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On 09 Apr 2025 at 09:24p, Fernando Miculan pondered and said...
 
 FM> Hola Grant!
 FM> 
 FM> El martes 08 de abril de 2025, Grant Weasner le escribi¢ a Fernando
 FM> Miculan:
 FM> 
 FM>  GW> I think 8080, 8088, 268, 386, 486 are there. I was happy to hear that
 FM>  GW> i568 core 1 is there, just because I have one of them :).
 FM>  GW> My wife looked up the price of the motherboard for the Dell Optiplex
 FM>  GW> GMT 5133, and that alone was $179. I'm not trying to sell my old
 FM>  GW> gear,
 FM>  GW> but some day I'm sure she will have to deal with my pile of old
 FM>  GW> computers.
 FM>  GW> I really wish I had some of my old system, 8088, 386, 486, apple IIc.
 FM>  GW> The 386dx I had, I upgraded to the 486, so really I had the case of
 FM>  GW> the 386dx with a 486 in it.
 FM> 
 FM> Of course!. The 586 and Pentium would also be considered classic
 FM> computers. Actually, one sets the boundary between what's classic and
 FM> what's not according to their own perspective. :)
 FM> Sorry, but my english is not good. :(
 FM> 
 FM>  Saludos!
 FM>  Fercho.-


I would consider a "classic computer" to be any computer which is, both in
terms of hardware and software, quite different to what is running today, and
is able to run old hardware and software which modern computers cannot.  So I
wouldn't consider my old desktop computer from 2009 "classic" as its not
really that different to computers today, but the DOS PC's, which can run
Windows 98, DOS, OPL3 midi and the like are, because they can do things new
computers can't.

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