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
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.
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.
Did those 3D tvs actually work?
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.
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