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Top 10 Personal Computers, Revised

Posted by michael on from the de-gustibus-non-est-disputandum dept.

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."

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  1. Classic Computers by xeno_gearz · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The Commodore 64 was fantastic when I first ran across it. It was the first computer that I recall any of my friends having. Unfortunately, my parents wouldn't think of buying a computer at the time (and I couldn't afford one being somewhere about 10 and all). I often would go to a friend's house and play on his family's computer and play games like Zork.

    Unfortunately, it never went much further than that. However, the inclusion of the Apple Macintosh in our school computer labs was a huge influence as that is when I first recall seeing a GUI like that.

    For those reasons, those computers will always remain classics for me and are definitely part of my top ten.

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  2. Apple newton by nuggz · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I don't like apple in general.
    I find their computers annoying, and hard to use, mostly unfamiliarity, and that the UI isn't very intuitive to me.

    But I really disagree with removing the Newton, that was an amazing piece of hardware, the first time I saw it, I was blown away, and it was already a few years old by then.
    I saw it, played with it, and thought "this is where computers are going for the public".

    I really think it was a landmark in computer history, it was just too recent for people to note the effect.