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Gonz posted:I had a Iomega Zip Drive at some point. It was terrible. I remember buying a few used Dell PCs (Pentium III and AMD K6-III era) that came with Zip drives. Not a single one worked. My high school's graphic design lab also had some PCs equipped with Zip drives. Those didn't work either. Zip and Jaz drives were always fragile, non-functional pieces of poo poo. I remember buying my first USB flash drive (a 128MB Lexar Jumpdrive) and thinking, "this poo poo makes Zip drives look like a loving joke."
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To anybody wanting to resurrect a 2004-era PC: MicroCenter sells $2 40GB SATA drives.
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Oct 5, 2016 04:46
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We had a Zip drive growing up that never gave us any problems other than the ones you get when you have three separate parallel port devices. My grandma still has one though I'm not sure if it works or not.
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Oct 5, 2016 04:48
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My first USB drive was 8 MB. That was in...1998? I think? Last Christmas, my brother got me a 128 gigabyte USB drive as a stocking stuffer. TECHNOLOGY.
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Oct 5, 2016 05:16
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My first one was a 32MB drive around 1999. I held on to that thing for ages.
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Oct 5, 2016 05:25
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Anyone ever have one of these bad boys? Nomad Muvo TX FM. Best micro mp3 player I ever had. 1 gig of music, it ran on a triple-A battery, and you could pop out the mp3 player portion and use it as a thumb drive. My companion all the way from Freshman year of high school to my junior year of college. I'd buy a new one but they're getting pricey on Ebay now, like, the 1 gig models cost more than list when they were new. e: edited out the racist commentary Grand Prize Winner has a new favorite as of 05:56 on Oct 5, 2016 |
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Oct 5, 2016 05:50
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Gonz posted:I had a Iomega Zip Drive at some point. It was terrible. i don't know which technology came out first for PCs but before CD-R/W was ubiquitous Iomega Zip wasn't that bad in an ignorance-is-bliss type of situation given that the next best thing was 3.5" floppy. and this was all well before USB flash drives of course. i still have an old piece of music recording equipment i use to dick around with that takes zip disks as its storage medium. i got like a hundred of them at a pawn shop for $5. 
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Oct 5, 2016 06:16
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Grand Prize Winner posted:Anyone ever have one of these bad boys?
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thathonkey posted:i don't know which technology came out first for PCs but before CD-R/W was ubiquitous Iomega Zip wasn't that bad in an ignorance-is-bliss type of situation given that the next best thing was 3.5" floppy. and this was all well before USB flash drives of course. That's a fancy nuclear football ya got there, thathonkey.
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Oct 5, 2016 06:31
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Grand Prize Winner posted:Anyone ever have one of these bad boys? I owned the original 128MB:  No screen, no radio, no alpha-numeric playback. So how the gently caress did it determine play back order? TRACK COPY ORDER! Eveyone used Windows Explorer to copy a set of files, but it would perform the copy in random order. So playback order felt random until I did the research. Then I wrote a tool called MuvoMaster to parse m3u files and convert them to a batch file full of ordered copy commands. I was amazed that the first forum post I made about it still exists: http://www.genmay.com/showthread.php?t=63628 I still use the tool (yes, works in Windows 10) for making mp3 CDs for my car, because gently caress naming my mp3s with track numbers. I just let the tool do that  
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Oct 5, 2016 06:31
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Grand Prize Winner posted:Anyone ever have one of these bad boys? "Pop out"? Why don't you just take off the fob cover like a true pro:  I still have mine, a little monster runs back and forth in the LCD display while it is charging.
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Oct 5, 2016 06:40
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Gonz posted:My first USB drive was 8 MB. That was in...1998? I think? I remember being on the phone with the customer service person and basically being told we're not going to ship a drive to you, have this 16MB jump drive instead. I felt cheated for like a year, since WinXP was a pile of rear end for USB drives and I had to connect to the internet to download the driver for the thing to work.
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Oct 5, 2016 06:49
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thathonkey posted:i don't know which technology came out first for PCs but before CD-R/W was ubiquitous Iomega Zip wasn't that bad in an ignorance-is-bliss type of situation given that the next best thing was 3.5" floppy. and this was all well before USB flash drives of course. Hah, I had the Boss BR8, which also used Zip disks. It was a great introduction into home recording, but man, once DAWs took off I left those all-in-one recorders in the dust.
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Oct 5, 2016 07:07
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monster on a stick posted:"Pop out"? Why don't you just take off the fob cover like a true pro: I got one of those for like 40 bucks after my Nomad broke in 2012 or so. drat thing never worked right, my car's stereo wouldn't recognize it as a thumb drive, and you had to use some bullshit program to get it to recognize files instead of dragging and dropping in Explorer like a civilized human being. I reverted to just burning mp3cd collections until I got my first smartphone in 2014.
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Grand Prize Winner posted:Anyone ever have one of these bad boys? gently caress yes! I had the blue one, with blue display. 256 MB I think, I bought it to have music on the plane for when I went to visit a girl I met in World of Warcraft in 2005. I later put my workout music on it. Eye of the Tiger must have been played hundreds of times in 2006-2007. I then upgraded to this:  I could now carry music videos and porn with me wherever I went! Then I had a loooooong planeride to Florida, and I decided to import this thing to entertain me, because gently caress Apple. I brought it to work today for fun, and the battery died during the 30 minute bus ride: 
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Oct 5, 2016 10:14
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RIP brown zune, you were too good for me.
