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10 Biggest Computer Flops of all time
miguelcarrasco.net — The Ten Biggest Computer Mistakes ever made. Featuring Microsoft Bob, Apple Newton, Xerox Alto, and Microsoft ME.
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- devindotcom, on 10/12/2007, -10/+204(spoiler)The top 5:
5. Flop
4. Kiloflop
3. Megaflop
2. Gigaflop
1. Teraflop
wocka wocka wocka!- j01101010, on 10/12/2007, -6/+42you forgot petaflop
- hammydude, on 10/12/2007, -10/+55Windows ME (shudders)
- Ninjab3ar, on 10/12/2007, -15/+24G4 Cube, anyone?
- stylerm, on 10/12/2007, -9/+21wtf hammydude. your digg reply etiquette is lacking.
- zybch, on 10/12/2007, -12/+38How can windows Me be considered a flop?
Sure, it sucked I absolutely loathed it, but I would bet that hundreds of millions of copies were sold or bundled with sold PCs, so how can it be a flop on the same level as OS/2 or the Lisa?
I'll say once again, Win Me sure did suck, but in sales terms is certainly was not a flop by any means! - Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -8/+25The Cube was great! Although I have to admit the urge to pull a tissue from the top whenever I pass one.
- PathDaemon, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1Exaflop...
- Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13I think the 20th Anniversary Mac tops the Cube in the area of flops...
- jacobd, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20We owe a lot to the NeXT cube:
- Tim Bernes-Lee used it to write the WWW protocols.
- When Apple bought NeXT in 1996 the NeXT OS was used as a basis for OS X, the product that revived Apple. - sophiaperennis, on 10/12/2007, -11/+1#11. Any Windows OS before Win NT 4.x
- 23r17i05o42n, on 10/12/2007, -23/+16Why isn't Vista on this. It's already a flop.
- hosiah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13I'll vouch for the NeXT cube. It was a great system, and in the aerospace industry at the time you found nothing but NeXT. Boy, could you hack that sucker! The list is more about business-blunder flops than technology flops.
PS Thanks to the NeXT STEP, Window Maker is still one of my top two favorite FOSS desktops. - mrmidgetman, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3man i kept seeing Windows ME and thought you were talking about Media Edition. I just got a new laptop with that on it.
- adstretch, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0@Cymrubeats
Media Edition is a flop in its own right.
1) It doesn't support most pro audio hardware/software (pretty much anything you'd buy in the pro audio dept at guitar center)
I know this first hand due to all the people who return items because they won't run on their machines because they didnt check compatibility first.
2) media edition is supposed to be the center of a whole entertainment system, which i doubt you bought with that laptop (no one else did either) - DelMonte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"I think the 20th Anniversary Mac tops the Cube in the area of flops..."
How was it a flop? It was designed to be sold to a very restricted market, and it did just that. If it was that much of a flop there wouldn't have been one in the few last seasons of Seinfeld.
- markus941, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20nice list. if i ever make enough money I want to collect all 10 as antique geek art
- Dested, on 10/12/2007, -6/+94Even as a joke, installing Windows ME isn't funny dude. Show some respect for the millions who lost their computers to this travesty.
Marked as insensitive. - Cymrubeats, on 10/12/2007, -2/+43I think ME is the reason why XP became the most pirated OS on the planet.
- Dested, on 10/12/2007, -6/+94Even as a joke, installing Windows ME isn't funny dude. Show some respect for the millions who lost their computers to this travesty.
- i440, on 10/12/2007, -79/+2They forgot the C programming language
- erkokite, on 10/12/2007, -4/+23huh? I hope that was a joke...
- decades, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Maybe it just a mistake you tried to learn it, unsuccessfully ;-)
- RyeBrye, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13There is hardly any language more successul than the C programming language. Not only is it still in wide use today - many other modern languages borrow their basic syntax from it.
- i440, on 10/12/2007, -19/+3“There is hardly any language more successul than the C programming language.”
