Things which really died a death.

[alorotom]

LordGrover said:

JagerT said:

Anybody mentioned Sinclair C5

Just once or twice...

MYOB said:

gus607 said:

Sinclair C5, massive failure.

This was the first thing I thought of.

Oddly there is one sat in the corner of the solicitors reception area that I am using for some convenyancing at the moment - I was surprised to see it, the Mrs didn’t have a clue what it was

[robemcdonald]

UKIP

[Gameface]

Microsofts answer to the iPod... The Zune.

[popegregory]

The Darkness

[Monkeylegend]

Grammar, handwriting, manners, respect, basic maths,

Well that's about summarised PH in five words

[kambites]

Gameface said:

Microsofts answer to the iPod... The Zune.

MP3 players in general I'd have thought. Doesn't everyone use their phone these days?

[jmorgan]

[redacted]

[mp3manager]

Spastic charity boxes.

They were everywhere in the 70's.

[EarlOfHazard]

Pagers

And Max Power, the car mod magazine.

[mp3manager]

Zip discs, the 3 inch CD single, the CDV single, DV tapes, LaserDisc, Minidisc, Super Audio CD and I own all of them.

[Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah]

mp3manager said:

Spastic charity boxes.

They were everywhere in the 70's.

Quite apt really, as Spastic has turned in to a derogatory term. So much so that the Spastics Society needed to rebrand as Scope.

[underwhelmist]

Most formats that Sony have tried to impose on the market - Betamax, Minidisk, memory sticks (proprietary Sony ones, not standard usb), Super Audio CD, there are probably others. Was DAT a Sony format?

It’s not that they were necessarily bad formats, but other manufacturers either never bothered or weren’t allowed to support them. Maybe the licensing costs were prohibitive.

Edited for grammar which hasn’t yet died of death!

Edited by underwhelmist on Tuesday 15th May 19:23

[48k]

Surprised no one's mentioned minidisc's or the Sinclair C5 yet.

[dudleybloke]

Loom bands.

[anonymous-user]

FireWire... I think USB won.

[mattyn1]

Manners is a good one!

My contribution is coffee bags.

[underwhelmist]

Another one - DVD-audio which was the competitor to SACD. One of them was supposed to replace CDs but neither took off.

Oh, and minidiscs and Sinclair c5s.

[HTP99]

Instant tea.

[jmorgan]

underwhelmist said:

Most formats that Sony have tried to impose on the market - Betamax, Minidisk, memory sticks (proprietary Sony ones, not standard usb), Super Audio CD, there are probably others. Was DAT a Sony format?

It’s not that they were necessarily bad formats, but other manufacturers either never bothered or weren’t allowed to support them. Maybe the licensing costs were prohibitive.

Edited for grammar which hasn’t yet died of death!

Edited by underwhelmist on Tuesday 15th May 19:23

Sort of a relative of Betamax went on to dominate the the news gathering etc. for sometime, betacam and it’s derivitives.

Thing is now, it’s mpeg and other compression types etc. And a digital record and transport.

Edit. I think that means most physical storage will go digital rather than manufacture specific holding sway.

Edited by jmorgan on Tuesday 15th May 19:46

[Ayahuasca]

tuffer said:

Cable & Wireless. A global network, incumbent Telco in many Countries, fleet of cable laying ships........Boom.

I wish. My cellphone, landline and internet is run by Cable and Wireless and I have a loathe / hate relationship with them.