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Pliablemoose

Pliablemoose

Lifer
Oct 11, 1999
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Palm VIIx

God it was lame, slow, and expensive. Putting it next to a current smartphone (hell it wasn't even a phone), it's like putting Rosanne Barr next to Scarlet Johansen....
 
amdhunter

amdhunter

Lifer
May 19, 2003
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Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
Palm VIIx

God it was lame, slow, and expensive. Putting it next to a current smartphone (hell it wasn't even a phone), it's like putting Rosanne Barr next to Scarlet Johansen....
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Funnily enough, my first real gadget was a Palm IIIc. I loved that thing.
 
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xSauronx

Lifer
Jul 14, 2000
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http://www.recycledgoods.com/zoom_s_p_10744_1.jpg.ashx

iomega Zip external pata drive with 100MB disks.

what a fucking waste, it was $100 for the drive with a disk, and another $12 per disk. it was painfully slow. added to that, drivers were a bitch. i lost the original driver floppy, and the replacement drivers you could download were bigger than a floppy...and this was well before writable CDs were around.

grrr.
 
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Possessed Freak

Diamond Member
Nov 4, 1999
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Originally posted by: xSauronx
http://www.recycledgoods.com/zoom_s_p_10744_1.jpg.ashx

iomega Zip external pata drive with 100MB disks.

what a fucking waste, it was $100 for the drive with a disk, and another $12 per disk. it was painfully slow. added to that, drivers were a bitch. i lost the original driver floppy, and the replacement drivers you could download were bigger than a floppy...and this was well before writable CDs were around.

grrr.
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Hey don't knock that, I used to toss porn on zip disks to keep the hard drive clean!
 
Barfo

Barfo

Lifer
Jan 4, 2005
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Originally posted by: xSauronx
http://www.recycledgoods.com/zoom_s_p_10744_1.jpg.ashx

iomega Zip external pata drive with 100MB disks.

what a fucking waste, it was $100 for the drive with a disk, and another $12 per disk. it was painfully slow. added to that, drivers were a bitch. i lost the original driver floppy, and the replacement drivers you could download were bigger than a floppy...and this was well before writable CDs were around.

grrr.
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You should've used a zip drive :laugh:
 
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xSauronx

Lifer
Jul 14, 2000
19,586
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Originally posted by: Possessed Freak
Originally posted by: xSauronx
http://www.recycledgoods.com/zoom_s_p_10744_1.jpg.ashx

iomega Zip external pata drive with 100MB disks.

what a fucking waste, it was $100 for the drive with a disk, and another $12 per disk. it was painfully slow. added to that, drivers were a bitch. i lost the original driver floppy, and the replacement drivers you could download were bigger than a floppy...and this was well before writable CDs were around.

grrr.
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Hey don't knock that, I used to toss porn on zip disks to keep the hard drive clean!
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i was a teenager so...yeah. :)
 
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Possessed Freak

Diamond Member
Nov 4, 1999
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Originally posted by: Leros
Originally posted by: Possessed Freak
ALR 6x6

What a money sink. You have to click through the links to fully understand how geeky this sucker was.
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What made you build this?
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Dude, 1.2 ghz of pentium pro goodness. I wish that site was mine, but picture a more ghetto solution to get mine up and running.
 
thescreensavers

thescreensavers

Diamond Member
Aug 3, 2005
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Logitech io Personal Digital Pen

Always ran out of paper, and It never could read my handwriting that well. so it was useless
 
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