Zombie Rasputin posted:How's support for the magic trackpad on non-osx OSes? I'd say give that a try. I had this e90 imported for about $1,000 back when I actually had money  Looks like this when folded up  The hardware was fantastic. Battery life and call quality were better than my current iphone 4. The OS (Symbian) was awful though. Couldn't even keep a steady wifi connection and the GPS didn't work at all. It was huge but I have enormous hands so it worked for me. Hated the "make phones as small as possible" trend that was going on when that came out. PS Also a member of the "thinkpad is awesome" club. My new model lenovo is the best laptop I've ever used.
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leidend posted:Oh you kids with your "old" Creative Zens... I wish I had one of those. I still use a cassette adapter and it still works pretty drat well. My e36 only has a tape deck and I really hate aftermarket stereos.
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leidend posted:Listened to it in the car with the old cassette adapter. These would break every few months I've three of these with me every time I drive: 
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torjus posted:Here is an image depicting a Creative Zen Touch with french language settings playing some Joe Cocker: Ah ... that's the exact same model of Zen that I dropped once and killed. It was a pretty good MP3 player, though.
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RoboSpy posted:Unfortunately (fortunately?) I never experienced Microsoft BOB, but I was wondering if anyone here did? All I know about it I learned from Wikipedia, though I do have vague memories of ads for it when I was a kid, and may have seen a demo computer with it at a CompUSA or something. Does anybody have stories about BOB, or a computer squirreled away somewhere with BOB still installed? I used to play around with this all the time as a kid. I don't think I realized it wasn't really meant to be a game -- I just liked decorating the rooms and picking the little character that would talk to you. Invisble Manuel posted:I always wanted one of these: They did record audio, and you could also hook them up to your TV, meaning you could use it as a monitor and also record it to VHS. I bought one of these in the early 2000s and got it modded to have RCA output, so I can (awkwardly) hook it up to a miniDV camera and make weird movies with it. The video is really interesting and eerie, but you need a ton of light to make it look like anything but a grey smear. I also had this loving thing in like 2002 and thought I was pretty bomb:  It had good battery power and held a lot of songs for that era, but drat if it doesn't look ridiculous now. Also, on the subject of laserdiscs, the college I went to had apparently invested heavily in them when they were new, and every single film we watched (as a Film Studies major, this was a lot) was played on laserdisc, which none of the aging professors understood how to use. This was in 2003-2005 and it was kind of surreal having to flip the disc over halfway through the movie and sometimes even switch to a second disc, considering that DVDs had been out for a while. squeegee has a new favorite as of 03:03 on Jul 22, 2012 |
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I bought the 30Gb version in 2005. It's been sitting on a shelf unused for over a year. I dug out the adapter and plugged it in and it's as good as ever. However, the battery is kaput, so I ordered a new one.
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Pope Mobile posted:I just thought of another one: The Zune. I knew I shouldn't have gotten one after my dad did (given his tracked record) but I loved mine. It was a great music player, and I really liked the market. I was sad when it got water damaged I loved my Creative Zen but I'm going to be really sad when all my Zunes die. They are the best MP3 players I've ever used and I've yet to feel like it's the same experience playing music on a phone.
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 This is my Creative Zen. I got it in 2007 and I still use it. I've dropped/thrown it more times than I can count and it just keeps on going. Rock on, Zen, you hardy little bastard.
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Glottis posted:I loved my Creative Zen but I'm going to be really sad when all my Zunes die. They are the best MP3 players I've ever used and I've yet to feel like it's the same experience playing music on a phone. I really really liked the Zune hardware; that frosted polymer shell was sweet. The UI, eh.
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Glottis posted:I loved my Creative Zen but I'm going to be really sad when all my Zunes die. They are the best MP3 players I've ever used and I've yet to feel like it's the same experience playing music on a phone. If it's because of the IU and you have an Android there's a music player modeled after it called UberMusic that you should try: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.uberdroidstudio.ubermusic&hl=en
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Mister Snips posted:Carphones, yo Whoa whoa whoa, I know this is more than a few pages too late, but do you mean Lake Forest, IL? That's where I'm from!
