First post, by rishooty
This is my own continuation of this thread here: When is a computer considered vintage and/or retro. Especially because it's been a decade since.
So I mentioned in my thread in Marvin that the area of PA I plan to move to has a vintage computing community. Namely, Kennett Square has their own branch of Vintage Computing Federation. It was just recently opened, I think a year or two ago: https://www.kennettclassic.com/.
I just visited the other day and I was immediately impressed! I adored every square inch of it. Even better, he's far more generous than NJ's branch in terms of what he accepts and displays: he takes machines up to 1995! Original Pentium+MMX is my area of interest anyway. Shortly after I opened my mouth and shared what I know, he asked me if I wanted to volunteer, attend events, come in to build/fix things, etc. This is something I've only ever dreamed of. Such a facility or community never existed near me, much less one that even remotely ventured into the stuff I grew up with.
Now don't get me wrong, 80's and early 90's stuff is most certainly cool. But I get most excited about Windows 95 and the 3D Graphics Arms Race, the dawn of the modern internet, etc. I also have an idea to host LAN party events with real machines. Which I can most certainly still do, but I'd still be rather limited in what I can use.
So my question is, what do you think of his 1995 cutoff point? Do you think it's fair? Should I be thankful that he even goes that far at all? Or do you think I could convince him to nudge that limit a bit, especially if I offer to handle the builds and displays?
Personally, I think he needs to nudge it up to 1996 at least so that at least we can cover the 3D Arms Race and the N64 as a side display for his silicon graphics machines. If it were up to me however, I'd say 1998 to squeeze the voodoo 2 SLI in or 1999 to cover PowerVR and Dreamcast. What are your thoughts?