Eagle Computer: The rise and fall of an early PC clone(dfarq.homeip.net)

60 pointsby giuliomagnificomese scorso9 comments

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Eagle Computer: The rise and fall of an early PC clone

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In the small town were I lived as a teenager, there was a successful garage owner who had a Ferrari. It was during the early 90's. One evening after a dinner at a restaurant with friends, a young woman insists to come back as a passenger in the Ferrari. They were later found dead in the crashed Ferrari, which took fire. The woman was in the driver seat. So it seems the woman later insisted to drive the car.

The cautionary tale seems rather to be: if you have a Ferrari, _never_ let anybody else drive it.

RetroTechiemese scorso

> if you have a Ferrari, _never_ let anybody else drive it.

And don't let them press any button marked "Turbo Boost" (doubtful you'd find that in a Ferrari though).

kube-systemmese scorso

Ah that button is just to adjust the clock.

bananamogulmese scorso

LGR did a nice video on the history of Eagle: https://youtu.be/0wdunM5XZwo?si=eDINPvrYZl6QQsEo

ge96mese scorso

CEO death is a thing, I mean from my experience of a startup that died with a dying CEO... nobody sold the product like he did and when he was gone, yeah. Crazy I still have videos of us debugging our software (zoom + docu sign type product for F&I auto).

Aperockymese scorso

Apologies since this sounds traumatic, but in this case, would zoom + docusign not have ate the business eventually?

ge96mese scorso

Yeah it was kind of a bad venture because the people were trying to patent it like... you could easily reverse engineer the concept you know drag-drop render PDF on screen, sign it, websockets, webrtc video provider, etc...

Also their expenditure on money eg. a $30K wordpress site from some agency

thenthenthenmese scorso

I am curious as to where they produced their clones

zevvmese scorso

Halt And Catch Fire!