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Years ago I worked at an electronics store and have seen some very interesting products over the years with some being very useful.

Not sure how to do a poll on here but wanted to see how people matched on the ownership of some of these useful devices .

Have you ever owned a My (answers)

-PDA? Yes, I had a Palm IIIe

-DVD-Recorder? Yes. Successor to VCR sure didn't last long... ๐Ÿ˜–

-WebTV? No. Interactive TV in the days of dial-up. ๐Ÿ™‚

-3D Television? No

-Raspberry PI? No but I want to.

-Internet Radio Player? No This would be fun especially if it also had am/FM tuner

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[โ€“] LucasWaffyWaf 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not the target age (mid 20), but I daily drive a Dell Axim X5 with Windows Mobile 2003 on it. Still got a smart phone, but I enjoy using old PDAs as my alarm, jotting in appointments, calculating store prices, taking notes and making lists, and it's useful for swapping restaurant TVs away from Fox News!

[โ€“] SinningStromgald 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

useful for swapping restaurant TVs away from Fox News!

Why did phone manufacturers stop putting IR transmitters in phones? So damned useful it was having one!

[โ€“] LucasWaffyWaf 1 points 1 year ago

Admittedly it's a garbage means of transferring data xD I once transferred Doom from a HTC phone to a PDA. It took many minutes to do, and I had to restart it at one point xD