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nigga crab pollock posted:best android ive ever had is the moto x tho like the only thing that might break is the plastic back and you can replace that poo poo for $2 on ebay. ive had it for like two+ years and bought it used and it still works perfect. nothing has broken or spazzed out or started creaking. no phone ive owned has ever lasted this long and its motorola??? DetroitVectorSmooth posted:oh man those resistive touch screens and mini styluses
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EugeneJ posted:The Walkman MP3 players they've been selling for the last 5 years or so are really nice and cheap The NZ-W ones sold in 2010 were amazing, but the current versions are buggy and they actually got rid of the volume buttons, which is just insane. I bought a Fiio X1 instead and have been bummed that the EQ on it straight garbage and my music has no bass like the Sony player or my Sansas with Rockbox do. I'm not an audiophile, and those dudes get really upset if I mention I don't jerk to the X1 every night before sleeping and they blame me for buying their precious Alan_Shore posted:Ah yeah, SonicStage! I never used it, only saw screenshots and... yeah, that's some software alright. I'm actually bidding on a Hi-MD player from Japan now because I'm an insane person. I have my Hi-MD I bought in 2005. The batteries are dead but I can still use the AC adapter. I wanted to unload all of the stuff on my discs but Sonic Stage is completely dead because they used an installer that downloads from their server that they killed off a long time ago. I have no way to install it and have yet to find a way to get it all in one package. The ATRACs on my old hard drive are also only able to play on the computer I installed them in, which is long gone, thanks to their weird DRM system I didn't know existed. They really screwed the pooch making us use that software, and now all I have is about 15 discs worth of music I can't unload. The player still sounds amazing and I can't believe I wore it daily for years in a case that I attached to my belt. I dropped it so many times and it never skipped a beat. Haier has a new favorite as of 19:47 on Aug 4, 2016 |
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Makes me kind of sad, maybe three years ago I gave away a box. Inside that box was an MZR-900, the blue magnesium one, an MZN-10 and an MZN-1 along with about 20 discs. I really wish I hadn't done that.
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drunk asian neighbor posted:Never had that one, but I literally still use this phone when I go abroad for work: Kinda looks like it slides back into its own little form-fitting garbage bin.
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Cojawfee posted:Before my OG Droid, I had this, an LG VOyager. It seemed so drat cool when I got it. I had an LG Envy 2 as my last non-smart cellphone, and it had a layout very much like that. Best phone keyboard I ever had. I was really fond of that phone, and since then I have owned nothing but LG cellphones.
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Haier posted:The NZ-W ones sold in 2010 were amazing, but the current versions are buggy and they actually got rid of the volume buttons, which is just insane. I bought a Fiio X1 instead and have been bummed that the EQ on it straight garbage and my music has no bass like the Sony player or my Sansas with Rockbox do. I'm not an audiophile, and those dudes get really upset if I mention I don't jerk to the X1 every night before sleeping and they blame me for buying their precious Does this link not work? Older version, but doesn't have the web download requirement. I'm running it currently. https://archive.org/details/Sony-SonicStage-2.3
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SaNChEzZ posted:Makes me kind of sad, maybe three years ago I gave away a box. Inside that box was an MZR-900, the blue magnesium one, an MZN-10 and an MZN-1 along with about 20 discs. I really wish I hadn't done that. what ? why !? you played yourself
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Jyrraeth posted:help You know, for every one that you see, there's a thousand more living in the walls.
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Bovril Delight posted:Does this link not work? Older version, but doesn't have the web download requirement. I'm running it currently. I've never seen this before. Thank you. If it gets those long lost songs off my discs then I will be stoked. I dug it out of the box and took a poor quality low-light photo:  The MZ-RH910. I got it for $100 new (when it was going for like $250 elsewhere) with a free Hi-MD disc from a Japanese electronics store when I lived in Hawaii because they were realizing that MDs were not so popular in the US as they were in Japan. Radioshack was still selling boxes of regular discs 5 for $13, and or I could get a Hi-MD disc for like $16 or something. I went from a generic 512MB MP3 player to 30-something hours of music per Hi-MD disc and I used my MD from 2005 to 2010 when I bought a Walkman. My only gripe about it at all was it had no back light.
