![]() With an absurdly high price (options ranged between $4,340 to $7,800–about $11,231 to $20,185 in 2009 dollars) and numerous bugs at launch, the Apple III was doomed to failure. Instead, a committee of engineers designed it to be the “perfect” business system. The Apple III was Apple’s first computer not devised by Steve Wozniak, Apple’s co-founder. Special thanks to Steven Stengel of the Obsolete Technology Homepage for providing many of the photos in this article. But when considering past design mistakes, these examples spring to my mind. By no means is the following list exhaustive one could probably write about the flaws of every PC ever released. Decades later, we can still learn from these multi-million dollar mistakes. ![]() ![]() Many early PCs shipped with major design flaws that either sunk platforms outright or considerably slowed down their adoption by the public. But in the personal computer’s long and varied history, some computers have been decidedly less perfect than others. There’s no such thing as the perfect computer, and never has been. ![]()
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