John Dvorak on Computer Chronicles in 1987 to Discuss the Then-New IBM PS/2

Daring Fireballby John Grubertech

Dvorak is best known for all the takes he was jacktastically wrong about, but what gave his schtick staying power is that he was technically savvy. His take here on the PS/2 was actually spot-on: that it was technically impressive in many ways , especially the way it was assembled without any cables, but that it was doomed in the market against ugly mess-of-cables commodity PCs. “Computer Chronicles” was the real show from the 1980s that Adam Lisagor so lovingly and spectacularly spoofed with “

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