Re: We're #1! :-) PC World names Apple II Greatest PC of All Time.

["logjam" <grant@cmosxray.com>]

If you could do word processing with blinkin lights the Altair would
have had a better chance...  :(


Scott Alfter wrote:
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> - From Slashdot, I got this link:
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> http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,126692-page,14-c,systems/article.html
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> For the 25th anniversary of the IBM PC, they put together a list of the most
> influential computers of the last 30 years.  Some of the II's contemporaries
> made the list (TRS-80 Model I, Atari 800, MITS Altair 8800) and some of
> Apple's later products made the list (Mac Plus, PowerBook 100, 2nd-gen iMac,
> eMate), but the Apple II reigned supreme:
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>   The Apple II wasn't the first personal computer, or the most advanced one,
>   or even the best-selling model of its age.  But in many ways it was The
>   Machine That Changed Everything.  On all four of our criteria--Innovation,
>   Impact, Industrial Design, and Intangibles--it was such a huge winner that
>   it ended up as our Greatest PC of All Time.
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>   _/_
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