Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 15th Jun 2009 17:09 UTC
"There's no such thing as the perfect computer, and never has been. But in the personal computer's long and varied history, some computers have been decidedly less perfect than others. Many early PCs shipped with major design flaws that either sunk platforms outright or considerably slowed down their adoption by the public. Decades later, we can still learn from these multi-million dollar mistakes. By no means is the following list exhaustive; one could probably write about the flaws of every PC ever released. But when considering past design mistakes, these examples spring to my mind."
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2005-07-06
I am surprised they left out the Atari ST's use of a ROM slot instead of an expansion slot.
It was one of my main reason's for buying an Amiga instead (multi-tasking being the other).
At a time when PC/ATs, Apple IIs, Mac IIs, Amigas and others all had some way to expand memory/hardware options on thier machines Atari still thought of computers as *ONLY* game machines when they designed it.