Flashback

By: Relay FM
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  • Not all tech products succeed once on the market, and some are killed off with little warning. Flashback looked back at failed tech products to see what we can learn by studying their demises. Hosted by Quinn Nelson and Stephen Hackett.
    Copyright © 2024 Relay FM
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Episodes
  • 25: On PC Clones & The End of the Road for IBM’s Personal Computer Business

    25: On PC Clones & The End of the Road for IBM’s Personal Computer Business
    Jan 6 2022
    IBM quickly lost control of the market it had helped create, going from industry-leader to quietly exiting the personal computer business in just a couple of decades.
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    39 mins
  • 24: Later IBM PC Models

    24: Later IBM PC Models
    Dec 3 2021
    The first IBM PC kicked off what would be a line of computers that would be sold through the 1980s. This week, Quinn and Stephen hit the high points of this beige wave.
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    46 mins
  • 23: IBM's Search for an Operating System

    23: IBM's Search for an Operating System
    Nov 23 2021
    With its PC built, IBM needed to find an operating system that would run on it. Its choice would change the computer industry forever.
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    26 mins

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