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Old 01-06-2006, 10:25 AM
alese
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US centric and (like all such lists) bias - not to mention Motorola and Sony??

Since I'm computer centric and more Europe bias, I guess they should add stuff like:
Commodore Amiga - (first?) real successful multimedia PC,
first IBM PC :?: ,
maybe Apple II - that more or less started PCs
and also Macintosh.
Then what about Nokia phones - Nokia have sold more Nokia 33xx phones worldwide than and other mobile phone ever...
And Timex/Sinclair 1000 (1982) is just an US branding of Sinclair Spectrum, that sold 4 or 5 million if I remember correctly in Europe.
Also I haven seen any HP calculators, they don't classify as gadgets?
 
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