Flashback Podcast
1) 25: On PC Clones & The End of the Road for IBM’s Personal Computer Business
IBM quickly lost control of the market it had helped create, going from industry-leader to quietly exiting the personal computer business in just a couple of decades.
25: On PC Clones & The End of the Road for IBM’s Personal Computer Business
38:49 | Jan 6th, 2022
2) 24: Later IBM PC Models
The first IBM PC kicked off what would be a line of computers that would be sold through the 1980s. This week, Quinn and Stephen hit the high points of this beige wave.
3) 23: IBM's Search for an Operating System
With its PC built, IBM needed to find an operating system that would run on it. Its choice would change the computer industry forever.
4) 22: Building the Personal Computer
The IBM Personal Computer was developed in a shockingly short period of time. This time, Quinn and Stephen discuss the machine's hardware as well as some of the company's earlier attempts at personal ...Show More
5) 21: The International Business Machines Corporation
This season on Flashback, Quinn and Stephen are covering the rise — and fall — of IBM's PC business, but first: some background on the enormous company that Apple and so many others lived in the shado...Show More
6) 20: Windows Vista
The story of Windows Vista is a complicated one. Born from a long and troubled development cycle, it wasn't free of problems at launch, but hardware OEMs and others didn't do much to help its reputati...Show More
7) 19: The Apple Lisa
In the early 1980s, Apple launched a computer with a GUI and mouse ... that wasn't the Macintosh.
8) 15: The Motorola RAZR
This week, Quinn and Stephen talk about one of the world's first cool phones, and how its parent company was bent on destroying its good name.
9) 14: OS/2
In an effort to keep Microsoft from controlling the PC software industry, in the 1980s, IBM created OS/2, an operating system meant to give its computers a competitive advantage.
10) 13: The CrunchPad
In 2008, a vision for a simple, browser-based tablet as born. Just a few years later, after failed lawsuits and rip-off products, no one had anything to show for their work.