I was of course half-joking. It did give rise to Unix and so forth, but nowadays it just feels archaic with the more advanced programming languages available. Yes, C does increase performance, but it seems much more difficult and it's not a very secure programming language AFAIK
“Maybe it just a mistake you tried to learn it, unsuccessfully ;-)”
Yes, yes. I admit it. You are correct. I tried to learn it on my own, but gave up because it was too much work. I thought such matter would be best left to my computer science professors - shillbert, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16C is probably one of the best languages because it lets you do exactly what you want to do. Unfortunately, it's also one of the worst, because it lets you do exactly what you don't want to do.
- chadu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23The Newton may not have set the world on fire with it's sales, but it certainly made things like the Palm Pilot, Windows Mobile, and the Tablet PC possible far sooner than they would have happened had it not been for Apple.
- Cymrubeats, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6The term "personal digital assistant" was a coined on January 7, 1992 by then Apple Computer CEO John Sculley at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, referring to the Apple Newton. In 1989, the Atari Portfolio, although technically classed a palmtop, was an early harbinger imitating the form of some of the more modern pocket devices. Earlier devices like the Psion and Sharp Wizard already had the functionality to be considered as PDAs. In fact, PDAs by other names were available as early as the mid-1970s -- first as very advanced calculators, then as electronic organizers, and later as palmtops. [3].
Yeah, so they did...once again, Apple lead the way 15 years later. ;) They couned the term PDA, but that doesn't quite equate to being the first. - macewan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Mine still works
- anonym41414, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Funny thing, the Newton. It seemed like a great idea for a while, but today we all know that personal organizers were pretty useless. Now we all have personal communications devices that tack on organization features as a sort of electronic lagniappe. Cell phones and blackberries.
- dancpsu, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2The Newton was a good idea, except for the lack of either lots of memory or being internet capable. The Doonesbury anti-newton ad campaign never gave it a chance.
Electronic personal organizers are nice if you can either access things like movie showtimes, recipes, weather reports, banking info and other people's schedules that are useful in planning things are included. All of those require internet access.
A successful personal organizer would have 2 weeks of battery life, wireless internet capabilities, have a screen the size of a paperback novel, and cost $50 or less ($200 for early adopters). - DrGonzo1184, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@dancpsu
The Newton can surf the net. I know this for a fact as I have surfed on a Newton before. - ggko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1> Yeah, so they did...once again, Apple lead the way 15 years later. ;)
What is the technology in question here? The portable data device, or the notepad paradigm for the portable data device? Didn't the others you mention take on the form of a miniature computer? (keyboard & screen) - rspeed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@Cymrubeats
None of those took the form of a notepad, though. There's a massive difference there. The Newton wasn't simply a small computer.
@ dancpsu
4MB of storage and 640k of RAM in 1993 in a portable wasn't really that bad. By 1996 they were 8MB/8MB, both expandable. As someone already mentioned, they're perfectly capable of connecting to the internet, including Wi Fi.
- Cymrubeats, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6The term "personal digital assistant" was a coined on January 7, 1992 by then Apple Computer CEO John Sculley at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, referring to the Apple Newton. In 1989, the Atari Portfolio, although technically classed a palmtop, was an early harbinger imitating the form of some of the more modern pocket devices. Earlier devices like the Psion and Sharp Wizard already had the functionality to be considered as PDAs. In fact, PDAs by other names were available as early as the mid-1970s -- first as very advanced calculators, then as electronic organizers, and later as palmtops. [3].
- erkokite, on 10/12/2007, -1/+37CP/M wasn't a failure. Before the PC clone era, CP/M was the most widely used OS, analogous to Windows of it's time.
- sexycommando, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7but it failed us when the world needed it the most: to stop MS from getting its foothold in the PC industry
- CovardeAnonimo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7and the airplane thing is also a mith. check it out here: http://www.digitalresearch.biz/EUBANKS.HTM
- Bobski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Watch the real Gary Kildall story here:
http://www.archive.org/details/GaryKild - doctechnical, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The way I heard it, Gary's wife wouldn't sign IBM's non-disclosure agreement. IBM won't tell you the time of day iuntil you sign an NDA.
- hosiah, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Bleaeargh - I dimly remember CP/M for it's editor. Let's take the non-intuitiveness of vi and the shoot-your-foot-off with-a-hair-trigger power of Midnight Commander and put them together...