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Oct 5, 2016 10:36
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv6s_AnX9RU The little touch of it having the plastic case of a 5.25 and having no disk inside was great. Humphreys has a new favorite as of 12:04 on Oct 5, 2016 |
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Oct 5, 2016 11:44
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I used a Zip drive (parallel port) all the time and never had the click of death. I got my first one in '96 or '97 and continued to use them up until 2011. I had an old file server that had an internal zip drive and I just used that to backup documents. That server eventually died and so I just use dropbox and google drive now. From '97 to '99 I did IT stuff for a place that made keychains and similar promotional items. Our art department used Zip disks all the time because it was the only medium available that let you ship large Illustrator, Quark, of Photoshop files. We did have an FTP server setup but this was in the dial up days and no one had time to wait for the upload/download times. In addition to the Jaz drive (1GB), Iomega also had the Ditto drive which allowed you to backup at much as 2GB to tape.
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Oct 5, 2016 13:57
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Haha I love that it's measuring storage in terms of characters.
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Oct 5, 2016 14:56
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Gobblecoque posted:Haha I love that it's measuring storage in terms of characters. You could only save ASCII porn on it, but a lot.
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Oct 5, 2016 14:58
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Gobblecoque posted:Haha I love that it's measuring storage in terms of characters. The best ads/instruction manuals are the ones that would follow it up with a parenthetical about "that's ______ pages of text" E: ", or _______ copies of the Encyclopedia Britannica"
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Oct 5, 2016 15:45
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Gobblecoque posted:Haha I love that it's measuring storage in terms of characters. There's a good reason for that. Before the 1980s (when 8-bit computers became immensely powerful and cheap), nobody had standardized on the size of a Byte. The size of a character varied from system to system, and computer makers tried word sizes all over the place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#History So you gave the storage size in "characters" on the target platform.
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Even that was a bit iffy on 36-bit platforms, as I've understood it. You could cram 6 6-bit characters into a word if space was at a premium, or 4 8-bit chars if you needed the expanded charset, or 5 7-bit chars if you were using 7bit ASCII like much of the world. I even think there was an expanded 9-bit charset around at some point.
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WebDog posted:Apple's stuff is pretty constrained in comparison. quote:Tuesday, 7 September 2005, 9:30 AM Pacific It's pretty long, the rest is here: http://daringfireball.net/2005/09/anthropomorphized
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mobby_6kl posted:Reminds me of this: What the gently caress is this?
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I remember I owned two of these MP3 players: The first one was 256 mb and the second 1 gb I guess. 2005 and 2006 respectively. Then I got a "MP4" player in 2007...  I remember I was amused by watching lovely quality video on such a small screen. All of them were Chinese crap, obviously. Two years later, smartphones came into my life and the rest is history.
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Oct 5, 2016 21:46
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The MP3/4 thing reminds me of a funny thing I noticed when I was in China: apparently higher numbers means better quality no matter the context, which is apparently why I saw tons of stores selling MP8 and MP9 players. I also saw at least one PS6 or 7.
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Last Chance posted:What the gently caress is this? Early signs of schizophrenia?
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Kelp Me! posted:The MP3/4 thing reminds me of a funny thing I noticed when I was in China: apparently higher numbers means better quality no matter the context, which is apparently why I saw tons of stores selling MP8 and MP9 players. I also saw at least one PS6 or 7. Betcha didn't actually see any MP4 players there though.
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Mak0rz posted:Betcha didn't actually see any MP4 players there though. Needs more advertising of .3PG support. I used to spend a LOT of time encoding movies and TV shows into a very specific set of specs so I could play them on my old Sony Ericsson P910i. My scrub friends had snake. I was smugger than iPhone users.
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monster on a stick posted:"Pop out"? Why don't you just take off the fob cover like a true pro: I recently "fixed" mine, since the little ribbon connector inside the thing had come undone and kept the display from showing properly. But the battery's on its last legs, the case itself is crumbling and dragging/dropping music files onto it is a slow, pain-in-the-rear end process. Speaking of which, anyone actually use this to play music? Because I did.  Sadly, I went through three of these back when I had Verizon. I dropped one in a puddle, another fell in a toilet and the third one simply bricked itself for no reason. Verizon wouldn't give my any more free replacements, so I went back to using my V710 until I switched carriers. 90s Solo Cup has a new favorite as of 18:48 on Oct 6, 2016 |
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Oct 6, 2016 18:43
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One of my cousins used to own a Creative Zen. How are those? I remember his looked pretty slick. Clearly many of them were designed to resemble iPods:  One of my ex-girlfriends used to have a SanDisk Sansa shaker. It wasn't the greatest thing but it had a fun gimmick where you could shake it and it shuffles the tracks. Thing was bulky and awkward as hell though (I'm pretty sure they're meant for children now that I think about it) and obviously useless if you plan to run with it. Also  at them going for over $100 on Amazon.
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A lot of "old" devices would look a lot better without the silver or, even worse, silver speckled bits.
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Mak0rz posted:One of my cousins used to own a Creative Zen. How are those? I remember his looked pretty slick. I actually found my Zen Microphoto a few months ago. Cojawfee posted:I dug this guy out the other day and spent some time charging it up.It wouldn't turn on so I thought the battery was dead and ordered a new one. I guess the screen is just really dim after all these years. It thinks it is 2007 and the last song I played on it was Paschendale.
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Oct 6, 2016 21:57
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The best totally-not-a-vibrator MP3 player was this: Sony S203F
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big crush on Chad OMG posted:The best totally-not-a-vibrator MP3 player was this: This fellow liked them so much he bought four! 
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Dick Trauma posted:This fellow liked them so much he bought four! He must have had chronic sore throat too because he's wearing a blister pack of cough drops on his shirt front
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Pham Nuwen posted:He must have had chronic sore throat too because he's wearing a blister pack of cough drops on his shirt front Um those are clearly start buttons from pinball machines
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Mak0rz posted:Um those are clearly start buttons from pinball machines Don't pick on Grandma Tarkin. LIke every great grandma, she has hard candies at the ready.
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