Flashback

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TECHNOLOGY

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.

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
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.

26 min
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
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
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
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
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
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.