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The 5 Most Ridiculously Awful Computers Ever Made

TIMEX Sinclair

For lovers of tech humor, CRACKED pokes fun at five ill-fated wastes of silicon. Hmm, I don't know much about the Coleco Adam or Apple III, though I vaguely recall the TIMEX Sinclair. (Laborious typing of BASIC programs on a membrane keypad – and then doing it all over again with every session? At $99, it was the cheapest pain out there!) And then there's the Audrey "Internet appliance" – I heard some noise surrounding its launch, and nothing ever since. Now I know why.

Good stuff. Any machines that CRACKED neglected to mention? I'm thinking hard, but unable to come up with something worse than those choices. And you?

The 5 Most Ridiculously Awful Computers Ever Made

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