A personal computer in somebody's house? Yeah right...YAWN!!!...Who the heck needs a computer in the house when we already have television and VCRs?...YAWN!!!...I bet you IBM and Microsoft go belly up in a year after this disaster...Who needs a PC when you can buy an Apple?...What the hell would somebody do with a personal computer?...Ha, ha, ha, a $3,000 paperweight...My scientific calculator is all the computing I need, thank you very much, and it only costed me $30...YAWN!!!...This "PC" thread has been posted seven times already, doesn't anybody know how to do a SEARCH!!...YAWN!!...I'm underwhelmed...Bill Gates, doesn't he look like a total geek? I bet he wears a bicycle helmet too...Does it come with a cup holder?...Unless it brings me a beer from the refrigerator, I ain't buying it...YAWN!...
Actually, now that I think of it, if the PC flopped, there could never be a FREE REPUBLIC in the first place.
The Apple II came out in 1977.
Keep tabs on the persons that bash innovation and technology. They are the supporters of those that have the power to destroy values. They are an important support for parasitical politicians (that's mainly how government got so BIG). Without their support the parasites would have to get real jobs.