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They made a rather strange o2 laptop that never made it to production.

A number of legendary companies with great potential misstepped, GRiD, Blackberry, Be, MasPar, Thinking Machines, GO corp, Intergraph, heck go back to the Evans & Sutherland LDS-1 in 1969 or when BBN decided not to get into hardware after making the first internet hardware ever, the IMP. Or how about how SRI fumbled the ball after Englebarts work or SDS, who made a bunch of the NASA Apollo hardware.

The world is littered with great technology companies that didn't stick around because we determine success and failure by handshakes on the golf course.



Yeah, I saw the Indy-laptop once during a demo in Hollywood .. was definitely a clunky pile of junk.

You're right about that golfing handshake.


Sgi hardware wasn't that great from about o2 onwards. I used a lot of those machines and they were kinda dogs




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