[arethuza]

There was a veritable Cambrian explosion of different personal computer designs in the late 70s early 80s before the PC came along that existed contemporaneously with the Apple II.

Pretty much all of these were evolutionary dead ends.

[dfghjkhgbfd]

Yes and in 1995 one of them made an OS with pretty pictures and clicky mousey thing that looked very much like someones elses pretty pictures and clickey mousey thing.

Except theirs cost $99 or free with your costco computer - while the other guys meant you had to spend $1500+