Just because DOS was unbelievably worse doesn't excuse CP/M. - EdThomson, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1WHAT IS HAPPENING?
- EochaidRiata, on 10/12/2007, -1/+33Someone should let this guy know that 'to' and 'too' are not interchangeable. These constant grammatical errors make his writing appear to originate from an adolescent.
- pseudojd, on 10/12/2007, -16/+10I resemble that remark, I am 26 and still don't have my yours's down just yet. anybody have the wiki for that?
- stylerm, on 10/12/2007, -6/+20How can you resemble a remark?
- DyDx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6@stylerm: it is an old joke saying.
- Gudath, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9"I resemble that remark" is a classic comedy line. A deliberate malapropism, it was used by the Three Stooges, and by Archie Bunker, and probably goes further back.
- balloot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Agreed...the most relevant piece of information that I got out of this article is that the author couldn't pass 3rd grade grammar.
- retral, on 10/12/2007, -29/+9Buried for spamming... get a life
- retral, on 10/12/2007, -12/+8I love how I'm getting buried by people who don't even know what I'm talking about... because I'm sure if you realised what illaya did (he/she spammed this digg in like 10-20 other digg comments), you'd be saying the same thing.
- ardellin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3He is right... all illaya does is submit and digg her own stoires, which all but one go to this same website.
I call it spam, since illaya is NOT a part of the digg community. Looking at her history, she is only here to draw traffic to this blog and no more. Apparently (according to some other comments here), illaya comments in other story comments just to link to to her submitted stories. - LLXerxes, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Maybe you're getting dugg down because nobody cares whether or not it's spam?
- ardellin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3other usernames spamming this blog:
http://digg.com/users/miguelcarrasco
http://digg.com/users/davidcarrasco
- zakool21, on 10/12/2007, -8/+12No Digg. The grammar and spelling in this article SUCKS the big one and I can remember some worse flops. Windows ME and the Newtwon, however, were good examples.
- zybch, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3Me is NOT a good example.
It sold by the millions.
Sure, it truly sucked.
But it sold a ***** ton! - bennyboy371, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16I love how he gets pissed about bad spelling then says Newtwon.
- zybch, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3Me is NOT a good example.
- rcran, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9The newton, very simply, was not a flop. People STILL use newtons.
- jellygraph, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5who?
- Dangerman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3There's a NUG in my town and I don't live in that large of a city. There are tons of people that still hack Newtons.
- Azur2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I remember the sales rep who showed how awesome the Newtons text recognition function was by writing his name, and the Newton interpreted this as "I'm a hotdog".
They don't make PDA's like that any more. - rspeed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@ jellygraph
I was as of 2002, but finally had to get rid of it when I lost my serial adapter and couldn't find a new one (plus it was too big). After that I went through a few Palms/Handsprings and even a WinCE device, but eventually I gave up on it entirely and just started carrying my laptop with me in a backpack. Nothing came CLOSE to my MP2000.
- thorn101, on 10/12/2007, -19/+8Windows ME wasn't a flop, it was a well conceived and thought out marketing plan.
Microsoft figured no one would want to leave Win98 SE, so they figured out an effective way to move developer and consumer alike to XP.
Introduce something that doesn't work, make everyone switch... wait a little bit and then save the day by shipping something that actually works.
Beautiful if I say so myself.- Dested, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14BURN FOR YOUR SINS
- DougieD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24Is that you, Bill?
- AM088, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Yeah, so people buy ME, and then they buy XP and Microsoft gets double income.
- Dangerman, on 10/12/2007, -18/+4What part of XP actually works? ; )
- mybrainhurts, on 10/12/2007, -9/+17All of XP works if you're not a complete retard.
- JonForTheWin, on 10/12/2007, -21/+3This sucks balls.
The worst flops are when people started running GNU software using the kernel Linux and referring to the whole system Linux (when they were filling a gap in the not yet complete GNU system), thus confusing the world for over a decade and a half now wrongfully calling the entire system Linux when the system is GNU . . . uggh.
& right up there with that is consumers tolerating microsoft windows.- prophet6, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5You're right that the GNU/Linux terminology is often misunderstood, but getting too caught up in nomenclature really misses the point. GNU/Linux changed the world, regardless of what it's called.
