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- 10goto10, on 07/25/2008, -1/+36Man, I hate to sound like a "No Computer X on this list? This list sucks!"-troll, but damn... No Commodore 64 on this list? This list sucks!
- websyndicate, on 07/25/2008, -4/+301. IBM Roadrunner
2. Apple Macintosh
3. IBM PC
4. Apple II
5. TRS-80
6. Xerox PARC Alto
7. Datapoint 2200
8. IBM System/360
9. ENIAC
10. The Difference Engine
websyndicate here just trying to save you time. Hack the Planet! - webkami, on 07/25/2008, -2/+22I have an idea...
A computer than can convert ten page slideshows into one clean page.
That would be revolution! - waydee, on 07/25/2008, -0/+17This exact article was on the front page last week, and just like last week it gets buried for not having a C64 or Spectrum in there.
- daPhoenix, on 07/25/2008, -0/+16No Commodore 64 or Amiga? Please.
- krytz86, on 07/25/2008, -3/+17why can't they put all of these on the same ***** page ??
- msaleem, on 07/24/2008, -1/+14You had me at "The Difference Engine".
- smacksaw, on 07/25/2008, -0/+11The c64 brought affordable colour computing to the masses. Having the TRS-80 is fine, but the c64 was far more important in that regard.
The Amiga 1000 should be on every list. Real multi-tasking, the way it handled sound/video with it's specialised architecture...the Amiga was incredibly important in what we realised computers could do and how we would design them to do those things. A fully robust UI which was graphical as well as command-line oriented, everything you enjoy about about Ubuntu or XP machine today is similar to the original vision of the Amiga almost 30 years ago.
The only reason I won't bury is because the slideshow doesn't require new pageloads. I want to reward good slideshows like this one. - reqage, on 07/25/2008, -0/+8Commodore 64 holds a special place in my heart. It was my first computer. I remember my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle game that had like 20 disk and a big code book to load levels.
- rockandrollmark, on 07/25/2008, -3/+10C'mon. this exact article was here last week
http://digg.com/tech_news/10_Revolutionary_Compute ... - smacksaw, on 07/25/2008, -0/+6Because AIO computers are not that important, nor revolutionary. It's called a laptop, and I think if we're using your logic, the Kaypro II is probably the most deserving AIO.
I don't hate Macs, but the iMac is nothing compared to any of these other computers. The most revolutionary thing the iMac did was make a really expensive computer a little bit cheaper by cutting out a lot of the stuff that makes real Macs so awesome (and awesomely expensive). - Sunscreen, on 07/25/2008, -0/+5Report this *****: abuse@digg.com
- grassiness, on 07/25/2008, -0/+5Buried.
They forgot the Zuse Z3 from 1941. Beats the ***** out of Eniac.
It was the worlds first *digital* computer, the first programmable computer and the first that used the binary system.
made in germany of course. - dnields, on 07/25/2008, -0/+4You had me last week when this was submitted:
http://digg.com/tech_news/10_Revolutionary_Compute ... - Sunscreen, on 07/25/2008, -2/+6Nice list, but where's the abacus?!
- mroberts, on 07/25/2008, -0/+3Growing up with Commodores I would like to have seen the C64 or Amiga on the list, but how can you omit the NeXT Cube which was absolutely instrumental in creating "today's online world"? Just ask Tim Berners-Lee.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee - ParadigmShift, on 07/25/2008, -2/+5Another computer list from some dumbass kid.
- wizbor, on 07/25/2008, -0/+3C64 Sound was superior to anything on the market. That alone should have put this machine on the list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64#Graphics ...
Amazing, versions of the SID sound chip our still around being used my some bands for the unique sound. - MacEnvy, on 07/25/2008, -0/+3Ad revenue.
- budtske, on 07/25/2008, -0/+3the Altair should be on this list, since it fired up the whole personal computer market.
The macbook air shouldent be on this list just like the IBM roadrunner, incremental progress in speed/size is what everyone should expect. Thats not revolutionary at all... - fyngyrz, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2They missed the seminal microprocessor machines; the Altair (8080), the Imsai (8080), and the SWTPC (6800). These were the machines that really put microprocessors in the home. They were bus-oriented, there were many plug-in cards that provided various extended hardware capabilities, all talked to serial terminals or could be configured to have on-board video cards and KB interfaces.
- schotty, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2Well the best audio chip available at the time, the SID.
Cheapest on the market in its class.
Ended up with the most software available due to its insane lifespan.
And as a former programmer on ye olde 8-Bit machines, I can tell you the C64 was the easiest system to code for. The Apples were okay, Ataris better. IBMs were chaotic, since moving to the x86 architecture was vastly different than the 6502 and such.
