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.
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.
The CED! Also, there is no ‘K’ in MiniDisc.
iomega zip disk
The drive had to be SCSI connected, of course.
Nintendo 64. Mine is currently broken.
slotMusic
@yakkoTDI Lame
slotRadio was where it was at. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SlotRadio
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/
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.