What about PDA's, such as the Palm family - would they go in this category?
For sure, I would say any of the PalmOS ones would certainly be considered vintage. Even a few of the first gen smart phones would be considered vintage by now, like my IBM Simon ;-)OK, can they all be considered "vintage" - now that their function has mostly be taken over by mobile phones?
I had a lot of PDA's back in the day, from original Palm, to Palm III, HP Jornada, and some PalmOS phones like Kyocera 6035, Kyocera 7135, I would consider all those vintage these days too.I replaced my original Palm PDA with a Tungsten E many years ago & it remains my portable electronic memory, together with the desktop running under Windows 98SE on one of my PC's. I've had to replace the rechargeable battery twice & had a scare the last time as I thought the display logic had been damaged. Fortunately, after cleaning the pcb's, re-assembling carefully & resetting several times it booted up into the O/S & I could sync to the desktop to restore everything.
I also used my T3 for all appointments until recently, the PalmOS Calendar is in my opinion superior to every alternative.
OK, can they all be considered "vintage" - now that their function has mostly be taken over by mobile phones? .
...is proper use of the term.This is a Vintage 1984 Macintosh 128
...is not.Man, this PDA is so vintage!
"Vintage" refers to a specific year. I absolutely hate people when they use the word to generalize electronics that are otherwise old.
...is proper use of the term.
...is not.
Technically, "vintage" only makes sense in the context of wine anyway.
Whilst the derivation of the word "vintage" is to do with "vines" and "vintners" meanings change.
My 1993 GRiD 386 Palm system, maybe the first PDA? , MS-DOS 5.2 operating system