tangerinedream
Density of Sound
The Apple Pippin sounds like the funniest idea in the world. Surely they only sold about 4.
25 Worst Tech Products of All Time
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EastEnder
Brixton Barnacle
Ohhh, I'd forgotten about the much touted push technology!Loki said:
I remember when 'channels' were going to be the next "Big Thing"....
Unsurprising really - when you get big firms used to sending out content over traditional media to a passive audience, it was only to be expected that they'd adopt the same model for the new fangled t'internet.
Ironically, in recent times technologies such as RSS have succeeded, to an extent, in doing what the big boys never managed. And what do you know - it's an open source, opt-in paradigm. Might be on to something there....
dylanredefined
Not a house elf a tiger
Agree .What was so bad about aol it worked? Ok its years since I used it but cant remeber any horrors apart from not connecting often .Chemical needs said:Sony NetMD and the software to go with it
EastEnder
Brixton Barnacle
I cannot believe you asked that!!!!dylanredefined said:
Ohhh, I'd really like some smegging behemoth of a system usurping crappy app that tries to force me to use it's own browser, clogs up my machine with crap, has that irritating as fuck bird saying "Welcome to AOL", etc.....
Even when I finally managed to uninstall it, it kindly left behind a fuck off massive "reinstall" file, just in case I changed my mind......
First against the wall, and all that....
Only once you've shot any Compuserve execs still alive & kickingEastEnder said:
The only way you could afford their subs yourself was with an offline reader to keep the connection charges down. I went the easy route first and got work to pay for it, but even they started moaning once we did the first $100 month
Ground Elder
Well-Known Member
What did the Disney The Lion King CD-ROM do to be included at number 6 ?
e2a I googled so now I know, but its very dull
?e2a I googled so now I know, but its very dull
Ground Elder said:What did the Disney The Lion King CD-ROM do to be included at number 6
It didn't work very well. Apparently PCs crashed all over the world on Christmas day as a result of it using a new graphic engine called WinG which hadn't been tested that well, but on the positive side it did introduce future MS users to the BSOD
fishfingerer
sultan of cringe
DBase IV is the worst programming language I've ever had to use.
Anyone remember Lenslok?
Anyone remember Lenslok?
tangerinedream
Density of Sound
tangerinedream said:
No, but please, the Apple pippin!, please - it's the worst invention ever, as a mac owner in 96 I wished I could play games, but hey...
So Apple invents a games console where I can play exactly the same games as that which i can already play.....
ah well....
dylanredefined
Not a house elf a tiger
Well its along time since I used aol must have reppressed the horror 
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KeyboardJockey
Clowns to the Left of me
Another vote for AOL
Yup. I used this on Sunday morning for the first time in ages and it is most definitely shit.
I couldn't even log on to Urban with it.
Yup. I used this on Sunday morning for the first time in ages and it is most definitely shit.
I couldn't even log on to Urban with it.
tangerinedream
Density of Sound
cybertect said:They didn't sell a single one - the ones Apple built were technology demonstration units.
Which is kind of what I was hinting at
Unless you count one sale to Bandai - who licensed the technology and sold their own Pippin consoles
SO the apple pippin isn't really a product as such (in the consumer sense)
fishfingerer
sultan of cringe
That was it yeah. I used hacked copies of the games from somewhere though.EastEnder said:Was that anything like those daft bits of red plastic you had to hold over the screen to read the access code for Spectrum games???
Fiendishly difficult to crack, unless you happened to have any old random bit of red plastic lying around........
G. Fieendish
Snark Hunter
I see that no one's mentioned Sony's Data MD format yet....
Other worst tech products must include the Matrix DVD, whose use of conditional branching extensions at the time, resulted in many DVD players, either being have to be replaced or repaired, including my first player, a Samsung DVD-707.....
Other worst tech products must include the Matrix DVD, whose use of conditional branching extensions at the time, resulted in many DVD players, either being have to be replaced or repaired, including my first player, a Samsung DVD-707.....
spacemonkey
I Love Noodles
Sony's Sonicstage software, an abhorrent little shit that you were forced to use with the Hi-MD music players. It was the bane of my life for years.
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
I was lucky. I failed to resurrect a colleague's 40 gig drive, but I have two I bought in 2001 that are still going strong.Wintermute said:I had an IBM "Deathstar". It died
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
I didn't think they ever officially launched itG. Fieendish said:
If they'd made a drive I would have snapped up several for work.
spacemonkey
I Love Noodles
gentlegreen said:I didn't think they ever officially launched it
If they'd made a drive I would have snapped up several for work.
The 1gb Hi-MD i mentioned in my last post was as close as they came I think. The software let you convert regular md's in data discs as well, they held 250mb roughly iirc. Pants though, i only bought one cos my old mini-disc player got pinched and the shiny world of hard-disc players were still out of my price range.
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