Richard Stallman is a brilliant man who's basically shot his credibility to hell because of his obsession with this trivial issue.
Like the now arcane hacker/cracker distinction, words change meaning with time. It's just the way language works. - Azur2, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1@JonForTehWin: I think I speak for a lot of people when I say...
...wtf are you talking about?
- prophet6, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5You're right that the GNU/Linux terminology is often misunderstood, but getting too caught up in nomenclature really misses the point. GNU/Linux changed the world, regardless of what it's called.
- AM088, on 10/12/2007, -6/+19Wow, Apple is a flop-y company...
- zybch, on 10/12/2007, -10/+18Shhh. You'll upset the mindless apple drones!
- hybrid8, on 10/12/2007, -7/+8@zycbh: get a life
and yes apple tends to be cutting edge and their products are a make or break kinda thing, but not as dramatic, thus the price you pay for innovation, not everything will take off, ask Edison - FluffyArmada, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Geeze... I thought it was funny, and I have a Mac. :0.
- ggko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4More of Apple's flops:
http://www.lowendmac.com/roadapples/index.shtml
Interesting though that two of Apple's coolest machines are on the list:
G4 Cube: not much explanation needed
Color Classic: a favourite machine to mod and upgrade for its classic form factor. - nrecob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Shhh. You'll upset the mindless apple drones!"
Interesting how insecure they are all while having the "superior" tools....
- cmost, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I certainly wouldn't call OS/2 one of the ten biggest computing mistakes. In fact, OS/2 is still in use today by a significant number of people. When eCom Station is factored into the equation as well as the throngs of people asking for OS/2 to be open sourced, i'd say this operating system has a loyal yet thriving community still. As one who has used OS/2 Warp back in the days when NT 4.0 was just arriving on scene, I can attest to its power, flexibility, and plethora of features that easily trumpted NT.
- hosiah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Having *also* worked with OS/2 Warp, I'm wondering what you're smoking... yes, it beat Win-duhs of the time, but so does an Etch-a-Sketch. Second-place terrible isn't great. Take a Unix (of the time) desktop front-end and a DOS command-line back-end and put them together to get the worst of *both* worlds!
Just my .02 - doctechnical, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I have very fond memories of OS/2 Warp. It *was* a better DOS than DOS, and a better Windows than Windows. It was absolutely rock solid, it *never* crashed on me. I was developing DOS apps at the time and it was a real productivity enhancer - well done multitasking without the crap overhead of Windows.
I wonder just how much Big Blue code is still in WinNT/2000/XP et al? - hosiah, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"it *never* crashed on me."
So, you never tried moving a window when it had a process running? Must have been our fine vendor software, then. With ours, you had to go outside the building to fart for fear of making the OS/2s crash.
And how about that chess game? Put it all the way to it's highest difficulty, take it's queen in six moves, checkmate in nine. - warragul, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4There's quite a bit of revisionism in that article. OS/2 was an alternative to Windows; in the 90's I was in an IBM marketing team trying to sell it. There was never a tie-in with the PPC. We were selling Micro-channel 386 PS/2s against clone PCs.
As for stability, OS/2 running on a PS/2 was as solid as a rock. I saw a developer start over 20 simultaneous DOS instances under OS/2 with nary a hiccup. Each ran its own DOS program in a separate thread.
I don't believe you can judge an Os's quality by the strength of an included (3rd party) game.
- hosiah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Having *also* worked with OS/2 Warp, I'm wondering what you're smoking... yes, it beat Win-duhs of the time, but so does an Etch-a-Sketch. Second-place terrible isn't great. Take a Unix (of the time) desktop front-end and a DOS command-line back-end and put them together to get the worst of *both* worlds!
- willywong, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4According to the figures given on Next it made 50 million profit. Not a bad flop.
- j01101010, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3only if you assume that every single one they ever made was sold
- lakawak, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3willy...even by typical "Pleae let me such your *****, Steve Jobs" standards, your logic is ridiculously horrible.
