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16. IBM PCjr (1984): Nicknamed the Peanut, the PCjr was decidedly big-ticket accustomed its similarities to the Commodore 64 and Atari systems. It came in two models-a 64KB 4860-004 at $670 and a 128KB 4860-067 at $1270. Anniversary offered blush CGW graphics, a 4.77MHz Intel 8088 proc, wireless keyboard, lightpen port, two ROM armament slots, two joystick ports, and abounding PC compatibility. Critics universally panned the chiclet-style keyboard, and gamers maintained their adherence to the Apple II.
15. Mac Carriageable (1989): With a hinged atramentous and white alive cast LCD screen, a disposable trackball for a mouse, abundant SRAM, a adequately accelerated cossack from beddy-bye mode, a SCSI approach that accustomed it to be acclimated as a harder drive, video out, and a low-power 16MHz Motorola 68HC000, Apple's actual aboriginal carriageable computer was advanced of its time. Unfortunately, it was neither ablaze in weight (16.5 pounds) nor a bartering success.
14. Commodore Plus/4 (1984): Commodore appear like 2,000 computers in about 5 years time. That's baffling. The Plus/4 was a home computer with a congenital software suite-word processor, spreadsheet, database, and graphs. It had 64kb of memory, a MOS 8501 proc, and a appealing snazzy-looking chassis. Unfortunately, Commodore 64 admirers alleged it the Minus 60. ‘Nuff said.
13. GateWay Destination (1996): Gateway's $4,000 PCTV was advanced of its time, so abundant so that it never absolutely awash that well. The arrangement came with a set of beleaguer speakers, a tuner card, and a 36" 640 x 480 CRT monitor. We yield the HTPC for accepted today, but in an era area Windows was still adequately crash-prone, a home amphitheater carve computer fabricated no faculty at all.
12. IBM PS/2 (1987): How ya' gonna' do it? PS/2 It! Or not. The Personal System/2 was IBM's bootless attack to achieve ascendancy of the carbon bazaar via a closed, proprietary architecture. IBM originally advised for OS/2 (get it?) to be the OS, but at the time of release, it wasn't ready. Consumers aghast en masse at IBM's angry authority play. But the arrangement alien several important new standards, including Micro Channel Architecture, the PS/2 interface, VGA connectors, and 3.5" floppies.
11. Sinclair QL (1984): The QL in the name was abbreviate for breakthrough leap, and with a Motorola 68008, 128KB of anamnesis (expandable to 640KB), LAN ports, two congenital ZX Microdrive band cartridges, and a congenital multi-tasking OS called QDOS, it absolutely seemed advance. Unfortunately, the Sinclair QL alien 5 months backward and was buggy abundant to doom it to failure…FOREVER.
10. Apple III (1980): It was about an Apple II advised for the business crowd, and was powered by an 8-bit 1.8MHz SynterTek 6502A processor. It aswell had 16-color high-res graphics, an 80-column affectation with top AND lowercase characters, and a numeric keypad. All of this amount amid $5,000 to $7,000, authoritative it outrageously big-ticket and berserk unpopular.
9. Go L Mach L 3.8 (never released): We're abashed to accept that Maximum PC got suckered into the advertising about Liebermann Inc's PC-on-steroids. The aggregation promised abandoned speeds and appearance that went way above the accompaniment of the art in 2003, including 5.0GHz systems, five-screen displays, abandoned cooling schemes, Solid Accompaniment Drives, and abstracts throughput speeds of 8GB/s. The aggregation went out of business in 2004, accepting never alien a individual product.
8. Apple Lisa (1983): In the words of The Arnold, Apple's aboriginal able at a GUI-based business computer was one animal muthableep. It was, however, a able apparatus for its time, with a 5MHz 68000 CPU, 1MB RAM, two 5.25-inch drives, a harder drive, and a cardboard calculator. Unfortunately, it amount $10,000. Success: denied.
7. Commodore 128 (1985): If you're a way-back Commodore geek, you were apparently aflame about the Commodore 128. It sported 128KB of memory, an 80-column display, and two committed processors-a 2 MHz 8502 and a Zilog Z80. (They didn't plan in tandem.) A committed C64 approach ensured 100% compatibility. Ultimately, however, the masses didn't wish a low-cost, business-oriented machine. We capital games, alarming music, and abundant graphics. We capital the Amiga.
6. Osborne Executive (1982): Adam Osborne's alleged 1980 carriageable awash decidedly well. The Osborne Executive? Not so much. As fable has it, the Executive played a absolute role in shutting down Osborne Computers. Once it was announced, computer retailers anon began cancelling orders for the Osborne 1. The aggregation declared defalcation afterwards in 1983. Forever after, the Obsorne aftereffect would accredit to a aggregation obsolescing an absolute artefact by pre-hyping the successor.
5. NeXT Computer (1988): Based on the Motorola's new 25MHz 68030 CPU and including 8MB-64MB of RAM, a 330MB harder drive and an 1120x832 grayscale display, Steve Jobs' NeXT base amount $10,000 a pop. It was aloof to a lot of and didn't advertise actual well. Despite its bound bartering success, NeXT played a cardinal role in history. Tim Berners-Lee acclimated a NeXT Computer at CERN as the world's aboriginal web server. And abundant of the Mac OS X ambiance is congenital on OPENSTEP's foundation.
4. Atari Falcon (1992): Technically called the Falcon030, the final computer Atari Corp produced embodied the ataxia that accept to accept existed at the aggregation during its final years. A 32-bit 68030 CPU in a 16-bit abstracts bus? FAIL. Well, at atomic it had a Motorola DSP56000. Atari canceled the Falcon in 1993 to focus on the, ahem, Jaguar. Ahem.
3. Coleco Adam (1983): Appear in time for the holidays in 1983, the Adam was bedeviled with issues. Defective band drives, an electromagnetic billow on startup that was able of adverse tapes or discs larboard in the system, and a ability accumulation that was amid in the printer. Hey, at atomic it played Colecovision games. Unfortunately, it didn't do abundant else. Returns dead the company, and even a newer Adam that amount beneath and offered a $500 scholarship for kids couldn't compensate.
2. Ability Mac G4 Cube (2000): Measuring 8 cubic inches and abeyant in an acrylic enclosure-bah, appealing G4 Cube and appealing G4 fanboys accomplish Hulk mad. Critics agreed-most argued that it was too expensive, didn't cover a display, and affliction of all, had a "manufacturing issue" that led to cracks in the fancy, contemporary case. We'll say no more.
1. Babbage's Aberration Engine (1822): Like so abounding added computer makers on this list, Charles Babbage was advanced of his time. WAY ahead. Unfortunately, top costs prevented the mathematician from acumen his dream of architecture a steam-powered automated apparatus that could compute ethics of polynomial functions. The London Science Museum did apprehend his dream, however. In 1991, application some of the aboriginal parts, scientists completed a alive adaptation of the aberration engine.
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