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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: markie on August 26, 2005, 02:30:00 pm

Title: ipod-kills!
Post by: markie on August 26, 2005, 02:30:00 pm

The competition:
 
  Bu-Bye Rio! (http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/portable-media/index.php#goodbye-rio-your-funding-burned-out-long-before-your-legend-ever-did-122538)

Title: Re: ipod-kills!
Post by: brennser on August 26, 2005, 02:49:00 pm

aaah, the nostalgia - I remember waaaay back in 2000, when I got this and would spend hours convincing people that yes, you could listen to 2 whole CDs on it!!
 
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Title: Re: ipod-kills!
Post by: markie on August 26, 2005, 02:52:00 pm

You must have been quite the early adopter. 64Mb of storage power......
 
 http://www.rioworld.org/rio500-new.htm (http://www.rioworld.org/rio500-new.htm)

Title: Re: ipod-kills!
Post by: brennser on August 26, 2005, 03:21:00 pm

it was a great little machine - its still in a drawer somewhere in the house

Title: Re: ipod-kills!
Post by: on August 26, 2005, 03:27:00 pm

Markie was first on the bandwagon for all of these gadgets. (http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000430055334/)
 
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Title: Re: ipod-kills!
Post by: markie on August 26, 2005, 03:31:00 pm

Sorry, I think I am a late adopter. I don't even have a cell phone.
 
 I did have one of those horrible boom boxes with the built in record player. It was poor.