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The 25 Most Important PCs in History
« on: February 11, 2011, 04:52:51 PM »
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Re: The 25 Most Important PCs in History
« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2011, 05:00:51 PM »
How lame the Apple III and a couple of nondescript IBM-PC clones make it... Yet there is no ZX80 or Amiga... How very very lame :(
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Re: The 25 Most Important PCs in History
« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2011, 05:04:51 PM »
No spectrum either.

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Re: The 25 Most Important PCs in History
« Reply #3 on: February 11, 2011, 05:08:14 PM »
@runequester & bloodline: perhaps Sir Clive SINCLAIR is banned!
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Re: The 25 Most Important PCs in History
« Reply #4 on: February 11, 2011, 05:09:18 PM »
Now this is the kind of shit that really pisses me off. Linear minded dolts pure and simple. No TI-99's either. Atari ST should have even made an appearance as well as one of those British offerings like the Sinclair/Spectrum.

And "important" my ass. That Exidy machine was important? They've got to be kidding. The baby steps the IBM PC took every few years were hardly significant either. Yay, so here's the first PC to come pre-built with a hard drive. Yay.

Apple III  :laughing:

I do not recognize the importance or accuracy of that article at all, but it was nice to see an Altair and PET make an appearance.
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Re: The 25 Most Important PCs in History
« Reply #5 on: February 11, 2011, 05:10:57 PM »
What d'ya expect it's from a PC website what would anyone who hangs around or posts on a PC site know about the history of computers... :)

Put it this way if a PC user can't get the thing to work straight out the box (or even manage to open the box) they're stuffed until an adult helps them out... :lol:
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Re: The 25 Most Important PCs in History
« Reply #6 on: February 11, 2011, 05:17:31 PM »
Yeah. It's nice to see more love for the Kenbak-1, but how the hell many PC clones do you need on a list?
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Re: The 25 Most Important PCs in History
« Reply #7 on: February 11, 2011, 05:24:23 PM »
No Amiga? Good, because it's miles ahead of the 25 computers listed :)
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Re: The 25 Most Important PCs in History
« Reply #8 on: February 11, 2011, 06:24:06 PM »
Maybe it is just because the old Amiga hardware is still important today and therefore not "an important computer in history".:laughing:
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Re: The 25 Most Important PCs in History
« Reply #9 on: February 11, 2011, 06:24:28 PM »
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 ;)
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Re: The 25 Most Important PCs in History
« Reply #10 on: February 11, 2011, 06:25:27 PM »
Quote from: lsmart;614876
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 ;)
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Re: The 25 Most Important PCs in History
« Reply #11 on: February 11, 2011, 06:52:11 PM »
I think the journalist doesn't have a clue what so ever about any of the entries listed. Just writes what's expected for the moment... so boring.
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Re: The 25 Most Important PCs in History
« Reply #12 on: February 11, 2011, 08:13:36 PM »
Apparently preemptive multitasking is not considered a milestone.
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Re: The 25 Most Important PCs in History
« Reply #13 on: February 11, 2011, 08:48:34 PM »
To my mind, the History of the personal computer ended when the ibm pc was introduced. ;-)
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Re: The 25 Most Important PCs in History
« Reply #14 on: February 11, 2011, 09:08:14 PM »
hah, certainly consumer choice largely ended.

It blows my mind how many computers existed in the 8 bit era, each with significant software libraries of their own. Spectrum, The commodore and atari machines, msx, amstrad cpc, bbc micro, undoubtedly more stuff I am forgetting about :)

Move up a bit and we are mostly down to amiga, atari, ibm-clones and mac's.

And today, you can pick between a PC running windows, a PC running mac os, and a PC running linux.
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