billdeg
Technician
Starting a new thread because I have a related but off-topic question.
First off, I was a little surprised to hear from those who answered that they listed so many "newer" systems in the x86 categories. Not sure if that's representative of this board in general...interesting. Indicates that there is a change in focus in this hobby here compared to 10 years ago. Maybe Apple people in particular just "have" and don't fix, I don't know
My mix of supported systems (powered on in the past two years and repairs attempted if necessary), by *time spent* not number of systems is listed below. The mean year of on-topic systems I have supported during this period is 1980 with a range 1959 to 1993. You can see it's pretty evenly split...
DEC - 10%
S-100 - 15%
CP/M (that are not S-100 or Tandy) - 5%
IBM PC Family and Clones (8086/286) - 12%
Newer x86 any make - 2%
Apple 7%
CBM / Amiga 20%
Tandy 15%
Atari 2%
Other micro 6%
Other non micro (that are not CP/M) 4%
Analog computers 2%
First off, I was a little surprised to hear from those who answered that they listed so many "newer" systems in the x86 categories. Not sure if that's representative of this board in general...interesting. Indicates that there is a change in focus in this hobby here compared to 10 years ago. Maybe Apple people in particular just "have" and don't fix, I don't know
My mix of supported systems (powered on in the past two years and repairs attempted if necessary), by *time spent* not number of systems is listed below. The mean year of on-topic systems I have supported during this period is 1980 with a range 1959 to 1993. You can see it's pretty evenly split...
DEC - 10%
S-100 - 15%
CP/M (that are not S-100 or Tandy) - 5%
IBM PC Family and Clones (8086/286) - 12%
Newer x86 any make - 2%
Apple 7%
CBM / Amiga 20%
Tandy 15%
Atari 2%
Other micro 6%
Other non micro (that are not CP/M) 4%
Analog computers 2%
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