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[CHips]

13 years later, should "Vintage" be redefined as technology before 1995 instead of 1982? Was there any particular reason to choose 1982?

I think that things of 199x can be considered vintage... Maybe the Pentium or Pentium Pro could be good thresholds.

[debs3759]

I imagine that Genna picked 1982 as the year the 80286 was first released. For a lot of collectors, vintage is anything older that that (ie 808x and earlier).

[Mixeur]

I think that Vintage category limit time should move within years.
For sure 286 & 386 can be considered as vintage now.

And if you oppose it to Modern category, then you may even extend it to beginning of the 2000s...