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Glottis posted:I loved my Creative Zen but I'm going to be really sad when all my Zunes die. They are the best MP3 players I've ever used and I've yet to feel like it's the same experience playing music on a phone. Seriously. I use my HD daily, and my husband has one of the old bricks that he uses daily as well.
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Magikarpal Tunnel posted:
You bastard, I had one and I broke the screen in less than a week.
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 A Mavica that recorded directly to CD. I probably don't need to tell you that it was the biggest piece of poo poo in the universe. My buddy had one and every time you snapped a picture you had to keep the bastard perfectly still for a few seconds or else it wouldn't write properly. I think this was produced somewhere in 2000-2002.  This on the other hand was the toughest and most reliable cellphone ever. The Motorola Talkabout. edit: it cost the same as cellphones now. provided you sign a 2 year contract. 100 minutes and free voicemail for $49.99
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They'd be similar to these bad boys The old school Phillips mobiles from 99 were indestructible. I'd dropped mine, other people had thrown them against walls, dropped them in toilets, had them dropped in full pints. Put them back together or dry them out, no problem. The G-Shock rubber cased Nokias from that time were the same too edit: An entire two lines at a time on the screen for SMS/text messages too, and you could store upto 10 numbers I think
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Lamb of Gun posted:
I remember a local auction site having hundreds of those in crates a couple of years back - they were selling at about $100 each. Come to think of it, they probably still do...
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MindlessHavok posted:If it's because of the IU and you have an Android there's a music player modeled after it called UberMusic that you should try: Yeah, that's as close as I can get, but part of it is that I just like having a separate device. I can run the battery down on my Zune and not care, I can use all the storage space, etc.
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Goldskull posted:They'd be similar to these bad boys This was my first phone, it was freaking awesome.
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CommunistMojo posted:Casio makes a kind of competing calculator but I think it's more of TI's having been around for so long that they're the standard. Hell I've never seen a book that gave instructions that weren't for a TI. A few people in my stats class were using casio's for a couple weeks until they just gave up and got TI's because no one knew how to do the functions we needed to do on casio's. I'd love to use my smart phone but I'm at a lovely community college and anyone under the age of 50 with a cellphone out is assumed to be texting. Also the casio's are just as expensive so chalk another one up to american business practices being stupid. Hello oppositeland! Back in my days at school here in Norway, everyone used Casios for the exact same reason, the text books all had the stuff for Casios and only a couple of students used TIs. Me and a friend made Snake and Tetris clones on ours, to have something to do in the boring math classes. I'm also one of the people who rock the Creative NOMAD Jukebox 6 GB (the early discman shaped ones), rad as gently caress at the time, lasted me through a day at school, and then had to be charged for hours before I could use it the next day. After 3 years with that, I upgraded to the Creative NOMAD Jukebox Xtra 40GB (also mentioned earlier in this thread), and it still works to this day. It's on top of one of my old speakers, and has been hooked to its charger for 7 years now. I stopped using it because some troubles with the audio jack. Also owned some of the smaller Creative Zens, before I got a Zune a couple of years ago. Still love it and use it every day, even with a SGSII with 64 GB memory card filled with music. Mostly because it has a better battery capacity and more awesome games. :P I have to say, this thread has been a nice flashback for me. Remembering so many of the different things, which either we (as in me and my family) or our neighbours and friends owned. e: Now that I think about it, I also rocked a Casiopeia with Windows CE 1.0 or something. Found it the other day, turned it on and the bastard still worked. Heck, even the stylus was with it. No idea where the charger is though. Also, does anyone remember those pagers that came out about 10-12 years ago that was for hip kids and youths? I can't remember what they were called, but only a couple of kids in my town had them, and for half a year, they were some of the most popular kids because of those frustrating gizmos. "You got a cellphone? Well, look at this bitching thing!" I also remember us having a car phone back in the 90s, and then again a carphone in an Audi my father bought 9 years ago. It wasn't with the standard kit, but he said it reminded him of the old days and payed extra for it. drat bastard worked too, but then again ... Norway. e: Those pagers that was released for kids / youths, seem to have been in the 90s, and mostly for Scandinavia. They were released by Ericsson and called Mini-Link. Datasmurf has a new favorite as of 14:32 on Jul 26, 2012 |
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Speaking of indestructible phones, how about a early Nokia phone designed to be hard wearing? I had one of these Designed as a handyman / sports model, it had a steel case, rubber shock protection and waterproof covering. It had an accelerometer as one of the first models, paired with a sports app to record distances and calorie stuff. I liked it okay, wasn't flashy, but looked okay and could take any beating. Now it's in a drawer somewhere, where it will outlast even our nuclear waste.
