COLD STORAGE — THE UNFILED

One fund returned the same steady number for decades, because there were no trades.

A coin held to one dollar by algorithm, until the day it was asked to; ~$40B gone in a week.

The truck in the launch film moved under its own power, in the sense that the road was sloped.

233 years old, undone by one trader in Singapore and an account numbered 88888 that nobody opened.

A national champion of speech technology, its Korean revenue largely invented.

Declined Google for a few million, declined Microsoft's $44 billion, and was sold for scraps to a phone company.

Six seconds and an entire culture, left to starve and switched off by the company that bought it.

Reached into segregated customer accounts to cover its own bets; ~$1.6B of client money went missing.

Invented the digital camera in 1975 and filed the invention where it could do no harm.

Instant film, made obsolete by a screen that was instant and free.

Kept the keyboard one generation after the world stopped needing keys.

Profitable stores, killed by buyout debt and by a competitor that never opened one.

Sold over a weekend for two dollars a share; the first domino, six months early.

"The flying bank," grounded on the tarmac when the cash ran out.

Reached every farmhouse in America a century before Amazon, then was disassembled for its real estate.

Was going to reorganize the city around itself; ended under mall security guards.

A $165 billion merger of the past and the future, in which both lost.

Burned $135 million in eighteen months on a page most computers of the day could not load.

Gullwing doors, a stainless body, and a founder arrested in a cocaine deal staged to save the company.

Invented the graphical interface, the mouse, and the networked office, and kept essentially none of it.