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Soyuz is pretty reliable so far. Makes sense. The Americans want something grand. The Russians want to get to space. |
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I don't think you can describe rotary engines as a failure. There was problems with the early rotor tip seals but once developed and perfected (Mazda) they are very good powerful smooth engines.
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I don't think anyone's mentioned DCC, Digital Compact Cassette, yet. I remember it being launched with great fanfare but I've only ever seen one DCC machine in the wild. Its owner was just using it as a DAC!
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I nominate the Duga-3 Woodpecker array. Obviously no-one can now get near it, but also reliance on the fluctuating ionosphere before suitable compensation methods had been developed (is said to have) limited it's usefulness.
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MSDOS, well, prior to windows probably the most successful computer operating system ever, technically a mess but you can't argue that it wasn't successful. |
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9th Jun 2017, 10:36 am | #67 |
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Perhaps there should be another museum for things which were successful but should not have been. MSDOS and the 8086 architecture should be in there.
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9th Jun 2017, 10:45 am | #68 |
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The Sony Minidisc is a technology that seemed to have a very short life. I have a hi-fi player and disks but seems to have been made obsolete very quickly by the emergence of solid state music storage technology. The engineering was very good though.
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9th Jun 2017, 1:14 pm | #69 |
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I can't see how the RMS Olympic was a failure.
Does anyone know why HD-DVD and BluRay were 'rival formats', yet LP and the 'new unbreakable 45' jointly rendered the long-established 78 obsolete? |
9th Jun 2017, 1:24 pm | #70 |
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HD-DVD and Blue ray were rivals like VHS and Betamax Blue-Ray gained more support and then won, although that seems to be waning in the face of downloads. |
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9th Jun 2017, 3:33 pm | #73 |
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I don't consider Betamax a failure. Probably just as many going today as vhs.
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9th Jun 2017, 3:33 pm | #74 |
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Some failed tape formats to ponder;
Garrard & RCA Tape Cartridge Grundig Cassette DC launched alongside the Philips and disappeared quickly. The JVC Microcassette HiFI on a dictation size tape and the Elcaset mentioned earlier. In the face of downloads and solid state storage all recording formats seem destined to disappear soon except with forum members who like to keep them going! Chris |
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Surely failure is crashed and burned, or never really getting established. Being successful, but losing out to competition, or just becoming obsolete is natural selection, very little is immortal in the physical world. If Betamax was a failure, then 405 TV was too.
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9th Jun 2017, 4:34 pm | #76 |
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It had a much longer life in the AV industery. MD was the media of choice for backing tracks on most events I worked on upto just a few years ago.
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The 45 rpm single was deliberately designed to challenge the LP format; yet both became accepted. The same occurred, twice, in the home games console market. You had either SEGA or NINTENDO, and now SONY or X-BOX. We never heard of anyone 'not buying' until the 'format war is over'. So why are some products a battle to the death, and some just personal preference? |
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If you think the Apollo programme was a failure, then I think that your rationale is even less reasonable than those who think it was hoax. Speaking of the TU144, shall we put Concorde in the museum? It never sold anything like the projected numbers and one crashed and killed a lot of people due to a known vulnerabilty which was only fixed after the crash. I'd definately say no, but what do you think? Apollo, the Shuttle and Concorde all in the museum of failure ? B
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I'd include in the list the WorldSpace satellite radio platform. Although the static radio sets worked well, I don't think they ever got the mobile ones to market before the provider went bust. I don't know if the satellites were redeployed for some other use or abandoned. Stu |
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Far, far better than cassette-players! |
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