Because people don't want to feel like they're singlehandedly
running the Ministry of Truth from a desk in their room. Something
engineers never seem to get is the concept of a nice look. Many of
the people on this list mention how ugly something is, and if I've
seen it, I'm often forced to agree.
>> STD Bus 8080 Computer board set mounted in a compucolor comercial
color
>> terminal. This terminal was a large metal box with a 19 inch monitor
>> inside. It weighed 70 or 80 pounds. No one would have wanted it in
their
>> house. It was ugly, huge, very unwieldy and heavy. You could attach a
8"
>> hard drive, 8" or 5 " floppys and any other interface availiable on
STD
>> bus that would fit in a near full 6 slot backplane. No comparison to
an
>> Apple II, which many people wanted in their homes.
>
>Well, you just spent a paragraph telling us your opinion of the
>Compucolor, without giving any technical reasons as to why one would
>prefer an Apple II over a Compucolor.
>
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