Greatest PCs of All Time

August 12, 2006 by Santaduck.

PC World has written an article to hail the 25th anniversary of the 8086 IBM PC, listing the twenty five greatest PCs of all time. They’ve really done their homework, as the list ranges from old faves such as the MITS Altair 8800, Trash 80 (wups, Tandy TRS-80), Amiga, Atari 800, to models that changed the industry or started popular trends such as the 1986 Compaq Deskpro 386, Shuttle SV24 Barebones, Alienware Area-51, Gateway 2000, and Sony Vaio. Of course Apple is represented, with the Apple ][, Powerbook 100, 2nd gen (Sunflower) iMac, and Macintosh. Even the Apple eMate 300 made the list, and of course the GUI Grandaddy of them all, the Xerox 8010. In case your favorite rig was not listed, they’ve covered themselves by oroviding a list of “near greats” for each of 3 approxiately decade-long spans: 71-83, 84-89, 92-05. Check it out.

UT2004 Santaduck Toolpack update: I’ve heard that the download links at Macologist for this file no longer work. I’ll try to update this ASAP and host it.

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