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Haier posted:I've never seen this before. Thank you. If it gets those long lost songs off my discs then I will be stoked. I want that WHAT MiniDisc. It's like a mystery box. drat I wish they were that cheap now. I'm still winning my Hi-MD bit at $100, hopefully I can download that awful SonicStage that Bovril kindly supplied and bask in its badly designed awesomeness. Here's my little guy, with my only genuine album: 
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I never had any of those crazy cell phones but i still have my BlackBerry with a rollerball.
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I found my* first cellphone the other day, the Kyocera Slider. Last I checked the screen was starting to fail, and the battery needed to be taped down cu I dropped it and popped a retainer clip. drat small piece of poo poo. Thing could probably fit in the little pocket of my jeans. *My mother owned a Nokia with the retractable antenna in like 98. That thing had Snake preloaded!
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Alan_Shore posted:I want that WHAT MiniDisc. It's like a mystery box.
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Casimir Radon posted:Meatloaf is terrible, and you should feel terrible too. He had the best song in the Rocky Horror Picture Show
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Casimir Radon posted:Meatloaf is terrible, and you should feel terrible too. WOAH. Woah. Let's not say things we can't take back later. There's only one Meat Loaf.
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Holy poo poo sidetalking is still up. I took the photo at the top of page 3. We were all so young and so very, very fat. Console chat: the cart on top of another cart on the nes totally worked. I didn't know about it destroying pins at the time but it makes a lot of sense given how that machine lived its last days. The ps1 we had started getting a wobble after a couple of years. I cracked it open and monkeyed around with the rubber bands and bearings around the central column and got it like, half fixed. Then we turned it mostly upside down cocked up on a book and it worked most of the time. The spring holding the catch for the mod chip was less reliable after that so we rigged up a little lever for it. When our ps2 started dying we tried turning it upside down like the ps1, but that was a no go. It was weird, only certain games had the issue. My brother and I figured out that putting masking tape on the tips of the discs would make them load way more reliably. It was like 8 strips in an asterisk with the middle uncovered. I always just assumed making the disc a little heavier was helping somehow.
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Jyrraeth posted:help Kiiiiiiill it! Destroy it!
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The PS2 reading head actually went out of alignment after a couple of years which probably caused most of the reading issues people had. The drive had to be recalibrated by hand, which meant just taking the thing almost completely apart and fiddling with a little screw inside the drive assembly until you hit the sweet spot where stuff would, you know, actually load. Mine worked fine for years after that, but yeah, quite a hassle.
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For cool phone poo poo it was tough to beat the Motorola e815. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_E815 Still my favorite phone out of all the ones I've owned over the years. This was a flip phone that, in 2005, could be hacked/modified to act as a dial-up modem. I remember using it to connect my lovely Compaq laptop to my dad's Mindspring ISP. Had tons of cool features and was way ahead of its time for what it was. My second favorite was the Sony Ericcson K850. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Ericsson_K850i Was an awesome music player with good SD card support. Honorable mention goes to the Nokia N90, which was a flawed but decent phone. Man, I miss the days of browsing PhoneArena and anticipating the next hot phone to drop. 
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I'm pretty sure a lot of phones supported working as modems. But speaking of Motorola V-phones, I've had a V50 for a bit: I got it a while after it came out so it was reasonably affordable, but I was still cool as a loving cucumber in school. It's still around somwhere and I should really dig it up and get a new battery for it for when I need a backup to use another sim card. But the coolest one that nobody's had? That had to be the V70: 
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mobby_6kl posted:Really wanted this one back in the day: Very glad to see someone post any of the HTC Windows Mobile phones. I had the Mogul which was a loving awesome phone until it died (my debit card guillotined the ribbon cable that attached the screen to the keyboard). A feature that many of these had that I'm incredibly surprised hasn't made a comeback is the side scroll; made 1 handed operation of the phone really easy although I've never met another person who liked it.
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Casimir Radon posted:Meatloaf is terrible, and you should feel terrible too. i don't think you "get" meat loaf Naxuz posted:The PS2 reading head actually went out of alignment after a couple of years which probably caused most of the reading issues people had. The drive had to be recalibrated by hand, which meant just taking the thing almost completely apart and fiddling with a little screw inside the drive assembly until you hit the sweet spot where stuff would, you know, actually load. Mine worked fine for years after that, but yeah, quite a hassle. was it actually a head alignment problem? poo poo cause i've never actually fixed any by purposefully adjusting the head. maybe mine will stop working if i ever use it again lmao E: ohhhh poo poo wasn't there a thing where if you played it in vertical orientation with the little stand it would go out of alignment? for some reason im remembering that nigga crab pollock has a new favorite as of 17:56 on Aug 5, 2016 |
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Powered Descent posted:You know, for every one that you see, there's a thousand more living in the walls. Hahahah It's the best part of starting a new I.T. job: seeking out and recycling the inevitable stashes of worthless poo poo. I've posted photos from a few years ago when I worked for a goddamn idiot poo poo gently caress that saved literal piles of tech related junk. We're talking hundreds of pounds of it. EDIT: This was only the first ewaste collection I organized. I humped all that crap up from the storage room in the parking structure. There was so much more after it.  
