What they were: The printer you probably owned if you had a PC in the house any time from the late 1970s until the early to mid-1990s.
Hey, they may all be inanimate objects, but they meant a lot to some of us back in the day. If you’re like me, you will be pleasantly surprised to learn that some of these products are still with us at all-and will be saddened by the fates of others. I focused on items that remain extant-if “extant� means that they remain for sale, in one way or another-and didn’t address products that, while no longer blockbusters, retain a reasonably robust U.S.
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Some are specific hardware and software classics some are services that once had millions of subscribers and some are entire categories of stuff that were once omnipresent. Or obsessive fans refuse to accept that they’re obsolete-long after the rest of the world has moved on.įor this story-which I hereby dedicate to Richard Lamparski, whose “Whatever Became of…?â€? books I loved as a kid-I checked in on the whereabouts of 25 famous technology products, dating back to the 1970s. Or their names get slapped on new products that are available only outside the U.S. They stay on the market-even though they haven’t been updated in eons. - Old computer products, like old soldiers, never die.
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