18 May
2009
18 May
'09
8:50 p.m.
On Mon, 18 May 2009, Mark Tapley wrote:
Hello all,
FYI&D, an article on MSN tech & gadgets describing "25 Computer
products that refused to die".
http://tech.msn.com/howto/articlepcw.aspx?cp-documentid=19017036&page=1
The list is:
Dot-matrix printers
Hayes modems
Sony Minidiscs
Sony botched this one badly. It could have replaced the floppy disk years
before Iomega tried to do so with the Zip.
Packard-Bell
Ewww... Nasty!
Zip disks
I had a professor who said that Iomega names its products after the sound
the product makes when it dies.
Z80 CPU's
Yummy!
MS-DOS
I use FreeDOS nowadays. Someday really soon, I'll pull out one of my
older machines and turn it into a circa 1990 dream machine... running
FreeDOS. Does anyone else here maintain such machines?
PageMaker
I'm expecting a shipment of PageMaker for SunOS any day now. Remember
that post from October or so? The plan is to part out the packages to
people who wanted a single copy.
Egghead
When I first heard about Newegg, I thought it was Egghead coming back.
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