The Top 10 Worst PC's of All Time

My first computer falls at #5 on this list. It was only 12 years ago that I got it. I bought it second hand from a friend of my mom's. It wasn't so bad for someone pretty computer illiterate as I was at the time. I sure dissected that sucker to see how it ticked. Could've been worse - I could've been stuck with a Packard Bell (#1 on the list) as were several people I knew.

The PS/1 was IBM's second stab at creating a consumer PC for the masses, following the disastrous PCjr (#13 on our list of the all-time worst products), but it wasn't much of an improvement.

Among other brilliant moves, the original PS/1 featured a power supply inside the monitor, which made swapping out displays impossible, and it couldn't accept standard ISA cards, preventing upgrades. (Later models were more compatible.)

In 1994 IBM abandoned the PS/1 and tried again to capture the consumer market by introducing the Aptiva line, but this too was largely a disaster. IBM gave up the whole Aptiva idea in 2000.