[Descenterace]

Ah yes, the Zip Click of Death.

I'd have to say that none of that list is in the least unexpected.

[achtung]

Weren't zip drives prone to burning up quite easily?

I know mine did, and my neighbors did.  Mine being internal, his being external.

Pertaining to the article, it's nice to see PCWorld actually making a list that was, probably, bribe free.

[Sandwich]

I had a Jaz drive once. It died quite rapidly.

[Scooby_Doo]

They should replace zip drives with floppy's 
Look at them wrong and you'll get bad sectors all over the place LOL

[Bobboau]

the problem I had with zip drives was each disk cost ten bucks.

[aldo_14]

Zip drive was the computing equivalent of the MiniDisc, I guess.

[vyper]

* vyper still has a zip drive in his tower - tis just not connected to anything.

Edit: MiniDisc had potential. Such a shame it was never adopted properly.

[aldo_14]

* vyper still has a zip drive in his tower - tis just not connected to anything.

Edit: MiniDisc had potential. Such a shame it was never adopted properly.

It was almost immediately superceded by MP3, though; IIRC the 2 use identical compression strategies and everything, so once you could get affordable flash memory there wasn't much point in it.  My hifi actually has an MD slot, which cost good money (on top of the price you'd expect).

[Flipside]

I had a 20 Gig Iomega Zip drive. Thing was too slow to be any real use except during a reformat, but it was, actually, pretty reliable. Totally useless these days, mind.

No-one's come out with any truly stupid tech innovations since Clive Sinclair retired though. I mean, the C5, Heat Sensitive printer-rolls, launching a tape-streamer 2 weeks after Amstrad launch the 6128 with built-in disc drive? For a man who shaped the computing world, he sure had to fire a lot of blanks...

They just don't make 'em like him any more

[Colonol Dekker]

Top 5 tech wrongies>
1- Phillips i-CD
2--Sega Mega-CD
3- Sega 32X
4- Ummm? Eurotunnel (gotta keep them pesky frenc out)
5- Dreamcast   That actually had some fun games
5 - Viagra If it doesn't work properly, Thats god/ Darwin giving you a subtle hint

[karajorma]

Sir Clive took a very scattershot approach to research. He just made what he thought was cool without regards as to whether anyone else thought so. The result was that he came up with some dross that no one else would want as well as inventing the pocket calculator and home computer.

[aldo_14]

Sir Clive took a very scattershot approach to research. He just made what he thought was cool without regards as to whether anyone else thought so. The result was that he came up with some dross that no one else would want as well as inventing the pocket calculator and home computer.

Well, at least he can take heart that all those years after the C5, someone can invent something even worse - the Segway.

[Flipside]

It's sad to see the adverts in computer mags for Sinclair and Son's Mail-Order computer games... How the mighty have fallen

[Mars]

See, what I've never understood with the Segway is, if it costs the same as a really good, useful, fuel efficent car, why not just go for the car?

[aldo_14]

See, what I've never understood with the Segway is, if it costs the same as a really good, useful, fuel efficent car, why not just go for the car?

It's for fat americans too lazy to walk.  Which, I guess, is a growth market.

[Colonol Dekker]

Its THE "growth" market..

[vyper]

To quote homer simpson: "I wish I had a dog with a saddle."

The segway comes close.

[aldo_14]

To quote homer simpson: "I wish I had a dog with a saddle."

The segway comes close.

It was crippled, I presume, by the fact you had to actually stand up to use it.

[vyper]

Indeed. Seeking such power between ones legs really does scream over-compensation...

[Black Wolf]

That said, I forsee the technology behind the segway having some practical use in the future - perhaps in robotics.