No doubt retro is a broad term, and perhaps it is reasonable for the term to follow the experience of the speaker. I have a reasonable collection of retro-hardw

No doubt retro is a broad term, and perhaps it is reasonable for the term to follow the experience of the speaker. I have a reasonable collection of retro-hardware, but it does span a wide time span. The oldest would be the Kaypro, Osborn, and a few other Z80 late 70s machines, following through with all of the key IBMs of the 80s (PC, XT, XT/286, AT, PS/2), plus a sampling of the Mac lines from the original 128K Mac up through a few Quadras, Amiga, Commodore, Atari, etc. For me they are all 'retro', but I tend to think of the interesting stuff to be the things from my childhood - so the Commodore, TI, Amiga, Atari, IBM PC, Televideo, etc. It is interesting to see the enthusiasm of people building 'retro' XP machine. For some of them it represents the platform they grew up with. For us old folks it is more like that OS we were using for work some time ago. I did just build up a reasonably authentic Pentium 100 machine in a configuration that was very close to the Pentium 100 machine I used when I worked at Intel during that processors release. Fun times.