The 25 Greatest PCs of All Time (long)

Yahoo News/PC World ^ | Fri Aug 11, 4:00 AM ET | The Editors of PC World

[rzeznikj at stout]

Quite possibly. Though as far as I can remember, computers had mice--even the dinky Mac LC's with System 6 (and later, System 7) the grade school lab had...

Then again, I was born in '86...8^)

[antiRepublicrat]

My first, little brother of the 800 mentioned in the article:

Had 16K RAM, membrane keyboard, tape drive (as in audio casettes) and an external 300 baud modem.

[rock_lobsta]

The Sinclair ZX81 was ROBBED!!!


Shown with the 16K Ram Pack and the thermal dot-matrix printer.

My first computer. My dad and I put it together ourselves. Oh the memories!

[Echo Talon]

My first was the commode 64

[Still Thinking]

He didn't have 16MB of RAM in 1983! I'm sure he meant to say 16KB. There wasn't even a home OS (or processor with sufficient address lines) in 1983 that would have known what to do with 16MB.

[ezsmoke]

I know lol. My Commodore 64, Apple IIc and Intel 8088 had nowhere near 16MB.

The IBM PC of 1981 only had 16K of RAM. In 1983 the IBM PC XT had 128KB of RAM, 360KB floppy and 10MB hard drive. In 1986 the IBM PC XT Model 286 had 640KB of RAM, 1.2MB floppy drive and 20MB hard drive.

[LibertarianInExile]

My favorite:

IBM PS/2 Model P70

While PS/2-P70 was the official name, everyone called this machine the "Luggable." It came along around 1988 or so. An Intel 386 CPU, 4MB of memory and a 30MB hard drive, and a 3.5" diskette drive. The display, which folds out from the unit, was monochrome, with a weird orange color (like this.) IBM called it a "Gas Plasma Display." This system was "portable" if you had a strong back (it weighs about 20 lbs.) and a place to plug it in --- no batteries here!