Technology Failures in History, Today

John Dvorak rattles off a list of the Ten Worst Laptops in History and says:

We need a publicly maintained resource — such as a wiki — detailing the history some of these old machines.

So I obliged him, and started a page on Computing History. Below are links to let you build upon his entries.

1. The Gavilan (1983)
2. Zenith Minisport (1989)
3. Apple iBook (1999)
4. Compaq laptops with screen trackballs (circa 1994)
5. IBM ThinkPad 701C "Butterfly" (1995)
6. Category failure: Ultra-small, full-featured machines
7. Category failure: Pad-based computers
8. Macintosh Portable (1989)
9. Dell 320i (circa 1993)
10. Gateway Handbook (circa 1992)

If the entries build themselves, I'll move it to its own wiki, or just contribute it to Wikipedia.