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07-27-2020, 12:06 PM | #1 |
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Future Tech that didn't make it?
There's always the latest thing that comes along, and seems like a good idea at the time. Stuff like rotary engines and Betamax players. Obviously not everyone rushed out and bought a 10 grand Apple Lisa. What else can you think of?
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07-27-2020, 01:58 PM | #5 |
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07-27-2020, 01:59 PM | #6 | |
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If Sony and Philips had collaborated as they did when they created the compact disc, this combined medium would have been pretty successful. I'll bring up other formats which got killed such as SACD and DVD-A. Another situation where Sony had to do their own thing and diluted the effort to build a high definition audio market. And the RIAA killed DAT with their lobbying of Congress to impose an automatic royalty on each blank DAT tape sold due to the possibility of it being involved in piracy along with the idiotic SCMS copy protection system forced upon all DAT recorders. |
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07-27-2020, 02:16 PM | #7 |
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A golden one for BMW was the Eta concept of a low rpm, high economy inline 6. Hard to imagine but back in the early '80s after the second fuel crisis the luxury brands didn't want to pay a gas guzzler tax. So Cadillac and Mercedes went for diesel. BMW was preparing a diesel, which Lincoln bought, but took the route of an economy focused gasoline engine instead. In came the 1982 528e and the e30 got one too eventually.
By the mid '80s the price of gas was in free fall, so goodbye Eta and hello Motorsport!The rest is history, lol. BMW's Eta concept |
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Zip Drives. At my last job we had still shrinked-wrapped boxes of them and a bunch of external drives.
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07-27-2020, 04:25 PM | #15 |
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Great topic! Curved TVs and 3DTVs come to mind.
Is it too early to add the BMW Connected app? ...just joking!
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But even before those were the Bernoulli drives. |
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