The biggest flop

A few of the sites that I visit regularly (gizmodo, engadget, and crave to name a few) all have coverage of 10 Biggest Computer Flops of all time. This is a first so I had to check the list out. I was very surprise as to what make the top two entries of the list. I wonder how many of the "flops" the author of the list has actually hand-on experience with. I had actually have the pleasure of working on the NeXT computer. No only was the hardware very fast, the OS (NEXTSTEP) is one of the best that I have ever worked with (and I have woked with a few since I have been working in the IT industry for a long time). Yes, commercally speaking NeXT was not a successful. But its technology is still around. It is the basis of Mac OS X after NexT was bought by Apple when Steve Jobs returned to save the company he founded. The only thing that was worse than puting NeXT at number two is to put the Xerox Alto at number one. I still remember the times when computer users all used terminals to connect to large, centralized computers (I told you I have been in IT for a long time). The Alto was way ahead of it times and praved the way for WYSIWYG, GUI, point-and-click computing. Yes, it didn't make Xerox any money. But it is research like this that makes the US the leader in high-tech. The transistor did not make AT&T (Bell Labs) any money, so is it one of the biggest flop in electronics? I would definitely not call them mistakes, they are actaully early versions (call them beta if you like) of two of the biggest successes in computing history. If anyone is going to start a list of the ten biggest flop in making a top ten list, I would like to nominate this list to the list.