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Title: PC World - 50 Top Electronics Devices
Post by: sdyates on April 03, 2007, 03:43:05 PM

The Amiga 1000 (37)

It's amazing what some consider top tech products. Others ont he other hand are truly amazing.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130207-page,9-c,technology/article.html

Title: Re: PC World - 50 Top Electronics Devices
Post by: orange on April 03, 2007, 03:49:08 PM

I got number 29. on list, HP LaserJet 4L, in '95. It was really good value for money comparing prices of other printers (cheapest). It works fine now, its max resolution is a bit small (300DPI) but fine for text.

Title: Re: PC World - 50 Top Electronics Devices
Post by: meega on April 03, 2007, 04:01:18 PM

"20. Microsoft Windows 95 (1995)
Yes, we know that plenty of Windows for Workgroups 3.11, Windows 98 SE, and Windows 2000 fans exist, but Windows 95 first brought us long file names, legitimate multitasking, and a dramatically improved GUI, which arguably represents the brief and final moment in time that Windows actually looked better than a Mac."

Innovative.

Title: Re: PC World - 50 Top Electronics Devices
Post by: Plaz on April 03, 2007, 05:07:43 PM

I don't recall win95 fondly at all. For my desktop it was the most crashy, data destroying version ever. I guess MS gets an E for effort and things did improve greatly with win98, but my company actually reverted back to win 3.11 only using win95 where the application had to have it. Later with the greatly improved win98, we moved on. Win95 maybe looked better than Mac, but sure ran far worse.

I see the voting for the A1000 isn't doing too bad so far. Lots of Mac fans voting though.

Plaz

Title: Re: PC World - 50 Top Electronics Devices
Post by: itix on April 03, 2007, 05:41:29 PM

Crashy or not Windows 95 was huge success. And I quite think crappy Win 3.x crashed more ;) Dont you remember numerous General Protection Faults it generated more or less randomly? :)

Title: Re: PC World - 50 Top Electronics Devices
Post by: ddniUK on April 04, 2007, 01:25:05 PM

[color=ff0000]VOTE AMIGA NOW!!!![/color][/b][/i][/u]

Title: Re: PC World - 50 Top Electronics Devices
Post by: mrmkl on April 04, 2007, 03:40:12 PM

Best tech products of all time, let's see...
1. Fire
2. Wheel
3. Steel
4. Steam engine
...
Or was this about electronic devices..
1. Valve electron tube radio
2. Looking-Radio (a.k.a Television)
3. Digital wrist watch (with LED display, manufactured by Commodore.)
4. NMT-mobile phone. One of the three things every yuppie should have: NMT, BMW and HIV.

Oh, the question was what's the best tech product to come out of the digital age?

From their list I voted Amiga, of course.
Most of the products on the list I don't recognise, and many of those I did recognise actually suck:
Doom, stupid IBM-PC game
Tetris, waste of time
Redhat, with PITA RPM-package system
Windoze 95a has the merit of not needing so much mem and MHz from IBM-PC as the later versions. NT4.0 needs a bit more, but is more stable.
Nintendo.. Kind of nice, actually...
But the ultimate sucker is Macintosh Plus, a bird box with non-multitasking "OS" and black and white display.