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I'm feeling nostalgic, post some vintage tech you once owned

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While I didn't own one personally, I got to know them in every sense but biblically. I learned HPGL inside out, writing programs to push push just about anything that could be created on a PC out to one.

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zinfamous said:
yep. My ~4 year old Nexus5x completely shit the bed 2 weeks ago now. Totally inoperable (if I had to guess, expanded battery? oh well' can't replace. too bad).
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I had a 5x and that phone was a piece of junk. I was so excited about having it because it was my first Google device but it was one of the worst phones I've ever owned. Only 2GB of RAM and the camera app constantly crashed when switching apps. Can't believe Google had the gall to put out a device like that.
 
Captante said:

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Counted as "tech" when my Grandparents brought it for Christmas one year!

I can still clearly remember fights with my brother over who got to play with it .... coolest part was the section at the top of the hill that flipped the car over.

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Man! I had one as well. 1969. I remember getting my finger caught in the wheel gear. ripped some skin. I wish I still had it. I see a few on ebay but they are never complete or working.
 
pete6032 said:
I had a 5x and that phone was a piece of junk. I was so excited about having it because it was my first Google device but it was one of the worst phones I've ever owned. Only 2GB of RAM and the camera app constantly crashed when switching apps. Can't believe Google had the gall to put out a device like that.
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My 5x actually worked pretty well ... right up to the moment it boot-looped then died literally 3 days past the end of the warranty!

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To their credit Google support still honored said warranty and sent me a "new" 5x ... which I promptly sold on Swappa to offset the cost of the LG v30+ I was forced to replace it with.

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Captante said:
Mine 5x actually worked pretty well ... right up to the moment it boot-looped then died literally 3 days past the end of the warranty!

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To their credit Google support still honored said warranty and sent me a "new" 5x ... which I promptly sold on Swappa to offset the cost of the LG v30+ I was forced to replace it with.

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Same thing happened to me, I had the bootloop. I got it repaired and then sold it and got $200 in the class action lawsuit. Not bad.
 
BudAshes said:
I had the Creative Vision M from back in the 2000s. That thing was actually pretty awesome. I used the hell out of it until it broke. I felt pretty damn cool watching movies and tv shows while I was supposed to be working. In 2020 that is like half of America working from home.

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Still have one, it works, battery not so good 😛
I have a Creative Nomad MuVo too, it just takes a single AAA battery... battery door broke. I used it with electrical tape holding the battery in for a while 😀
 
Muse said:
My HP4 lasted me over 15 years. One day I was riding my bicycle and spotted what looked like my HP4 on the curb. I stopped and had a look. It was an HP4M, the postscript version of the HP4. I was on the way to visit my mom. On the way back I brought that HP4M. I got it working, cleaned it up and used it instead of my old HP4. I still have that HP4M, but don't use it. I got a mid-range Brother duplexer and is my current printer. Duplexing with those HP4's is a PITA. You either have to buy an expensive and bulky duplexing add-on or feed the pages through a 2nd time to achieve duplexing. I did that a lot. The Brother's so much nicer to use and it was WAY WAY cheaper. Those HP4's ran almost $2000 back in the early 1990's. One day I'll get rid of the HP4M, it's basically just a piece of furniture in my home theater/computer room. I figure to get a multi function printer... copy, print, scan, have that my main printer and relegate the Brother to upstairs work so I don't have to run down the stairs to get my prints.
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Wow, that's an expensive printer. I think I paid around $500 for my HP4L. What do you do that required that quality? Or just duplexing?
 
Fritzo said:
The Zune was SO underrated. Microsoft just got in the game way too late and had no idea how to market to the people buying these things. The Zune even became a joke about parents that buy their kids the wrong thing.
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That was the Joke in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol Two when Star-Lord's got gifted a Zune. I still use mine at the drive-inn theater. We sit in the back of the truck with the Zune connected to a wireless speaker.

Here's my Game Gear which was working until just recently. Now the screen does this.

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kt said:
Anyone remember the Samsung Uproar cell phone? It's the first cell phone with MP3 player capability. I used it as a mp3 player more than a cell phone and it was a conversation piece.
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Looks like it has a pixelated monochrome LCD screen but apparently it was internet capable?

The Uproar from Samsung was the first cell phone with MP3-playback functionality. A whopping 64 MB of memory was available for roughly an hour of music, and the device connected to the Internet for Web browsing. A handful of other features, including voice-enabled dialing and personal-information management, made the Uproar a fine tool for both work and life. Sprint retailed the Uproar for $400 in 2001.
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The Uproar from Samsung was the first cell phone with MP3-playback functionality
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pete6032 said:
2 celerons? At that point you might as well run one Pentium?
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Celerons of that era were fairly cheap, and performed pretty well when overclocked. Really, though, it was a hobby and learning experience for me more than actually needing a dual processor setup.
 
pete6032 said:
Looks like it has a pixelated monochrome LCD screen but apparently it was internet capable?




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All-TIME 100 Gadgets - TIME

The Uproar from Samsung was the first cell phone with MP3-playback functionality
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I had a Nokia 3650 (still have it actually!) that was the first "smartphone"...supposedly the first American phone with a camera too. Had a weird "birth control pill" keyboard that was always a pain to use.

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pete6032 said:
2 celerons? At that point you might as well run one Pentium?
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IIRC early celerons when overclocked actually beat the comparable PII in games due to their faster (but less plentiful cache). Overclocking was a lot more fun back then and saved a lot of money. Now its pay to play.
 
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