Years ago I worked at an electronics store and have seen some very interesting products over the years with some being very useful.

Not sure how to do a poll on here but wanted to see how people matched on the ownership of some of these useful devices .

Have you ever owned a My (answers)

-PDA? Yes, I had a Palm IIIe

-DVD-Recorder? Yes. Successor to VCR sure didn’t last long… 😖

-WebTV? No. Interactive TV in the days of dial-up. 🙂

-3D Television? No

-Raspberry PI? No but I want to.

-Internet Radio Player? No This would be fun especially if it also had am/FM tuner

  • Deebster@lemmyrs.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    • PDA: I loved my Palm Pilot and I can still write using that script (was quite nice when I noticed my Android keyboard supported it)

    • Raspberry Pi: this feels weird to be on this list! I still have one in the living room running Kodi

    • No to the others, although I did have one of these beauties: Photo of a silver Sony MZ-R900 portable minidisk player with inline remote

  • Slappula@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Great idea for a post!

    -PDA? Yes- Handspring Visor. It was supposed to be the Palm killer (it did have some success, as I remember).

    -DVD-Recorder? No

    -WebTV? No, but my less tech savvy friend had one. Those seemed doomed to fail.

    -3D Television? Yes- spend way to much on two pairs of glasses that were used less than five time.

    -Raspberry PI? Yes, but haven’t done enough with it.

    -Internet Radio Player? No

    I also had some type of smart pen around 2001 that would transfer what you wrote onto the computer. I think you had to plug the top of the pen into a USB port. It was a large pen (probably the size width of 5-6 normal pens combined). I can’t find the name of it. I think you had to have a special notebook with it too.

  • spittingimage@lemmy.worldEnglish
    06·
    1 year ago

    PDA: I had a Palm Pilot I rescued from a scrap bin at work and installed an open source OS on. I used it as an ereader until the eye strain from reading on that small screen started giving me headaches.

    DVD recorder: No. I gave up on broadcast TV when I was 17 and the amount of advertising time hit 25 minutes per hour. I watched everything on rented DVDs until video streaming and adblockers became a thing.

    WebTV: No. It was never available in my country.

    3D TV: No. I was waiting for the format to get more support, then it went away entirely.

    Raspberry Pi: Yes! I could never get wifi working on it, which limited its usefulness. Still fun to play with until I somehow broke the HDMI out.

    Internet Radio: Kinda. That’s what I used the Pi for after breaking video.