Vanished/discontinued/out of stock products

Posted by pq11333@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 16 comments

What is one tech tool or product that was made that was amazing, and you loved it, everyone else did to and the company was clearly selling a $hit load of them but then it vanished? For me it has to be the Microsoft wireless display adapter. Like why is it out of stock for 2 years now ugh.

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Bretski12@reddit

Not my favorite, but nearly every ergo user in my org is pissed we don't carry MS Sculpt M/K combos anymore. Guess they were pretty good, minus the fact that if the dongle breaks it's just ewaste.

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masterne0@reddit

I tried it at a microsoft store. It ok but I don't like that it wireless for my home office use.

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masterne0@reddit

The old Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard 4000. Not really a tech tool per say but I have to say it the best keyboard (and still is) for myself and some of my clients that uses this keyboard. When it was swapped to the updated version, it wasn't the same and then they discontinued the entire line which made me sad. I have both a new unopened 2.0 Microsoft Keyboard in a drawer that i haven't opened and also a spare Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 I took from a client office where the person that had it no longer was with the firm. Their some other ergonomic keyboards that similar but I don't like them, specially the palmrest as it doesn't feel the same (similar ones seem to not have a palmrest at all or it all plastic while the microsoft one has a leather like cushion).

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deanmass@reddit

Imagecast. Mid 90’s Simple IP based system imaging.

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AussieTerror@reddit

was way better than Ghost.

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deanmass@reddit

And so much less- I was a sysadmin k12-An imagecast site license for a 1000 machines was $999

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Altusbc@reddit

Stacker disk compression software. Purchased this way back in 1992 to double the size of my 52MB HD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stac_Electronics

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KAugsburger@reddit

I remember using Stacker and DriveSpace. It was pretty neat way to be able to get more data stored on the same disk when hard drives were significantly more expensive than they are now. I do remember that there was a pretty noticeable performance hit for applications that required a lot of disk reads.

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catherder9000@reddit

Yeah, but a 1 TB drive costs the same as Stacker, so that explains that. =P

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OcotilloWells@reddit

I remember driving past their building on the freeway, thinking how cool it was to be near such an innovative company. Stac Electronics

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WeleaseBwianThrow@reddit

The Wyse RDP Android App. I never have to rdp from my phone now, and I rarely did back then, but when you did that thing was a godsend of user experience

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jstuart-tech@reddit

Windows 7, Windows XP

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Floh4ever@reddit

I'd add Windows 10 pre co-pilot/ai. Maybe even the Windows 10 Preview back before it was released. I remember it having a very similar virtual desktop feature as windows 11 has now. Somehow never made it out of preview in W10

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LRS_David@reddit

Dan Bricklin's Page Garden. I may have the name wrong. It was a way to feed structured repetitive text through a formatter for laser printers. Before GUIs took over the universe. It was simple to use, clean and elegant.

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michaelpaoli@reddit

Oh, I don't know about amazing/loved but ... dealt with a terminal server ... bit older ... needed to reset the admin password, documentation ... there's a procedure for that ... you reboot it ... blah blah ... get a certain temporary code it displays at boot, put that in at a certain web URL, get a temporary password back, use that within a certain amount of time and ... reset. Uhm, ... except vanished / discontinued ... the domain of that URL gone, and no replacement, and no, not something one could use from The Internet Archive. Yeah, run into fair bit of crud like that. Though sometimes there are fairly easy work-arounds, e.g. a carrier/ISP and their modem/router device - bit older ... it says to go to such and such URL to access the web page to configure/administer it ... yeah, that domain is gone ... so ... just scanned the subnet lookin' for open ports 80 and 443, found it, noted the IP - just use the IP and all is good.

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IceCubicle99@reddit

VMware, 2-years from now.....