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Dick Trauma posted:Hahahah I was an engineer up until 2000, and even back then every factory I ever worked at had pallets and pallets of old computer junk, wrapped up and hidden in the back of the warehouse.
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mobby_6kl posted:I'm pretty sure a lot of phones supported working as modems. I can confirm this, I used to use my old flip phone as a modem for my laptop when I lived in Alabama and EarthLink was acting up. Nowadays, service providers apparently loving hate it when you do this. I use Straight Talk now and they'll cut your service for it.
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thuly posted:Holy poo poo sidetalking is still up. I took the photo at the top of page 3. We were all so young and so very, very fat.
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Skoll posted:I can confirm this, I used to use my old flip phone as a modem for my laptop when I lived in Alabama and EarthLink was acting up. I take it you mean using your phone as a hotspot? I thought the fcc demanded that be allowed unless you are on unlimited data?
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:I take it you mean using your phone as a hotspot? I thought the fcc demanded that be allowed unless you are on unlimited data? Tethering is what it's called.
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mobby_6kl posted:But the coolest one that nobody's had? That had to be the V70: I remember messing with one of these in the store. I almost got one but it was too expensive. I think T-mobile was still VoiceStream at that time. Can't remember if DT had bought them yet.
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Gay Weed Dad posted:Very glad to see someone post any of the HTC Windows Mobile phones. I had the Mogul which was a loving awesome phone until it died (my debit card guillotined the ribbon cable that attached the screen to the keyboard). A feature that many of these had that I'm incredibly surprised hasn't made a comeback is the side scroll; made 1 handed operation of the phone really easy although I've never met another person who liked it. Do you mean a jog wheel on the side that you used with your thumb? Rolled up and down, tilted back and forward and pushed in? I loving loved that on the Sony Ericsson P910i and wish for a new phone that has it.  Dick Trauma posted:Hahahah Nothing in that pile is waste. There will always be some nerd who yearned for X monitor and Y doodad. Even the fax machines there in front Shots fired? Humphreys has a new favorite as of 03:42 on Aug 6, 2016 |
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drunk asian neighbor posted:Internet-capable phones before smartphones were really A Thing were the greatest If you had one of these in high school (circa 2003), that meant you really were The poo poo™. I remember how crappy mobile phone internet access was prior to the iPhone. Attempting to use my old v710's WAP browser was always an exercise in FAIL -- it was always too slow to do anything with it.
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I had my Treo 650 until 2012. I loved that that keyboard.
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Dick Trauma posted:Hahahah I should have snapped some pictures of the basement at the business phone joint I worked at before I left/got laid off. An entire basement nearly filled with 30-plus-year-old phone systems in various states of disassembly/functionality. Shelves and shelves of Lucent/Avaya system components and cabinets, many boxes packed with gross, decommissioned Lucent/Avaya phones, loads of ancient Toshiba gear that NO ONE was ever going to use again. I'm convinced that the building is being physically supported by most of that junk. There's a pack-rat mentality that seems to be common among people in tech industries. That feeling that somehow, this thing might someday be useful/valuable. I know this because I suffered from it really bad 10-15 years ago. I still do, but nowhere near the insanity of my early hoarding years. A few examples include: Back around 1995, I happily accepted a Lisa 2/10 system from someone. It was totally FREE! I was working as a technician for one of the few remaining Apple Certified Repair Centers, and I was convinced it'd be great to have around, and that at worst I could totally turn it around make a nice bundle of cash off of it. Some things I learned about the Lisa 2: It's as heavy as a dump truck, draws WAY too much power and generates WAY too much heat, and even modded is limited to software that would run on System 6.0.4 (maybe 6.0.8, but my memory is foggy). It's also super slow. I never did sell it, and nearly blew my back out lugging it to the dumpster. Later, around 2000, one of our customers was upgrading equipment and had a load of various desktops he was going to throw away. We're talking PCs from 386's on up to early Pentium 166's. I snagged like 4 or 5 of these bad boys, thinking I could network them together and use them for awesomeness. One went to work as a FreeSCO router (remember those?), and that was really