Client just brought this to me with some pictures to edit on it

11/28/2010 10:21:59 PM

Shit will hold like 1-2 songs and a jpeg.

11/28/2010 10:30:39 PM

probably cost $texas back in the day

11/28/2010 10:46:55 PM

I had a 32 MB mp3 player back in the day. Haha held like 1-2 CDs

11/28/2010 10:53:53 PM

More than my first hard disk.

It could hold War and Peace, the Bible and the unabridged english dictionary, all with no moving parts and under a very large temperature range.

[Edited on November 28, 2010 at 11:56 PM. Reason : Don't be ingrateful, it makes you look foolish.]

11/28/2010 11:51:18 PM

^ Nobody gives a shit about your tough life back in 1985. Fact is, it's 2010 and they can get 8 gigs for like 10 bucks

11/29/2010 1:03:31 AM

You're the doomed generation.

11/29/2010 6:32:26 AM

^^^It all becomes clear now.

11/29/2010 7:44:38 AM

Nah, I'm just screwing with you. I'm actually 21. I've never seen a 16MB hard drive. Played a shit-ton of pokemon though.

11/29/2010 12:21:23 PM

11/29/2010 12:28:24 PM

^^ Aw now you were just trollin'.

11/29/2010 7:32:38 PM

That looks like a Dell flash drive. I've got a 256Mb and 512Mb one.

11/29/2010 8:03:32 PM

dmidkiff just BBM'ed me with his 64MB Dell

Classic. You just never expect to see one from a client when you do computer stuff for a living.

11/29/2010 8:46:15 PM

I had a Dell 16mb, but can't find it anywhere...here is its replacement:

11/29/2010 8:46:16 PM

NCSU CSC Dept. gave all their grads in 2007 a 32MB usb drive upon crossing the stage.

woo

12/2/2010 11:02:09 AM

When I first took this job back in 2003, they gave me a 256mb stick and thought that was one hella job perk at the time.

12/2/2010 11:15:33 AM

^ "thats like 200 floppys!" is what they were thinking

12/2/2010 11:52:31 AM

^^ in '03? I remember getting my first 1GB stick in high school (around then) and paying like $90 for it on black friday - only thing I've ever gotten at one of those sales.

12/2/2010 1:03:43 PM

1GB Flash in HS!!!

We were lucky to have 2.5" drives! Those 5.25" floppies were everywhere!

12/2/2010 1:29:02 PM

I was them man on my dorm floor when my napster folder hit 1gb.

I only downloaded 192 and up. /snob

12/2/2010 1:37:57 PM

the biggest HDDs on this table are probably like 40 MB

12/2/2010 5:10:39 PM

Quote :

"I had a 32 MB mp3 player back in the day. Haha held like 1-2 CDs"

I had the 32 MB Diamond Rio mp3 player back in late 1999

http://www.amazon.com/Rio-PMP300-Diamond-Digital-Player/dp/B00000JBAT

One morning sitting in my car waiting for Student Wolfpack Club tickets I had the random idea to plug the player in directly to my amplifier and marveled at being able to change which tunes I had in my car without needing a CD. This immediately spawned the idea of how to get more storage and I ultimately ended up putting in a PC with 5" screen and a whopping 40GB hard drive complete with DC-DC supply and all. This was likely the first dedicated PC for playing tunes at State (not some ghey "oh I'm gonna put a laptop in and sit it in my passenger seat shit").

[Edited on December 2, 2010 at 6:58 PM. Reason : .]

12/2/2010 6:58:23 PM

I wanted a Diamond Rio so bad.

I know! Before mp3s you couldn't change music instantly while having access to a large selection.

12/3/2010 12:29:10 AM

I took my Rio to summer camp one year. Had the Hackers soundtrack on that for like 3 weeks, at 64kbps. Awful stuff. Girls were like "what's that?" and I was all like "it's an mp3 player" and girls were all like "what's an mp3?"

The nice thing about them was that they had no moving parts and ran on a single AA battery. Annoying thing was the battery latch broke really easily. They fixed this in the Rio 500, but then the buttons would stick.

It was either way before its time, or it paved the way.

12/6/2010 12:05:44 AM

^^^ i think it was scrager who i first saw build a dedicated mp3 player for his car. 2000/2001ish

12/6/2010 12:36:18 AM

Quote :

"NCSU CSC Dept. gave all their grads in 2007 a 32MB usb drive upon crossing the stage."

I got no such thing...

12/6/2010 8:00:18 PM

that's ok, cause 32mb was still worthless 3 yrs ago. Although in 2007 I bought 1000 128MB sticks for 9.80 a piece.

12/6/2010 9:58:49 PM