I was born in late 1977. It was an era of bad music and worse cars. A “hottie” in 1977 was a recently blow-dried yabbo on his way to the disco in his Ford Mustang Cobra II.

With a top speed of 75 miles per hour, the Cobra II was sure not to muss your pretty little hair-do

My father, on the other hand, was born in the 50’s. He grew up on pop music when it still had some soul and backbone. Twenty years after the fact, the pop stars of my generation were just doing bad wedding party impressions of all the people who choked on their own vomit before my father had even dropped out of high school (well, gotten kicked out, actually, but that’s another story – he also claims to know nothing about the hand grenade).

While I can totally understand my father’s continued interest in, for example, the wide-tracking Delorean designed Pontiacs of the 60’s, and while I can understand the joy of listening to Jim Morrison tell off a group of fans, I don’t find myself getting quite so nostalgic about items from my own generation.

There’s something about the 1984 Dodge Charger that doesn’t speak to me. Even if it could speak, I imagine it would probably just say something like “Pack the Schlitz and hairspray, bro’ – let’s go off-roadin’ down by the river on our neon pink ATV! Yeah! Rock on!”

It’s been lame growing up in a generation that has nothing to show for itself but two decades of shame.

One cool thing we had going on, though, was the birth of modern personal computing. The Apple II, the IBM PC, and others popped up around about the time these other jokers were filling their AMC Gremlins with Tab on the way to see Motley Crue.

Anyway, following on the heels of my last post, I wanted to draw your attention to this site that’s been collecting and cataloging classic computers. It’s called the Obsolete Technology Website. They have photos, reviews, and even old ads from Back When.

This stuff is the classic rock of my generation.