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What are the biggest tech bombs of all time? (Page 2)
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Originally Posted by Zimphire
Tapes were actually pretty crappy too.
Wore out too soon, weren't too durable, etc.
Actually CDs aren't that great either.
they could make a CD that didn't get scratched.
Yes but they got huge consumer support and made TONS of money. That is not a bomb.
Like Windows, it sucks beans but makes billions.
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& another vote for the Segway
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Originally Posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker
Beta tapes, Laserdisc, 8 track.
Beta was huge in Japan.
Laserdisc was huge all over Asia.
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Originally Posted by Zimphire
No, whoever bought one felt/feels like a moron.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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-Sega Dream Cast (bad marketing, crap timing but excellent games)
-Nintendo 64 (8Meg cartridge lol)
-Sony's ATRAC format what can i say
-Sony's Mini Disk (how sad i spent $750 AU for one, and it broke in 5 months)
-APPLES 1-Button wireless MOUSE (still cant get over it)
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Laserdisc sold from 1979 to about 2000. Doesn't sound like a failure to me.
8-tracks were around from 1960 to about 1982. Nope. Not there.
Apple Cube. HUGE failure.
The Segway.
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Apple's CyberDog browser...
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The gene pool needs cleaning - I'll be the chlorine.
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Can't say it was the worst, but the Nintendo Power Glove was pretty bad. Here's the best pic of it (well the box it came in) I could find:
And a good representation of what it really was:
I have to admit that I did own one. I thought it was a very cool looking thing but never could get it to work very well. At least not as well as the kid in "The Wizard". LOL! 
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I was gonna say Mr. Clippy, but…
Originally Posted by Zimphire
What on earth is that?
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Originally Posted by Angelo78
I have to admit that I did own one. I thought it was a very cool looking thing but never could get it to work very well. At least not as well as the kid in "The Wizard". LOL!
Ahh ****. I was trying to repress the memories of that movie.
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Originally Posted by cjrivera
"Fat Man" and "Little Boy"
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Originally Posted by CreepingDeth
What on earth is that?
eWorld, Apple's rebranded version of America Online.
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Oh hey how boutt the redesigned c|net owned MP3.com!
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Oh...and as far as the segway is concerned, I think it's just ahead of it's time.
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Atari computers. It was a great concept and they were quite powerful. I liked that the whole computer was in the keyboard.
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I'll nominate the Mars Climate Orbiter
The Mars Climate Orbiter Spacecraft was lost because one Nasa team used imperial units while another used metric units for a key spacecraft operation.
That just has to be the stupidest blunder in tech history.
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How about Lockheed's blunder with the Genesis space capsule? They installed the parachute gravity switches backwards. The $254 million probe crashed somewhere in Utah.
Genesis
System errors were by far biggest tech bombs of all time.
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^ Dammit! I was just planning to post one of those as soon as I saw the thread title.
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