Top 10 Personal Computers, Revised

rebelcool writes "Dwight Silverman of the Houston Chronicle has revised his Top 10 PCs of all time, mainly as a result of this Slashdot story. He addresses many of the replies written to him wondering why X system wasn't on the list in Y position, but also chose to replace the Apple Newton with the Amiga A1000."

Comments

Re:Apple newton

[LordKazan]

You know what's funny about the Apple Newton, the guy that was one of the leading software developers for it (Steve Strong) went back to teaching computer science and math in high school after they eliminated the project and downsized.

I was truely blessed to have him as a professor. I generally dislike mac (now only because it's properitary hardware, OS/X is a very nice operating system). The newton didn't fail because of lack of ingeniuity, or bad coding. It was groundbreaking, and had insanely good programmers.

It was a device before it's time.
If you were to make a list of devices influential to hand-held computing the newton would be undeniably #1

Re:What about ...

[Zak3056]

The Amstrad 1512?

In the UK anyway, it was one of the big milestones in computing.

I hate to say "RTFA," but you should RTFA!

The author specifically mentions this point, that he writes for a local paper and not some international news source, and thus, OF COURSE his list is North American-centric.