all it did--until I realized a real router was cheaper to run, easier to administer, took up less space, and didn't look like I'd gotten it out of a dumpster. The others went unused until I moved, at which point they made great doorstops. Straight into the dumpster after they'd served their purpose. I had a fully functional G3 Desktop (the original version that looked like a 7200, not the cool blue one) that came free from someone upgrading to a new G4 or something. I had all PCs at home, so I thought it'd be cool to have a Mac in my collection to do Mac stuff with. Turned out that particular G3 was terrible at, well, everything. OS X worked on it, but only barely, and soooooooo slowly. Once it was booted up, programs had to thrash for room to work, and most of the time didn't work at all because the only version of OS X that would successfully load on it was hilariously out of date. It eventually went to dumpster heaven too. There are so many more examples of my computer pack-ratting, but those are the ones that spring to mind. In '07, I moved out to Arizona, and in the process gave the ol' heave-ho to just about every computer THING I didn't actually need. Not only was it necessary-- I was almost literally going out there with the clothes on my back-- it felt so good to jettison all that baggage that it made me occasionally evaluate the junk I have lying around and get rid of it on a semi-regular basis. I say "semi-regularly" because my pack-rat tendencies run deep (I'm sure my dad has it too--maybe it's genetic?), and I have to consciously fight against it every time I begin to think about saving some bit of technology I've replaced or stopped using. Writing this now makes me realize I'm overdue for a purge, actually. Maybe when the summer heat backs off a bit, I'll start chucking some of the "interesting-yet-useless" computer stuff that mysteriously accumulates around me.
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Humphreys posted:Do you mean a jog wheel on the side that you used with your thumb? Rolled up and down, tilted back and forward and pushed in? That is exactly what I'm talking about! I think Blackberry were the ones to popularize it initially but it was a pretty common feature that everyone seemed to ditch for whatever reason.
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Tubesock Holocaust posted:I remember how crappy mobile phone internet access was prior to the iPhone. Attempting to use my old v710's WAP browser was always an exercise in FAIL -- it was always too slow to do anything with it. I figured out that Australian Vodafone GSM Pre-Paid SIMs for a period of time would still give you as much data as you wanted when there was zero credit on them. The SIMs were also part of a promotion with a major newspaper company as a bundle in. That was a good 6 months or so of free wireless data on all and any device I could put a SIM into and sync to lovely computers (was better than my dialup at the time). It was like the precursor to figuring out that Kindle Keyboard 3Gs could be rooted and used as a USB tethered modem. It was initially unmetered but some bastards abused it and wrote an article detailing it and the fun was over. To this day I still get free data on it - but its limited to 200MB a month - more than fine for downloading a book or browsing forums when bored and my phone has run out of battery. Gay Weed Dad posted:That is exactly what I'm talking about! I think Blackberry were the ones to popularize it initially but it was a pretty common feature that everyone seemed to ditch for whatever reason. 
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Somewhere I have a darth vader all black apple IIe. They were a weird custom job involving bell&howell with an extra videocard thing on the back that were sold to educational channels. I saved it from a room of them headed to the dump at a school my dad worked at. Shluld have took them all they fetch decent cash on ebay. Also remember tossing roomfuls of 286 and 386 machines. You goons that work with hoarders might be in for a treat, the old 286 and 386 processors had a bunch of gold on them and were fetching over $100 a pound last I checked. If your work wants rid of it and is going to pay a recycler figure out what it's worth and offer to take it for free and scrap it. http://www.cashforcomputerscrap.com/current-pricing my turn in the barrel has a new favorite as of 07:05 on Aug 6, 2016 |
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Humphreys posted:I figured out that Australian Vodafone GSM Pre-Paid SIMs for a period of time would still give you as much data as you wanted when there was zero credit on them. The SIMs were also part of a promotion with a major newspaper company as a bundle in. That was a good 6 months or so of free wireless data on all and any device I could put a SIM into and sync to lovely computers (was better than my dialup at the time). I wrote the proxy code which made that 3G Kindle hack thing work  Edit: I also used that voda trick, do you know me? yoloer420 has a new favorite as of 13:32 on Aug 6, 2016 |
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