Meet the Microsoft graveyard of dead hardware

Rest in peace, Microsoft PC peripherals. You've probably heard of the Google Graveyard, the collection of apps, services and products that Google shut down before their time. But like any big company, Microsoft also tried and failed to make certain products work. In light of Microsoft's decision to discontinue PC peripherals like the Microsoft Sculpt Desktop Keyboard, let's look at some of the products that litter the Microsoft hardware graveyard. Microsoft made RAMCards, one of the first solid-state disks, for both the Apple II as well as the IBM PC in the early 1980s. Instead of non-volatile memory like today's SSDs, however, these were simply more like memory expansion cards, adding 16KB of RAM to an Apple II with 48KB already in place.