Who did we lose this decade?

[Steve]

As the decade draws to a close, let's take a moment to look back on who fizzled out, went under, got bought out, or was simply a flash in the pan. Anything computer or otherwise tech-related:

Iwill
A maker of server and high-end workstation motherboards, eventually acquired by Flextronics in 2006:

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/mainboards/display/20060803120218.html

http://www.happyware.de/out/1/html/0/dyn_images/z1/iw-dk88_z1.jpg

Soyo
I suspect most people will remember them for their DRAGON motherboards, but I managed to somehow win a 19" LCD of theirs online a few years back (at this very forum!). Anyway they filed for Chapter 7 this year: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyo_Group

http://www.bytesizedreviews.com/ben/platinum/board.jpg

Packard Bell
Popularly reputed as the worst PC maker ever, sued by Compaq in the 90s for selling new systems with refurb parts without disclosure; Compaq also sold systems this way but disclosed it. Packard Bell pulled out of the US in 2000:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packard_bell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Packard_bell_m400.jpg

Okay, who else?

EDIT:
Monarch Computers
Once a popular system builder and online/storefront retailer based in Georgia, their reputation began tarnishing as customer service was neglected. They closed up around spring of 2007 after months of complaints gone unrectified. Simply Googling their name now brings up allegations of shady inside management, some even from supposed former employees.

A few months back I picked up some computer part for free off Craigslist, and the guy also offered me a nearly complete PC for free (minus hard drive). I took it, it's a Monarch Systems PC.

Abit
A popular motherboard maker for enthusiasts and overclockers, but they encountered financial troubles in 2005 and were bought out in 2006. The parent company dissolved the brand in 2009:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_abit

http://www.mepisguides.com/Mepis-7/hardware-reports/abit-nf7s-3200/NF7-S_pic6.jpg


Locked at OP's request.

bamacre (Forum Director)

 

[Syringer]

ABit BH6 ftw.

 

[guyver01]

<sigh>

The decade doesn't end till 2010.. 2011 starts the NEW decade.

There was no year zero. we count years 1-10

 

[KLin]

ABit BH6 and celery 300a@450mhz ftw.

Yea

 

[her209]

<sigh>

The decade doesn't end till 2010.. 2011 starts the NEW decade.

There was no year zero. we count years 1-10

Well, we counted 2000 as the start of a new decade, no?

 

[Steve]

Looks like we won't be losing pedantic fucks anytime soon.

 

[guyver01]

Well, we counted 2000 as the start of a new decade, no?

um.. no.

2001 was the start of the new millenium, and new decade.

 

[guyver01]

Looks like we won't be losing pedantic fucks anytime soon.

and looks like we wont be losing ignorant self-absorbed fucks either.

win/win

 

[Ns1]

Whoa, really surprised by ABIT, Soyo, and Iwill. I've had a number of their mboards in the past, especially ABIT.

 

[Red Squirrel]

<sigh>

The decade doesn't end till 2010.. 2011 starts the NEW decade.

There was no year zero. we count years 1-10

That logic makes no sense.

If you're timing something, it starts, when it starts. You put something in the microwave for 2 minutes, the first minute starts at 0, not 1. At 1, a minute already elapsed so the 2nd one is about to start.

 

[Steve]

and looks like we wont be losing ignorant self-absorbed fucks either.

win/win

Way to shit up an otherwise perfectly good thread with harping on a minor, meaningless point. Let's run this shit into the ground! Fucking ATOTers...

No, let's get back on track. Adding to the list:

CompUSA
Circuit City

 

[her209]

Bear Sterns

 

[Ns1]

n/m

 

[guyver01]

That logic makes no sense.

that logic makes perfect sense.
a decade is a period of ten years.

there ... was ... no ... year ... zero.

so the first "year" was year 1.
so the first decade was year 1 - year 10.

age does not begin counting at zero.

did you celebrate your 0th birthday? no.
you started counting your birth days at 1.

age of ANYTHING begins at 1.

