Eagle Computer: The rise and fall of an early PC clone(dfarq.homeip.net)
49 pointsby giuliomagnifico8 hours ago5 comments
  • bananamogul3 hours ago
    LGR did a nice video on the history of Eagle: https://youtu.be/0wdunM5XZwo?si=eDINPvrYZl6QQsEo
  • jerome-jh5 hours ago
    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.

    • RetroTechie5 hours ago
      > 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-systeman hour ago
        Ah that button is just to adjust the clock.
  • ge963 hours ago
    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).
    • Aperocky2 hours ago
      Apologies since this sounds traumatic, but in this case, would zoom + docusign not have ate the business eventually?
      • ge962 hours ago
        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

  • zevv7 hours ago
    Halt And Catch Fire!
  • thenthenthen6 hours ago
    I am curious as to where they produced their clones