11 Jun
1998
11 Jun
'98
2:13 a.m.
Sam Ismail wrote:
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Doug Yowza wrote:
There's one word that sums all this up: Edsel.
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It's already happening. Most people that
I've talked to that had to use
the Altair hated it because of design problems. The Apple Lisa failed
because it was too slow. It's kind of self-fullfilling rarity: a bad
computer generally means one that they didn't make many of and not many
people wanted to buy. The PC-Jr will probably be a prized collectible.
One more thing: it is sort of ironic that total flops are only popular
today by way of their obscurity