technological lemons from the past...

[Binary Shadow]

amigas were great, had an A500 then my mates got newer ones with hard drives (A1600?) and my eyes were so green lol

[Serious]

You could always add on a hard drive to an amiga 500 though.

[Pete]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_C5

[bear]

Zip was the only option fifteen years ago. I hate them as well, but I do like the cart design. CDs should come in such cases. A CDRW in a protective cart that goes rectly into a slot in your computer would be the shiznit.

Would be nice but expensive.
When I bought my zip drive my fastes machine was a 286 10 Mhz LoL
and it was really hard to make the drive work with that it really needed
a 386. But 100 Mb was a lot compared to HDDs of that time.

[bear]

The LS-120 SuperDisk did not catch on
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nor the Iomega Benoulli Box, yet they still tried again with Zip, Jazz and now Rev.

Youd have thought theyd eventually get the message?

How much is a Rev ? 70Gb backup is not that bad

[Mongoose]

neither was 20MB when Bernoulli came out, or 100 when Zip arrived, 1GB for Jazz.......

I dont know how much the new one costs, only saw an add banner for it somewhere and thought "oh no, not again, when will they LEARN!?"

Edit: on Dabs they are ~Ã,£200 for the drive and Ã,£35 each for the disks.

[neXus]

another disaster:

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and all other CD add-ons for consoles...

Alone in the dark, sewer shark, night trap etc. etc. - people didnt know what to do with CDs and while the data capacity to stream sh*te video was there, developers didnt have the power to use it or the experience to make it work in a game...

games like night trap were literally multiple choice games, where each choice showed a pre-set video... and people paid Ã,£40 for it!!!

Snatcher was cool thiugh

[bear]

neither was 20MB when Bernoulli came out, or 100 when Zip arrived, 1GB for Jazz.......

I dont know how much the new one costs, only saw an add banner for it somewhere and thought "oh no, not again, when will they LEARN!?"

Edit: on Dabs they are ~Ã,£200 for the drive and Ã,£35 each for the disks.

LoL, considering that you get a HDD 250Gb for around Ã,£50-60 that is to much.

[Mongoose]

neither was 20MB when Bernoulli came out, or 100 when Zip arrived, 1GB for Jazz.......

I dont know how much the new one costs, only saw an add banner for it somewhere and thought "oh no, not again, when will they LEARN!?"

Edit: on Dabs they are ~Ã,£200 for the drive and Ã,£35 each for the disks.

LoL, considering that you get a HDD 250Gb for around Ã,£50-60 that is to much.

yeah typical Iomega pricing TBH. I really dont understand how they dont go out of buisness.