At 03:07 PM 11/9/98 PST, you wrote: So the IBM PC was hot stuff? I don't think so. It sold, and will be remembered, because it was IBM's stamp of approval on the (then) latest round of "Computers will change the way you do business." Back then, the theory was "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" and so it was that even though it was "technologically vanilla", the PC sold and made a serious impact. Likewise, many of the other very collectible or desireable computers are much less technologically innovative than they are socially (computer-wise) important. [From another message] The iMac is cute. It is friendly, something Grandma's are more likely to feel comfortable with than your standard PC. It is something that the upscale will be happy to have in their home -- you know, those weird people who have exactly three magazines (and nothing else) on their coffee table and don't have dozens of cables running (visibly!) through their homes, the way we do. Richard Fish (of Ally McBeal) had one in his apartment. BMW's are not exceptional cars. They're fine, much like many others available on the market. But all the yuppies want them, because they're beemers. The iMac is the same. And for that, it will be remembered and, eventually, collected. The iMac will change (or at least attempt to change) computing by bringing in a whole new layer of users -- ones that even the cheapy clone PC's couldn't attract. Similar to the ones that were attracted to the original Mac, but less adventuresome. --------------------------------------------------------------------- O- Uncle Roger "There is pleasure pure in being mad roger(a)sinasohn.com that none but madmen know." Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates San Francisco, California http://www.sinasohn.com/