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The newton comes to mind, a hand held touch screen device that was launched a decade before the palm pilot fulfilling no use and being extremely expensive. Flash forward 30 years and everyone has a touch screen mobile computer in their pocket, but the newton was a complete failure.
TIL Self is still around.
I did not know that existed! Wiki link for those interested.
Apparently the recognition of handwriting was quite bad. I wonder how many still exist