On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 at 22:08, Zane Healy via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > Cindy, I’m curious, is there really a market for 8086/88, 286, and 386 > computers? What are folks using them for?
Judging from the FB "Vintage" Computer Club, yes, a small one. For millennial-age geeks, pre-32-bit computers are antiques. They _might_ just barely remember back to Win9x. So for them, a DOS machine is a voyage of discovery into some of the more arcane pages of history. The idea of computers or OSes that can't boot from CD blows minds. For them, only elderly historical kit has 3½" floppy drives. So yes, there is a little bit of demand, I reckon. Not highly commercial, though. -- Liam Proven - Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk - Google Mail/Hangouts/Plus: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven - Skype/LinkedIn: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 - ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053