{"id":759,"date":"2011-04-19T08:30:04","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T13:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=759"},"modified":"2011-04-19T09:09:38","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T14:09:38","slug":"rare-computers-of-the-1990s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/759\/rare-computers-of-the-1990s","title":{"rendered":"Rare Computers of the 1990s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2011\/04\/17\/15-amazing-computing-rarities-of-the-1990s\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/technologizer\/1990_rarities_small.jpg\" alt=\"15 Amazing Computing Rarities of the 1990s\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have a secret: computer history didn&#8217;t stop at the end of the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>This fact may seem obvious to long-time <em>VC&#038;G<\/em> readers, because this site&#8217;s working definition of &#8220;vintage&#8221; in the computer and video game realm is 10 years old or older.<\/p>\n<p>But many vintage computer sites you&#8217;ll find out there don&#8217;t bother to cover PCs made in the 1990s &#8212; that era of utter and almost absolute IBM PC-clone dominance &#8212; mostly out of disgust for the bland uniformity of that decade&#8217;s computer offerings.<\/p>\n<p>Well, It&#8217;s time to look beyond that self-imposed glass wall and peer into a decade that was not nearly as devoid of interesting alternative machines as some people think.<\/p>\n<p>My most recent slideshow on Technologizer, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2011\/04\/17\/15-amazing-computing-rarities-of-the-1990s\/\" target=\"_blank\">15 Amazing Computing Rarities of the 1990s<\/a>,&#8221; is dedicated to that task.  It takes a good look at 15 rare and unusual machines that the 1990s made.  I hope you enjoy it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a secret: computer history didn&#8217;t stop at the end of the 1980s. This fact may seem obvious to long-time VC&#038;G readers, because this site&#8217;s working definition of &#8220;vintage&#8221; in the computer and video game realm is 10 years old or older. But many vintage computer sites you&#8217;ll find out there don&#8217;t bother to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}