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Magikarpal Tunnel posted:
I still have mine rocking around somewhere, but after not using it for a while because it deleted songs at random, I put it on charge for a trip, and when I tried to turn it on, it wouldn't. Turned out to be something related to it's firmware.
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Maimgara posted:Speaking of indestructible phones My indestructible phone memories are of Qualcomm candybars that are so old I can't seem to find pictures of them on the web. You know, Qualcomm. The fine folks who brought you Eudora, because Pegasus was for newbies.  Something like that. The StarTac was prohibitively expensive, okay? VogeGandire posted:
The Thinkpad is unattractive? You're dead to me. vvv JediTalentAgent posted:I know they're generally mocked these days, but RealAudio used to be pretty popular back in the 90s. I know that in the pre-podcast, pre-youtube and pre-broadband days of internet video and radio it was a choppy and blocky, but it was still about as good as it got when it came to getting such content on slow connections. http://i.imgur.com/uv8pu.jpg moller has a new favorite as of 07:40 on Jul 27, 2012 |
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VogeGandire posted:
Hell yeah! I got one of those in middle school... about 2003-4 and a bunch of other kids did too. They all ran on Windows 98 and were free, donated to the school for kids who had lovely handwriting. It actually did let me do my work faster but then I'd spend the rest of class playing Unreal Tournament and Red Alert 2  The battery was entirely non functional and if the incredibly loose power supply cable came out, it would die in 5 seconds. When I dug it out of my closet, I was reminded of those Russian tanks they'd dig out of swamps that pretty much still run from WWII. The thing was covered in dust and when I turned it on it gave me a bunch of RAM errors, and it turns out the motherboard or backup battery had died. Edit: Forgot to say, when I get past all the errors it runs just fine, and plays Unreal Tournament great still. BillyJoeBob has a new favorite as of 07:34 on Jul 27, 2012 |
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Ignimbrite posted:I still have mine rocking around somewhere, but after not using it for a while because it deleted songs at random, I put it on charge for a trip, and when I tried to turn it on, it wouldn't. Turned out to be something related to it's firmware. I had the same happening to mine, eventually the firmware went on the fritz and by then I had an iPhone so i started using that as my main music player.
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I know they're generally mocked these days, but RealAudio used to be pretty popular back in the 90s. I know that in the pre-podcast, pre-youtube and pre-broadband days of internet video and radio it was a choppy and blocky, but it was still about as good as it got when it came to getting such content on slow connections. Even when it was popular, it was even criticized due to the footage not being of the same quality as Quicktime-grade video. Then once MS got into the game, Napster and file-sharing MP3s became the norm, it seemed like the reign of Real started coming to an end. The only real streaming competition that I ever saw at that time was a format called "Vivoactive" which I thought was better than Realvideo with comparable file sizes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VivoActive According to a wiki on Vivo, it says it was popular because of its use on porn sites in the 90s, but from my recollection I only ever knew it from some early music video and movie trailer sites.