 

[guyver01]

Way to make me look stupid by pointing out i dont know how to count.
Fucking ATOTers...

fixed that for ya.

 

[Steve]

Fuck. Just lock it up. I give up on this place.

 

[her209]

If there is no year zero...

1-10 = 1 decade

thus 2001 - 2010 = 1 decade

Except everyone counts the decade 0-9. No one cares that there was no year 0.

 

[guyver01]

Fuck. Just lock it up. I give up on this place.

there's the door...

noone's stopping ya

 

[dighn]

that logic makes perfect sense.
a decade is a period of ten years.

there ... was ... no ... year ... zero.

so the first "year" was year 1.
so the first decade was year 1 - year 10.

age does not begin counting at zero.

did you celebrate your 0th birthday? no.
you started counting your birth days at 1.

age of ANYTHING begins at 1.

However, when one refers to the "80's" for example, the time interval of [1980 1 1, 1989 12 31] is implied. Therefore it is conceivable that the OP intended for the decade to start on 2000 1 1. AFAIK there is no established convention on this.

I urge the OP to clearly define "this decade" to avoid further confusion.

 

[DrawninwarD]

that logic makes perfect sense.
a decade is a period of ten years.

there ... was ... no ... year ... zero.

so the first "year" was year 1.
so the first decade was year 1 - year 10.

age does not begin counting at zero.

did you celebrate your 0th birthday? no.
you started counting your birth days at 1.

age of ANYTHING begins at 1.

When someone is born, how old are they? They are ZERO years old. And that is their first year of life.

When they have completed that year, they are one year old, and begin their second year of life. When they stop being nine and turn ten, they have lived for ten years, or a full decade.


So in this sense, the new millenium, the whole y2k shit, began in 2000. The start of a new decade. Now, 9.9something years have passed. 2009, as soon as it ends, will mark the end of the 10th year. And then we'll start the new decade. It's not 2011, it's going to be 2010.

 

[Red Squirrel]

that logic makes perfect sense.
a decade is a period of ten years.

there ... was ... no ... year ... zero.

so the first "year" was year 1.
so the first decade was year 1 - year 10.

age does not begin counting at zero.

did you celebrate your 0th birthday? no.
you started counting your birth days at 1.

age of ANYTHING begins at 1.

0 is just not really "written" but it's there. Your "0th birthday" is coming out of the wound. When you turn 1 then it's year 1. Year 1 means a whole year has elapsed.

 

[guyver01]

However, when one refers to the "80's" for example, the time interval of [1980 1 1, 1989 12 31] is implied. Therefore it is conceivable that the OP intended for the decade to start on 2000 1 1. AFAIK there is no established convention on this.

I urge the OP to clearly define "this decade" to avoid further confusion.

the 80's may refer to the period of 1980 - 1989..
however the 980th decade is the period of 1981 - 1990

perhaps the OP should restate to "who did we lose in the past 10 years" if he wanted to cover the period of 2000 - 2009.

 

[guyver01]

When someone is born, how old are they? They are ZERO years old. And that is their first year of life.

lol.. when you see a new baby.. do you say "happy 0th birthday" ?

noone says a newborn baby is zero years old.

a newborn baby is ... x amount of days, or minutes or hours or whatever old.. where x is a number greater than 1.

 

[KK]

that logic makes perfect sense.
a decade is a period of ten years.

there ... was ... no ... year ... zero.

so the first "year" was year 1.
so the first decade was year 1 - year 10.

age does not begin counting at zero.

did you celebrate your 0th birthday? no.
you started counting your birth days at 1.

age of ANYTHING begins at 1.

Bullshit on the last part. So when I popped out of my mothers vagina I was one year old?

 

[guyver01]

Bullshit on the last part. So when I popped out of my mothers vagina I was one year old?

no.

you were one second old.

you weren't zero years old.