The 25 Most Important PCs in History

[Boudicca]

They probably put the office dimwit to google for museum pieces, and wrote the copy thinking that the Amiga was still SOTA from all the forums and press

Interesting footnote. Of all those historic computers, I don't think any of them still being written for and used daily by 1000s of people.

One thing can be said for the Amiga its not an Antique Computer just yet

[Boudicca]

Maybe it is just because the old Amiga hardware is still important today and therefore not "an important computer in history".:laughing:

Great minds think alike

[Boudicca]

This. If I could bring back one thing about the '80s, it would be the absolutely enormous variety of significantly different computers available to the public.

Yeah bring back "Incompatible", lets revel in the lack of standards.

That's when you didn't choose to be different, it was forced upon you.

[Boudicca]

Microsoft office would like to talk to you about that, but it can't because you're not running the same version.

Microsoft were still a tiny software house out of Albuquerque. M$ Office wasn't even in the Roadmap, even if they had a road map.

While Taiwan standardised, IBM then Compaq bastardised as did Apple and the rest.

I never said the road to compatibility was solely a x86 affair, but the 8bit Wild West that was the 80's wasn't good yet it did sort the men from the boys.