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Re: Vintage Computer Society
- Subject: Re: Vintage Computer Society
- From: mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)
- Date: 30 Jul 2004 16:29:52 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
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Sean Fahey wrote:
<snip>
>My point, is that the vintage crowd is coming full circle. We all used to
>meet together, then went our seperate ways as we specialized and platforms
>grew in popularity.... now, we're consolidating again.
When it got started, the early adopters were all hobbyists and
enthusiasts.
Then as computers became popular, the early community was
swamped by the "users" who wanted to know what "RS-232"
was. Eventually they didn't even care as long as they could
do word processing and send email.
Now, as the early computers become "esoteric", the people who
are interested in them are the same hobbyists and enthusiasts
who first signed on.
Mainline computing has become ubiquitous and banal--about as
exciting to users as a TV set.
-michael
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