I voted floppy disk, but MP3 players were a pretty great advancement. My first could only hold about 20-30 songs because storage was still horrible back then, but the fact that I could swap out what I was going to listen to while going out to skate was just fantastic.
Now that I can fit thousands of MP3s on my phone but just use a streaming service.
Windows that worked and was only a moderate resource hog. Like XP or 7 kind of were.
Win 10 runs so much background crap that when it looks like it’s running, it’s still starting up… starting up… starting up…
Fastest computer I ever had was Win 3.1 on a 486DX-25. It couldn’t do all the stuff modern machines can do, but anything it could do, it did almost instantly.
@2many2no My Raspberry Pi with the Rasbian environment is damned near instant in booting and app fetching/starting. But admittedly I don’t have much running on it at the moment.
Not sure how this isn’t the cassette player. Never really enjoyed carrying a walkman-sized CD player around, and cassette is the only way you’re listening to analog music on the go… unless someone knows of some weird mobile 8-track player I’ve never seen. But then have you looked at the selection of what was released on 8-track tape recently? So still no.
There is something to be gained by being nearly forced to listen to an entire album, in order, over and over.
slotMusic
@yakkoTDI Lame
slotRadio was where it was at. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SlotRadio
I voted floppy disk, but MP3 players were a pretty great advancement. My first could only hold about 20-30 songs because storage was still horrible back then, but the fact that I could swap out what I was going to listen to while going out to skate was just fantastic.
Now that I can fit thousands of MP3s on my phone but just use a streaming service.
Nintendo 64. Mine is currently broken.
Windows that worked and was only a moderate resource hog. Like XP or 7 kind of were.
Win 10 runs so much background crap that when it looks like it’s running, it’s still starting up… starting up… starting up…
Fastest computer I ever had was Win 3.1 on a 486DX-25. It couldn’t do all the stuff modern machines can do, but anything it could do, it did almost instantly.
Maybe it’s time for Mint.
@2many2no My Raspberry Pi with the Rasbian environment is damned near instant in booting and app fetching/starting. But admittedly I don’t have much running on it at the moment.
@2many2no MX Linux is another distribution to consider, as it runs even lighter than Mint.
I do have to rollback one of my computers that was “upgraded” to 11. I don’t like it.
@narfcake Unlike the 10 -> 7 rollback, you only have 10 days to rollback Win 11, unless…
https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-11-give-yourself-more-time-to-roll-back-the-upgrade/
The CED! Also, there is no ‘K’ in MiniDisc.
Not sure how this isn’t the cassette player. Never really enjoyed carrying a walkman-sized CD player around, and cassette is the only way you’re listening to analog music on the go… unless someone knows of some weird mobile 8-track player I’ve never seen. But then have you looked at the selection of what was released on 8-track tape recently? So still no.
There is something to be gained by being nearly forced to listen to an entire album, in order, over and over.
Amiga.
iomega zip disk
The drive had to be SCSI connected, of course.