1993 – 1993retired
FM Towns Marty
“First of its kind, gone by New Year's Eve — Marty left the party early.”
“First of its kind, gone by New Year's Eve — Marty left the party early.”
“Enhanced in name, eternal in our hearts — lowercase letters never looked so good.”
“A keyboard-less computer with big dreams, gone when its maker went under.”
“It put color graphics and VisiCalc in a plastic case, and never stopped being useful.”
“A CD player that dreamed of being a computer, a decade too polite to say so.”
“It saw right through you, and we loved it for that.”
“News in the blanking interval: America typed its answer to Ceefax, then the sets stopped listening.”
“1250 lines of European ambition, politely ahead of its time and sadly early to the party”
“Too good to replace, it stuck around until Apple finally found something cheaper.”
“The middle child of the II family, holding the sound and color line without complaint.”
“Brief of tenure, big of heart: the only II to moonlight as a Performa.”
“The last of its family, and it carried a CD-ROM drive to the grave.”
“The little Mac that outsold them all, then politely stepped aside.”
“First of the mini-towers, gone before the tower got comfortable.”
“A square peg that refused to be a dish.”
“Better than dot matrix, cheaper than laser — the sensible middle child, gone in the cleanup.”
“That's all, folks — dinner is served, never again.”