What are the really unusual or weird computers?

On 25/06/07, Teo Zenios <teoz at neo.rr.com> wrote: Not a valid comparison. That's like comparing all microcomputers and ignoring their vast diversity. If it runs IBM PC programs of its time period - whether that's Windows or Lotus 1-2-3 or whatever - then it's a PC. About the only time a PC compatible is interesting in architectural or design terms is if it's something like a BBC Master 512 - a 2nd processor in an alien computer connected over a CPU-to-CPU bus. Thus, there's some interest in hardware PC cards for the various Macs, in the add-in boards for the Acorn RISC PC (I have one here, if I ever get it working) and so forth. But basically, a PC compatible is a PC compatible. We've all seen a thousand of them. Who cares any more? They get marginally more fun to use if they're running an interesting OS. Me, I run Linux, because I have work to do and it networks with anything, drives almost any peripheral and so on. But I find BeOS and Syllable and QNX and AROS and so on much more *interesting*, simply because they are different. -- Liam Proven ? Blog, homepage &c: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ? GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lproven at gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 ? Cell: +44 7939-087884 ? Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat: liamproven at aol.com ? MSN/Messenger: lproven at hotmail.com Yahoo: liamproven at yahoo.co.uk ? Skype: liamproven ? ICQ: 73187508