00's taking up
retro computing, using what they had as "the shit" back then?
What's going to happen? Is the speed of the tech industries just too blazing fast?
Don't eat stuff off a 15 year old never cleaned cpu cooler.
Those cakes make you sick....
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