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JediTalentAgent posted:I know they're generally mocked these days, but RealAudio used to be pretty popular back in the 90s. I remember it taking something like an hour to download the 14mb trailer. The internet plan we were on had unlimited data, but was time limited - something like 18 hours. So my sick day resulted in stumbling across the sheet of paper with the password for the internet account and download the Phantom Menace trailer, twice, because I thought it had corrupted when I only got white video. I got the modem confiscated for the rest of the month as result.
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JediTalentAgent posted:The only real streaming competition that I ever saw at that time was a format called "Vivoactive" which I thought was better than Realvideo with comparable file sizes. Vivo files were the format for pirating video in the mid 90s, as the files were smaller than mpegs and could be downloaded on a dialup. The only free player didn't support skipping around when playing a video, so if you wanted to watch something you had to start over if you had to stop it for some reason. Picture quality was horrible, and everything looked rasterized for some reason. However, if you were on dialup and wanted to see a terrible Ranma fansub in 1997 you had little other choice.
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All y'all suckaz had the Nokia 3310, but I was the coolest kid with THIS the Nokia 3410. This baby had animated 3D screen savers, a dedicated Hang up button and could store a British Library rivalling ten whole SMS messages. This thing was so much more beautiful (horrendously ugly) than the 3310 and Snake ran slower, allowing me to get a higher score than everyone else in school. I'm pretty sure it was even more indestructible than the 3310; at least it wouldn't come apart as often when you dropped it. And that was all the time because why not? Unfortunately I moved house without taking this dude, but I'm sure it's still on somewhere at 98% charge. Aipsh has a new favorite as of 14:42 on Jul 27, 2012 |
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My cell phone from 1998 to early 2000 Motorolla StarTec. I think the only reason I liked it was because I felt like I was on Stark Trek or something.
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Aidan_702 posted:Unfortunately I moved house without taking this dude, but I'm sure it's still on somewhere at 98% charge. Remember when phones had standby times that were literally measured in weeks? Whereas the latest smartphone can maybe get 2 days of light use out of it.
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spog posted:Remember when phones had standby times that were literally measured in weeks? Yeah but i also remember a time when cellphones had a monochrome screen, a battery that got hosed up if you charged it wrong, monophonic ringtones and only enough memory to hold 25 phone numbers and 10 texts. I prefer plugging in my smartphone every two days...
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Well maybe this 15 year battery phone will be good for the both of you http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/12/spareone-cellphone-claims-15-year-battery-life-we-go-hands-on/
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JediTalentAgent posted:About 5-8 years ago there was a minor bump in the US for store-bought HDD DVRs that weren't part of any subscription plan like Tivo or part of your cable/sat. plans. I still have one of these, worked and worked really well until about spring of last year. Comcast had already forced the tuner boxes on everyone but that was apparently when they decided to shut the regular signal off. Now its completely worthless and they want 7 extra bucks a month for a box that can record a finite amount of things but cant back them up. Lame. I guess I could still offer to convert peoples home videos to dvd with it if I wanted to get some more value out of it. Edit: No, basically everything requires you to get a tuning card from your provider. I suppose you may be able to get over the air channels somehow, but that's it. Ninja Toast! has a new favorite as of 20:09 on Jul 27, 2012 |
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Aidan_702 posted:Well maybe this 15 year battery phone will be good for the both of you I thought about getting a couple of those. Just throw one in the car and one behind the fridge or something. Just in case my wives in labor and a quantum filament disables all other communication systems or something like that.
