Top 10 Computer Flops of all time

Sunday, Oct. 22 2006 | Author: Griffith

Miguel Carrasco has written an interesting entry on his blog with his list of what he considers the biggest computer flops of all time. Here’s his list in short:

The Xerox Alto
NeXT computer
IBM PCjr
Apple Newton
Apple 3
Apple Lisa
Microsoft Windows ME
Microsoft Bob
IBM OS/2
Gary Kildall’s CP/M

So in short:
Apple flops - 3
Microsoft flops - 2
IBM flops - 2

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10 Responses for "Top 10 Computer Flops of all time"

Jeff Croft

October 22nd, 2006 at 12:19 pm
1

Steve Jobs flops: 3 (not the same three as the Apple flops).

:)
Marco (Griffith) Jardim

October 22nd, 2006 at 1:11 pm
2

True, true :)
Zake

October 22nd, 2006 at 3:42 pm
3

I have windows ME…
:(
Julian

October 22nd, 2006 at 5:50 pm
4

The more you risk the more you achieve.
Danny

October 22nd, 2006 at 6:10 pm
5

Julian, ain’t that the truth.

People like to trash others’ faliure

when they have achieved nothing.
Danny

October 22nd, 2006 at 6:11 pm
6

Lots of NeXT stuff is found in Mac OX X.

So, I won’t think of it as flop.

Success is built upon many failures.
Travis

October 24th, 2006 at 9:40 pm
7

I’m hesitant to call the the Xerox Alto a flop. It wasn’t commercial successful, but it wasn’t a commercial product, nor was it ever meant to be one. As a testbed for new modes of computing it seems to have done quite well, with the ideas it incorperated being pretty much standard in the computers of today.

I also am a little uncomfortable calling CP/M a flop. Was it really a failure? A loser perhaps, but that is not the same thing. I wouldn’t put it in the same category as the Newton, or NeXT or Lisa. Prior to losing out against Microsoft when Digital Research did not take advantage of IBM’s calling it was the most popular OS for personal computers. I wouldn’t call something a flop simply because it eventually lost a war to its competition. DR-DOS eventually came from, and that offered substantial competition to MS-DOS.
Benoit Brookens

October 29th, 2006 at 8:02 am
8

What happened to LINDOWS? I think the fact that they sold it in Walmart and other stores of the like, in addition to me mentioning it without a precedent means it’s a bigger flop than you once thought. :-)
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October 29th, 2006 at 8:04 am
9

RE: Danny

Alternatively, failure is built upon many successes. :-)
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