1. Apple did not get $6000 profit per computer sold.
2. Costs are NOT just what it costs to produce the machines. Marketing adds millions.
But thebiggest reason why your post REALLY makes you look stupid is:
3. PRODUCING 50,000 computers is not the same as SELLING 50,000 computers.
It was a flop. There was NO profit made on NeXT.
And even with your silly post, Steve will NOT let you suck his *****. give it up. - reiggin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6NeXT's success was in their operating system, NeXTstep which finally became OPENSTEP (before the Apple aquisition).
While the NeXTcube and NeXTstation only sold 50,000 units, the operating system was deployable on several different platforms.
The company cannot be seen as a failure itself since it was around for a decade and sold for a half billion dollars. - balloot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Huh? There is nothing in the article that would make even the most optimistic prognosticator think that NeXT turned a profit.
- evolseven, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2well if all 50k unit's were sold at 6k a piece that would be $300,000,000... and assuming 250million put into making them it would be 50 million profit.. but who knows if that 250million was all that was put into them..
- FoxHunter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Glad it had a pic of the Xerox machine. I never knew what it looked like until now. Guess that's dumb on my part for never looking it up before. Regardless, I enjoyed the article and learned a few things too.
- CandidateZero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Windows ME, oh yeah, I remember. That's the piece of trash Dell forced on its customers as the only available OS circa 2001. I'll never forgive you, Michael.
- AceTracer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11The Apple Lisa came out in 1983; which he gets wrong the first time but right the second. And..."business's"? This whole article seems half-assed and uninformed.
- cquilliam, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11@AceTracer
"This whole article seems half-assed and uninformed."
You must be new here, welcome to digg.com
- cquilliam, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11@AceTracer
- Crucifix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6This is totally off topic, but I wish the author could learn the difference between 'to' and 'too'. That article simply got annoying to read after the fourth screw-up.
- NinjAlt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7User illaya is going around spamming this crap on every article he can find. Reported as spam as such. We the users of digg dont appreciate what you're doing illaya.
http://digg.com/users/illaya/commented- williamhelmick, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Thanks for the link, I used it so I could find all of illaya's comments to digg them down.
- NickYF19, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I looked too and illaya is definitely spamming links in comments. I also looked at the submitted stories by him, and most of them point to the same blog. Spamming Digg with links back to his blog as well.
- ardellin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3other usernames spamming this blog:
http://digg.com/users/miguelcarrasco
http://digg.com/users/davidcarrasco - NinjAlt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Looks like his other accounts are taking part with the same spamming and crap. I'll see about sending an email to report the crap. Hopefuly his accounts get banned and the URL gets blacklisted.
- ardellin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1well, if anyone actually ever visits this page again...
Hooray! illaya and miguelcarrasco have been banned! Take that spammers!
- hosiah, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Whew, a pretty good list link for a change. It's all on one page, has the ads to a minimum, and even has something intelligent to say.
Although most of these were "flops" from the business standpoint than the technology one - some of these were simply great ideas ahead of their time. I shudder to report that I have worked with four of these systems on the job. OS/2 Warp alone makes me dive screaming behind the chair.- williamhelmick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Considering the numerous and flagrant spelling/grammar mistakes in the article, I would hardly think to use "intelligent" to describe any part of it. I'd be embarrassed to post that kind of writing where anybody can see it.
- Hurricane, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You are right, technologically many of them were innovations, just failures business wise.
Heck, the first webserver was a NeXT and the Alto had the first practical GUI. - hosiah, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Alright, I wasn't agonizing over the spelling. I mean "knows it's subject matter" intelligent.
- Azur2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0OS/2 wasn't "bad by marketing", it was just bad.
OS/2 warp was probably the slowest, most bloated, AND most useless OS I've ever had the misfortune of using. Its only selling point was that it wasn't Windows 3.11.
Crap, crap, crap.- robbiedo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I remember loading OS/2 Warp by floppy disk....several times...arghhh!
- Hurricane, on 10/12/2007, -4/+711. Windows Vista
- rynTAU, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2But I thought Al Gore created the internet, who is this Tim Berners-Lee guy?
- prophet6, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I think Tim invented the Interweb.
- macewan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2no, he's one of the people that purchased a NeXT cube
:)
- bradmoreland, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0I don't think it's any coincidence that most of the biggest flops are Apple-related.
