anyone remember this ?

[NeoVo]

I still have one of those watches, I had no idea they were worth that much second hand :O

 

[RetiredGreyFox]

I think those tape (DAT) drives were geared towards corporate use, for server/database backups. My old work had 10 tapes, 1 a day, for Monday to Friday of week 1, and again 1 a day for week 2, and they would alternate. Whichever tape set wasn't in use that week (1-5 or 6-10) would go to one of our houses as off-site backup.

Lots of recording studios and artists had them.
I remember the top Queen tribute at the time having two of them and they were basically miming on stage.

 

[Cosimo]

Thread should be renamed to "Nostalgia Gadget Thread"!

My first MP3 player was a Creative MuVo2. It was pretty mediocre to be honest!

Had a couple of those and removed the Microdrive that was in one of them.

 

[Psypher5]

Loved this!

 

[Squark]

IRiver H120 20gb here

Me too. It was great.

 

[TehBluebear]

Hilarious thread

I knew about the calculator-watches, didn't know they could change TV channels too.

On a similar vein I guess, and being hard of hearing, I had these radio aids so that I could hear the teacher better. However, they had the same range as wifi so would work 1-2 rooms away no probs. Sometimes, the teacher would leave the classroom briefly with his microphone still on, and still in range. I would eavesdrop using my hearing aids and relay to the rest of the class what he was saying. It quite often involved swearing

Good to know that I wasn't alone in doing this! Made for hilarious times when we heard staff going to talk to other teachers and ****** and blinding, not realising they hadn't turned off their mic. Best part was that my receiver had two aux jacks, so I usually got someone else plugged in too.

 

[uvarvu]

I had a Rio PMP300 - 13 tracks of MP3 goodness! Picked it up from Tottenham Court Road back in the day.

 

[Reeve]

I still have one of those Casio remote control watches in a drawer somewhere, I used to love gimmicky stuff like that. I still do I guess

I also have a Panasonic RQ-SX75. That thing was amazing, if not ridiculously expensive as it cost £100. It certainly looked the part though as it had a very cool looking LCD remote and the unit itself was not much bigger than a cassette, it also had insane search speeds. I managed to get some sand in it when I went on a school trip years ago, it kept making a screeching sound after that so I stopped using it.

 

[V F]

Good to know that I wasn't alone in doing this! Made for hilarious times when we heard staff going to talk to other teachers and ****** and blinding, not realising they hadn't turned off their mic. Best part was that my receiver had two aux jacks, so I usually got someone else plugged in too.

I'm assuming these sort of things don't happen nowadays in school the fact nearly everyone including kids owns smart phones. I'm assuming they've to hand them in at the start of each class?