Quite frankly, Commodore in its foray into computing was more saavy and stocked with better engineering teams overall than the competition. Apple, Atari, and Commodore lost in the end due to poor management. Too bad, becuase I got my hands on some of the Atari 1040ST software and a couple computers and those were slick units. Too bad MS won out on this battle. - Ephraim2007, on 07/25/2008, -0/+210...pages to click thru
- ToadLeg, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2http://www.youtube.com/results?q=babbage%20differe ...
Here's what I think is the coolest part about it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_engine
"The difference engine and printer were constructed to tolerances achievable with 19th century technology, resolving a long-standing debate whether Babbage's design would actually have worked." - ClawBlade, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2Digging down due to lack of Altair, and ten image slideshow format.
Seriously, without the Altair, the apple II and most of the other PC computers wouldn't exist. - xtraa, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2Lol, they forgot the worlds first digital computer in an article about the 10 most revolutionairy computers.
It came out five years before the eniac and was much faster. Sorry americans :D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuse_Z3 - graemee, on 07/25/2008, -1/+3As much as I like the C64, still have a system, but I think the original PET was more important. It was the first consumer PC where you didn't have to add or assemble anything OR load the OS on to. You plugged in the power cord and turned it on - done. It too was priced well for the novice computer owner.
- dwright99, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2How many heads were up their asses in the 80's? Put Amiga on the list.
- robweber, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2no *****. I got kind of excited to see another one of these articles and then realized it was the same one from a week ago. I understand content will get recycled sometimes, but within a week, come on.
- GiggleStick, on 07/25/2008, -1/+3Well, they're not saying it wasn't a good computer by omitting it, but that it wasn't "revolutionary". Did it doing anything that wasn't already done by a previous computer?
- badtzmartin, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2yeah, actually:
- polyphonic sounds
- 16 colors
- more stuff I can't remember - Ratteler, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1...And i complained about no C64 there too.
- klitzbtc, on 07/25/2008, -1/+2That's so awesome they built The Difference Engine. I wonder if there's a video floating around of it in action?
- klitzbtc, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1Thanks! What an amazing machine.
- AdmiralAcbar, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1Damn, beat me to it.
- enterneo, on 07/26/2008, -0/+1I think I have seen this one before, wtf
- oldgal, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1That's an analog device with digital input.
- ggko, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1Not so bad in that it's just the slide-show panel that changes and not a whole new sets of ads that get loaded with each click.
- JakeW, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1You had me at "Computers"....
- Stavrosian, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1If you don't include either EDSAC or the SSEM (the Baby) then you have failed in writing this list. As the first digital stored program computers, I'd say they were pretty ***** important.
/nerd rage - graemee, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1Could be worse, like Frobes and refreshes the WHOLE page with each next. But it's still sucks.
- xtraa, on 07/25/2008, -1/+2Lol, they forgot the worlds first digital and programmable computer - in
an article about the 10 most revolutionary computers!?
It even came out five years before the eniac and was much faster.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuse_Z3
Sorry my fellow americans :D - kahlessreborn, on 07/25/2008, -1/+2I think this article has a strong American Bias what about the British Colossus?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer - cwa107, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1I was dumbfounded that the Amiga didn't make this list. It was the first true multimedia computer - high resolution graphics, able to display 4096 colors simultaneously, full pre-emptive multitasking, a color GUI that blew Apple's away and simply unprecedented animation capabilities. Truly this machine was 10 years ahead of its time. Just because Commodore couldn't market its way out of a paper bag, doesn't mean this computer was any less significant. Revisionists Apple lovers and Microsoft fans alike would love to pretend that the Amiga didn't even exist, but it did - it was powerful - and had it not been for the likes of Irving Gould and Medhi Ali, it's very likely many of us geeks would be typing on one today.
- antdude, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1$$!
- KeithBarrett, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1A story done by someone that did not grow up during the computer revolution. How can you possibly leave out Digital Equipment? The PDP-11 first commercial multi-user timeshare mini which made them the #2 computer company in the world and upended the IBM Mainframe? Then the VAX? Then the Alpha 64 bit CPU? And the Amiga - first home computer with dedicated custom multi-media chips and used to create Babylon 5? What about the Osborne - the first portable?
Inaccurate story. - pw378, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1Where is the PDP's?
- devmage, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1This post is totally fail for not having an Amiga in the list...
- trollick, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1Roadrunner? Really?
Because, what, petaflop barrier was actually a physical barrier similar to, for example, sound barrier? - Ratteler, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1I'm a bit disappointed that you still retain the ability to reproduce, and will undoubtedly infict your offspring on the world at some point.
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