- macewan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5the more you try the more you fail
but you also win more than those that do not try - bradmoreland, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0I suppose that's true...if you call a 3% market share "winning".
- Fullmoon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2... or those iPods, right, brat?
Nobody every bought those.
- macewan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5the more you try the more you fail
- wonkavsn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1WANG Computers
(heehee) - inkswamp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Although produced for six years, it was never as successful as Apple had hoped."
That's only half the story. It was actually a reasonably successful product line, but it was selling primarily to people in the medical profession (from what I've read of it) which was a market that Apple--at that time struggling to retain its computer market share--didn't know how to cater to and didn't have the resources to figure out. The Newton wasn't really a flop at all. It just wasn't enough of a success for Apple at a time when it needed a slam dunk like the iPod. - graemee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm holding on to my copy of BOB. Now all I need is to wait for Duke Nukem Forever, which should be on the list too.
- robbiedo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I want to add anything with the Intel 286 to the list.
- Desolite, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I know its not exactly a PC... but i really think Virtual Boy (nintendo) should be on that list.
- alobos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I would never consider the Xerox Alto a flop, neither the Next inc venture nor the Newton. The others well... yeah..
Thanks to the Alto we have icons and windows (not microsoft's for sure), thanks to the NeXT we all have OS X. Thanks to the newton we accepted existence of the PDA (which doesn't matter anymore), the Lisa was a step between the Apple II and the Macintosh.. But what could we thank Windows Me, or OS/2 Warp, or PCjr for?? The others in the list.. I don't remember which they were. - lodhurr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The first product that popped into my head when I read the headline "10 Biggest Computer Flops of all time" was "Therac-25".
- chronodev, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Few know about WinRG which never made it to the market instead replaced by WinME
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/winrg.php - spotty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1excuse me, I believe you forgot Poland.
:) - icexe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm going to guess at least one "flavor" of Vista will flop. Home Premium just looks pretty useless to me.
- rayel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The Alto was never a flop, as it was a never sold commercially. It was an experimental system used internally at Xerox, and given away to academic institutions. It was an incredible success, in technical terms.
Xerox eventually did wake up to the potential of their creation, and produced the Star series. Hugely expensive, in some ways crippled in comparision to the Alto, and born into a command line world not yet ready for the GUI, these machines can indeed be viewed as a flop. - blackmh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I had ME installed for over a year and never had problems with it. Sure, there were couple of BSOD every now an then but that was normal for windows 9x.
- thorn101, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0He, dude... shhhhht! You can't say that, you will get dugg down.
Haven't you heard Windows sucks and Mac OS X rules.
- thorn101, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0He, dude... shhhhht! You can't say that, you will get dugg down.
- lukas88, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I call shenanigans on number 10. Determining an operating system for hundreds of thousands of dollars is not like calling to see if your friend can come over for tea. If the guy missed the call, chances are they would have waited till he landed. There must be other reasons why they went with Bill's operating system.
Sure, he has used strong arm tactics to keep down other software. But think about this: Without a Microsoft there wouldn't be a Linux. Why would people see the need for open source software without some light oppression? If you ask me, it is a good thing that windows is so prevalent. If there wasn't a standard operating system then it would cost much more to develop software for each one that existed.
With someone as smart as bill, he would have found a way on top one way or another. I am not sad that he did, he has set the best example in history of how wealthy people should use their money. He has given more to charity out of his own pocket than any other person alive. - huntrm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Where the hell is the Kaypro computer?!!! :-)
- rinesmith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This would be a good article if it were better written. The conclusion doesn't match up with the title of the article. The title of the article is: "Biggest Computer Flops of all time." However, the author ends the article by saying all these were mistakes. CP/M for what its worth, was not a computer flop. The operating system was quite solid and could have been the basis for the PC. If the story is true, then yes, someone did make a big mistake. But to call CP/M a computer flop lacks credibility. But, thanks for the pictures beside each of the items -- it does bring back memories.
- kingfarook, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Interestingly, I tried to submit this, having missed it. It now seems that Digg doesn't like the author and won't let you submit his site. Digg is rigged.
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