Flashback

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Flashback Podcast

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.

  1. 06/01/2022

    On PC Clones & The End of the Road for IBM’s Personal Computer Business

    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.

    39 min

  2. 03/12/2021

    Later IBM PC Models

    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.

    46 min

  3. 23/11/2021

    IBM's Search for an Operating System

    With its PC built, IBM needed to find an operating system that would run on it. Its choice would change the computer industry forever.

    26 min

  4. 04/11/2021

    Building the Personal Computer

    The IBM Personal Computer was developed in a shockingly short period of time. This time, Quinn and Stephen discuss the machine's hardware as well as some of the company's earlier attempts at personal computers.

    28 min

  5. 21/10/2021

    The International Business Machines Corporation

    This season on Flashback, Quinn and Stephen are covering the rise — and fall — of IBM's PC business, but first: some background on the enormous company that Apple and so many others lived in the shadow of back in the 80s.

    45 min

  6. 03/06/2021

    Windows Vista

    The story of Windows Vista is a complicated one. Born from a long and troubled development cycle, it wasn't free of problems at launch, but hardware OEMs and others didn't do much to help its reputation.

    48 min

  7. 21/05/2021

    The Apple Lisa

    In the early 1980s, Apple launched a computer with a GUI and mouse ... that wasn't the Macintosh.

    38 min

  8. 06/05/2021

    The Google Graveyard Draft

    Google has a knack for shutting down products. This episode, Stephen and Quinn talk about a handful of them.

    1h 10m
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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.

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  • Channel
    Relay FM
  • Creator
    Relay FM
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2022
  • Episodes
    26
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    Copyright © 2024 Relay FM
  • Show Website
    Flashback

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