MaximumPC has listed their choices for the "25 Most Important PCs in History". The Commodore PET is at #10, and the Commodore 64 is at #19. To see the gallery of the 25 computers, go to
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/25_most_important_pcs_history#slide-0-field_gallery_images-17104
FCUG celebrating 30 years,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
The Other Group of Amigoids
http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network
http://www.sccaners.org
They also list the KIM-I at #6.
Quote from: airship on February 13, 2011, 04:36 AM...KIM-I at #6.
Well, I didn't say anything about that, because it is MOS Technologies and not really Commodore. However, Peter Jennings, who did the KIM-1, also did Chessmate for Commodore. Cousins once removed? :)
Writing from sunny L.A. with 80 deg. temps.,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug (http://videocam.net.au/fcug)
The Other Group of Amigoids
http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/ (http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/)
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network
http://www.sccaners.org (http://www.sccaners.org)
Quote from: RobertB on February 12, 2011, 04:35 PM
MaximumPC has listed their choices for the "25 Most Important PCs in History". The Commodore PET is at #10, and the Commodore 64 is at #19. To see the gallery of the 25 computers, go to
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/25_most_important_pcs_history#slide-0-field_gallery_images-17104 (http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/25_most_important_pcs_history#slide-0-field_gallery_images-17104)
FCUG celebrating 30 years,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug (http://videocam.net.au/fcug)
The Other Group of Amigoids
http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/ (http://www.calweb.com/%7Erabel1/)
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network
http://www.sccaners.org (http://www.sccaners.org)
The put the Trash-80 at number 11. I don't agree with that at all. In fact, there was little about the Trash-80 that was important, other than being sold in stores where the hired help didn't know their katushkas from a hole in the ground. Ditto for the IBM-PC, which was a "remarkable" piece of junky engineering.
The C-64 should have been much higher on the totem pole. It made "home computer" a household phrase.
I don't get the feeling that they are numbered "in order of importance" actually.