Who were the worst of the worst?

On Thu, 14 Feb 2013, Jason McBrien wrote: FANTASTIC machine! IBM asked focus groups what they WANTED for a home computer, and then was foolish enough to build THAT! People SAID that they wanted a stripped down machine, and would settle for lack of expandability to cut costs, but in actuality wanted a machine identical, or expandable to be, exactly like the machine at work. They SAID that they didn't need a second floppy, but then objected to the lack of one, and inability [without aftermarket] to add one. They SAID that they didn't need a hard disk, but then objected to the lack of one, and inability [without aftermarket] to add one They SAID that they didn't need EGA or VGA video, but then objected to the lack of it, and inability [without aftermarket] to add it. They SAID that they didn't need ISA slots, but then objected to the lack of it, and inability [without aftermarket] to add them. So, IBM built exactly what they asked for, which wasn't even close to what they actually wanted. EXACTLY the same as such machines as Coco, and proving that they were too big to learn from anybody else's mistakes, IBM included a chiclets keyboard, and then, like RS with the Coco, ended up having to give away free replacement keyboards with "standard" shaped keys. If you didn't like running the cordless keyboard on batteries, you could simply plug it in. "milkshake-proof", but not submersible (confirmed) Non-standard connectors for everything, but kludgeable. Qume 142 drive, which was SO slow stepping that PC-DOS 2.00 had to be replaced with 2.10 to make the changes to allow for the slow step. CGA video with trivial level of improvement. Did they ever air the commercial with fake Charlie Chaplin in a '57 chevy convertible? (Or was that for the laptop?) -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com