[ale] 25 worst Products, I know a few, but not all

[Jim Popovitch]

I think she was a product designer/manager back in those days.

-Jim P.

KingBahamut wrote:
> Melinda Gates was a developer?
> 
> Why does that make me really really really scared.
> 
> 
> On 5/26/06, *Drag0n* < dragon at atlantacon.org 
> <mailto:dragon at atlantacon.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Microsoft BOB ( http://toastytech.com/guis/bob.html) was Bill Gates
>     wife's contribution to windows, it was a graphical dumbed down desktop.
>     It's also where the annoying dog in the search feature came from, as
>     well as clippy I believe.
>     And SoftRAM was a commercial ram doubler, but not a good one at that
>     ( http://www.ftc.gov/opa/1996/07/softram.htm )
> 
>     Drag0n
> 
> 
>     Michael Still wrote:
>      > IIRC SoftRAM was a virtual memory type technology.  I don't recall
>      > ever using it.  I think the premise was that it fooled DOS into
>      > thinking you had more RAM (extended) than you really had.
>      >
>      > On 5/26/06, KingBahamut <gwosbahamut at gmail.com
>     <mailto:gwosbahamut at gmail.com>> wrote:
>      >
>      >> I was going through PCworlds top 25 worst of all time Tech
>     Products. And I
>      >> have to ask, Linux Friends....wtf is this stuff?
>      >>
>      >> 9. Pressplay and MusicNet (2002)
>      >> 22. Apple Pippin @World (1996)
>      >> 7. Microsoft Bob (1995)
>      >> 3. Syncronys SoftRAM (1995)
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >> --
>      >> KingBahamut
>      >> Founder of the GWoS
>      >> All Around Geek
>      >> "I could tell you the probability, but you wouldnt like it."
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