Fifteen Classic PC Design Mistakes

Harry writes "Once upon a time, it wasn't a given that PC owners should be able to format their own floppy disks. Or that ports should be standard, not proprietary. Or that it was a lousy idea to hardwire a PC's AC adapter, or to put the power supply in the printer so that a printer failure rendered the PC unusable, too. Over at Technologizer, Benj Edwards has taken a look at some of the worst design decisions from personal computing's early years — including ones involving famous flops such as the PCJr, obscure failures such as Mattel's Aquarius, and machines that succeeded despite flaws, like the first Mac. In most instances — but not all — their bad decisions taught the rest of the industry not to make the same errors again."

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Re:General trend

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It could be the fact that Microsoft is a pretty large and widely used producer of software that it's a common example. The topic at hand was about epic IT failures, and the parent presented an example from Microsoft. You however are fanboying under the AC sig simply because he referred to an MS product with critisism. It seems like you're the douche here, but then again you knew that before you clicked "Post as anonymous."