Post the very best in obsolete and failed technology

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The Something Awful Forums > Main > Post Your Favorite: Carefully Curated > Post the very best in obsolete and failed technology

psyopmonkey: Nov 15, 2008; by Lowtax

Zasraik posted:

The beeper.

I still have a beeper; Stupid feds being all antiquated and ludite'tastic.

I got one of these at a Yardsale about 8 years ago...

The Virgin Webplayer

It was a very simple, compact, flash based X86 computer. If you had an old school IDE notebook HDD and a 44pin mini-IDE cable you could put linux or windows on this thing. It was awesome for weather monitoring and other super low horsepower tasks.

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psyopmonkey: Nov 15, 2008; by Lowtax

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