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

  • Slappula
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    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.

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      1 year ago

      I remember being so happy going into Comp-USA and seeing so many different gadgets that I wanted to buy. It might have been 2000 when I bought my Palm PDA but they had been on the decline a little bit by then. I never hot my $300 out of it that’s for sure.

      Regarding Raspberry Pi gonna see if there is a community for it on Lemmy. Maybe that would be part of the Linux discussion.

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        1 year ago

        They did. But even at the height of its popularity, there were only a handful of movies that had it.

        The glasses were around $170 per (if I remember correctly). That was a big barrier to entry.