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Shai-Hulud posted:Yeah but i also remember a time when cellphones had a monochrome screen, a battery that got hosed up if you charged it wrong, monophonic ringtones and only enough memory to hold 25 phone numbers and 10 texts. I prefer plugging in my smartphone every two days... I hear what you are saying and it is definitely an unfair comparison: but still, I hate the fact that if you ever forget to charge it up one night, you'll spend the entire of the next day with battery anxiety. Shai-Hulud posted:I thought about getting a couple of those. Just throw one in the car and one behind the fridge or something. Just in case my wives in labor and a quantum filament disables all other communication systems or something like that. I bought a horrible phone on clearance for 3 for exactly this. It takes a Nokia charger, so it's easy to keep a cheap car charger with it in the boot of the car. The hardest part is remembering to make a call every 30 days to make sure it doesn't lose the credit on it.
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I was lucky enough to attend a magnet middle-school in the late 90's that had this amazing Space Shuttle simulator. Unfortunately I was in the last class that used it before it was dismantled and destroyed during a renovation and this image from a dude's blog is all I can find. http://www.fifer.net/blog/2011/07/04/my-space-story/ posted:The highlight of the school was a Space Shuttle simulator, complete with mockups of the brand-new Endeavours flight deck and crew quarters; the space station Skylab, and an airlock connecting the two. There was also a complete Mission Control center, with authentic stations and displays, and a planetarium. Space themes were integrated throughout the daily curriculum, but students could also participate in overnight mission simulations. So yeah, a Laser Disc powered Space Shuttle and Skylab simulator probably fits this thread. The complete setup housed about 40 kids overnight, each taking a position at Mission Control, Skylab, or the Shuttle based on their midterm and final aeronautics test scores (I was Captain both times regardless of me barely passing any of my other courses. C'mon, it's the class with a loving Space Shuttle, of course I'm gonna reach for those stars.) There were around a dozen Laser Disc players running during the 'missions,' each with a monitor in place of windows, so the Shuttle crew would see the front facing video from a real STS mission in the cockpit, the Skylab crew would have a looping orbit of earth through their portholes, Mission Control had several views of the launch and other monitors showing flight data. Everyone had a checklist assigned to them as well as a script with important events highlighted. The teacher was able to monitor from a room nearby, and if we didn't complete the tasks properly, say failing to flip a switch in the correct order or missing a com check, he could in theory trigger "hypothetical scenarios" from the Laser Discs by changing the video track to something disastrous, and though he never did this due to fears of disturbing the students after the fallout he received from parents over having us piece together why and how the Challenger disaster happened by watching the footage over and over, there was a very distinct pressure, especially for a seventh-grader, not to screw up. Another one is this strange entry into the FMV-style choose your own story "game."  http://youtu.be/NCLTm0fGzDc Please note, this game is optimized for Intel MMX systems, so make sure you check yo specs.
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Aidan_702 posted:All y'all suckaz had the Nokia 3310, but I was the coolest kid with THIS the Nokia 3410. Everyone was jealous of my 3310 and my sister's 3330, and I had the school record on Snake II on it. Had it for 4 years, before I got another Nokia, and only because I had the need of storing more SMS and numbers on it. My first phone was this old beauty though.  The Bosch 509 GSM. Stopped seeing Bosch mobile phones after the 2000s, so I guess it failed. Too bad, it was a nice little phone. Not quite a Nokia or an Ericsson (only the weird, poor kids had Motorola, and they got teased for it too), but not too shabby either.
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Bonzo posted:My cell phone from 1998 to early 2000 This was my phone in 2004 because I accidentally put my lovely LG mobile in the washing machine. I tried intentionally breaking it but the bastard refused to quit. 
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Creature posted:This was my phone in 2004 because I accidentally put my lovely LG mobile in the washing machine. I tried intentionally breaking it but the bastard refused to quit. My Startac actually went through the washer and dryer and still worked. Couldn't even tell anything happened.
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This is my first mobile phone which I got in 2000, the a1018, made by Ericsson before they became Sony Ericsson and before they dropped the Ericsson name all together. I got it as part of a prepaid package, which cost me a cool AUD$200 at the time. Fun fact: when I got this early 2000, text messaging was unavailable for pre-paid plan customers on the network I was on. They only got around to making it available for everyone later that year.
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