My thoughts: the command line crowd didn't need it, the rest of the world didn't want it. We were about to get rid of Word Perfect and its obnoxious command key

My thoughts: the command line crowd didn't need it, the rest of the world didn't want it. We were about to get rid of Word Perfect and its obnoxious command keys and nobody was unhappy about it. Why get a fairly expensive dedicated machine that wasn't graphical? It looks like it didn't have games either. Perhaps it could have been a good fit for some office work. I don't think it had much of a chance of changing computing, let alone the world. It sounds trivial, but people really like eye candy. Anything new has to look appealing, even if only superficially.