Top-10 worst computers

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There's been some truly ghastly rubbish made since Colossus cracked its first wartime code

"Where there's muck, there's brass," goes the old Yorkshire saying. Unfortunately, the reverse is also true. And the computer industry has churned out more than its fair share of silicon muck, over...

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