On PC World's worst 10 PC's of all time, the humble VIC 20 came in 7th.
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VIC 20 #7 worst computer of all time.
On PC World's worst 10 PC's of all time, the humble VIC 20 came in 7th.
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Oh crap. I just found an extra Vic 20 in Goodwill for 5 bucks, which means I now own 2 or 3. I got the receipt still so I better take it back and tell them I want to return it because PC World says it sucks.Originally Posted by boatofcar
Wow, I'm surprised that the Mattel Aquarius didn't make the list.
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I can't argue with number one.
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#2 sounds hilarious. I want one.
Me too. I've got one with a tape drive and I've only hooked it up once. They keyboard is a joke. And I'd also second the vote for the TRaSh-80. I also remember the Barbie/Hot Wheel computers from flyers we gave out at Toys R Us. Total plastic POS.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>i want a Barbie PC<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
So they never obviously used a Sinclair 48k Spectrum, which belongs at number one
Definitely, definitely can't argue with #1. Packard Bell is like the ValuJet of PCs. My best friend growing up had one of those things, and I hated it so much.
Oh here's another top 10 best/worst list. Haven't seen one of these lately! And it's snarky too!
The Vic 20's main selling points were price and ease of use. In both instances it succeeded spectacularly. So what if you had to put your foot on it to remove cartridges?
I wonder if all these people who make fun of the Adam have actually laid their hands on one?
There was nothing wrong with the Barbie or Hot Wheels computers. Well, at least nothing that wasn't wrong with the other budget PCs of the day. I thought they were cool first PCs for kids. The company that sold them went out of business, so they were bad PCs?
NOW I'D LIKE TO MAKE SOME LISTS
Top 10 Worst Magazines My Mother in Law Sends Me
1. PC World
numbers 2-10. PC World
Every month it is the same crap in this magazine. "Top Windows Fixes" "10 Ways to Make Windows Faster" "Best Free Software" Every issue for the past 8 years has been some variation on these themes.
Top 10 Things I Put My Hot Dinner Plate On When I Eat in Front of the TV
1. PC World magazine
2. Local shopper's guide
numbers 3-10. PC World magazine
When I have a hot dinner plate I don't want to wreck the coffee table with, I put my plate on the nearest piece of useless crap that happens to be nearby.
Top 10 Things I Put a Drink On When I'm Watching TV
1. PC World magazine
2. Local shopper's guide
3. a coaster
numbers 4-10. PC World Magazine
When you put a drink on something made of paper, it becomes ruined by the condensation on the bottom of the glass. But who cares when it's some crappy magazine?
Top 10 Things I Kill Insects With
1. PC World Magazine
2. a sneaker
numbers 3-10. PC World magazine
When an insect is on the carpet I smash it with my sneaker. If an annoying fly is buzzing around I swat it with an old magazine, usually one that has food stains and drink rings on it. I may want to keep my gaming mags and the various educational periodicals I have around. But I have little need for a PC World magazine...after crushing the insect I can just throw the whole mess in the trash.
Top 10 Things "Accidentally" Thrown Away in my House
1. PC World
numbers 2-10. PC World
I throw away junk mail immediately and this often includes a large stack of catalogs that my wife receives. Occassionally mixed up in this stack will be a PC World Magazine. If I see I have accidentally thrown it away I do not bother to retrieve it.
Top 10 Magazines I Would Rather Get A Single Issue of Than the Next 20 Years of PC World
1. Fangoria
2. Weird NJ
3. 2600
4. Wired
5. Sound and Vision
6. Playboy
7. Cracked (do they still make that?)
8. Starlog
9. Weekly World News
10. Omni (do they still make that?)
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Last edited by DefaultGen; 03-12-2023 at 08:00 PM.
exchange your mother-in-law and change to PC Shopper
I used to like my Adam, nice good working WP built in (change from 'electric typewriter' to built-in WP at a touch of a button), excellent quality printing (Daisy Wheel), bit slow and noisy perhaps, but still working fine at a time when other computers could only afford 7 or 9 pin dot matrix with horrible looking print
I can't believe Macintosh Classic didn't make the list. I remember them being mocked a lot.
The TI was not a bad machine. There were far worse out there. (and I third the Aquarius nomination)
And my first windows PC was a Packard Bell 386. Biggest piece of shit, ever. It would barely run my copy of Sam & Max hit the road.
Last edited by diskoboy; 05-19-2007 at 10:59 AM.
My first system was a Packard Bell, don't recall the model but it was entertaining and did what it needed. Maybe my family was in the good 5/6 portion.
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I'm glad Packard Bell was at #1. I couldn't agree more. I hated them on sight when they had a bunch of them at my old job. Every single one was underpowered and the PC group was constantly working on them. I was glad I was never stuck with one and even glad when those POS Packard Bells were eventually replaced.
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yeah...Packard Bell suck big time
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I am shocked - shocked, I say - that the Sinclair ZX-81 aka Timex-Sinclair 1000 aka my first computer did not make this list. I mean, it had 2K of RAM, black-and-white display with no sound, half-sized membrane keys and a "token" based BASIC system all in a casing that got so hot it would crash the system if you blew on it too hard. What's not to hate? Heck, my neighbor had a VIC-20 and of him I was immensely jealous.
Packard-Bell definitely deserves top, er, honors on this list. For sentimental reasons I still have the PB my wife owned when we started dating: a 386-25 with 4MB, 50MB HDD and Win 3.1. Compared to my Tandy RSX-1000HD I thought Mrs. Pan's Packard Bell was the shizzle. It might even have helped me fall in love with her quicker than I did. Shortly after we got married I got my first PC tech job and, well, I had no illusions about "Packard Hell" after that.
I have 5 of the 10 out in my garage (eMachine, Vic-20, TI-99/4A, IBM PS/1, Packard Bell PC). I also disagree with whoever said the TRS-80 should be on the list. Maybe it didn't age well, but back in '77 it was a pretty amazing machine compared to what else was out there. The Apple II movement was pretty small and slow back then; I don't remember it overtaking Tandy until the Plus or maybe even the IIe was released.
And while I'm sure I'll hit a wall here, I never cared for the Vic-20 or the TI. I don't know that they're the worst computers ever made, but they certainly weren't favorites of mine.
EDIT: My BBS, The Gas Chamber, ran on a Packard Bell 386 SX/16 that, by the end of its life, had four IDE hard drives (one where the HD went, one where the 5 1/4 floppy drive went, one where the 3 1/2 drive went, and one duct taped to the top of the power supply) and an external 7 disc SCSI CD-Rom changer. I got the computer for free while working at Best Buy; a customer returned it shortly before his warranty was up. I took it home and fixed it, and that was that. That being said, I'm not defending those POS computers at all; I used to work on returned ones every day at BB it seems.
Last edited by Flack; 05-19-2007 at 05:33 PM.
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