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This has come up a lot in the past, and the best I’ve been able to come up with is that what is “retro” varies with every retro enthusiast. A couple of definitions that I’ve heard:
Yeah this is a hot debate in the Vintage Apple community as well. A lot of groups put the line at Intel Macs - anything PowerPC and older gets to count as vintage. That aligns with my interests but the first Intel Macs are soon 20 years old, and that cutoff is starting to make less sense if you look at what was accepted when the communities started out.
At this point personally I would personally consider anything from before Steve Jobs death as vintage Apple. Or at least anything from the Big Cats and before.