miguelcarrasco.net— The Ten Biggest Computer Mistakes ever made. Featuring Microsoft Bob, Apple Newton, Xerox Alto, and Microsoft ME.
Oct 21, 2006View in Crawl 4
I would never consider the Xerox Alto a flop, neither the Next inc venture nor the Newton. The others well... yeah.. Thanks to the Alto we have icons and windows (not microsoft's for sure), thanks to the NeXT we all have OS X. Thanks to the newton we accepted existence of the PDA (which doesn't matter anymore), the Lisa was a step between the Apple II and the Macintosh.. But what could we thank Windows Me, or OS/2 Warp, or PCjr for?? The others in the list.. I don't remember which they were.
@ jellygraphI was as of 2002, but finally had to get rid of it when I lost my serial adapter and couldn't find a new one (plus it was too big). After that I went through a few Palms/Handsprings and even a WinCE device, but eventually I gave up on it entirely and just started carrying my laptop with me in a backpack. Nothing came CLOSE to my MP2000.
This would be a good article if it were better written. The conclusion doesn't match up with the title of the article. The title of the article is: "Biggest Computer Flops of all time." However, the author ends the article by saying all these were mistakes. CP/M for what its worth, was not a computer flop. The operating system was quite solid and could have been the basis for the PC. If the story is true, then yes, someone did make a big mistake. But to call CP/M a computer flop lacks credibility. But, thanks for the pictures beside each of the items -- it does bring back memories.
ardellinOct 21, 2006
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alobosOct 22, 2006
I would never consider the Xerox Alto a flop, neither the Next inc venture nor the Newton. The others well... yeah.. Thanks to the Alto we have icons and windows (not microsoft's for sure), thanks to the NeXT we all have OS X. Thanks to the newton we accepted existence of the PDA (which doesn't matter anymore), the Lisa was a step between the Apple II and the Macintosh.. But what could we thank Windows Me, or OS/2 Warp, or PCjr for?? The others in the list.. I don't remember which they were.
ggkoOct 22, 2006
More of Apple's flops:<a class="user" href="http://www.lowendmac.com/roadapples/index.shtml">http://www.lowendmac.com/roadapples/index.shtml</a>Interesting though that two of Apple's coolest machines are on the list:G4 Cube: not much explanation neededColor Classic: a favourite machine to mod and upgrade for its classic form factor.
nrecobOct 22, 2006
"Shhh. You'll upset the mindless apple drones!"Interesting how insecure they are all while having the "superior" tools....
rspeedOct 23, 2006
@ jellygraphI was as of 2002, but finally had to get rid of it when I lost my serial adapter and couldn't find a new one (plus it was too big). After that I went through a few Palms/Handsprings and even a WinCE device, but eventually I gave up on it entirely and just started carrying my laptop with me in a backpack. Nothing came CLOSE to my MP2000.
ardellinOct 23, 2006
well, if anyone actually ever visits this page again...Hooray! illaya and miguelcarrasco have been banned! Take that spammers!
rinesmithOct 23, 2006
This would be a good article if it were better written. The conclusion doesn't match up with the title of the article. The title of the article is: "Biggest Computer Flops of all time." However, the author ends the article by saying all these were mistakes. CP/M for what its worth, was not a computer flop. The operating system was quite solid and could have been the basis for the PC. If the story is true, then yes, someone did make a big mistake. But to call CP/M a computer flop lacks credibility. But, thanks for the pictures beside each of the items -- it does bring back memories.
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