Digital portables archaeology

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    Samsung from 1999, Stereo Magazine


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    2002 Stereo Magazine, the Creative MuVo


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    2007, the Sony Rolly, I had to look this one up, there's some on Ebay, it really looks like a football.


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    Point of View Magazine 1999, 64 Megs, yea baby! Some very early Mp3 Players.


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    HiFi Audio Video 1992, the neat little Sony Discman


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    This is neat, a "Discman" from the 90's but for data, I bet these are pretty rare, anybody seen one before?


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    1993 was around the beginning of consumer digital formats.


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    Radioelektronik 2003


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    It wasn't difficult to find a couple on eBay along with the Panasonic equivalent
    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/389812993332
    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/115995122189

    What appears to be more difficult is finding one with all the necessary cables. They aren't the sort of thing you can pick up any week on eBay.

    Before USB became standard there were numerous ways of connecting external drives.
    • Parallel Port.
    • PCMCIA
    • SCSI via a PCMCIA adaptor.
    I have a Toshiba Pentium II laptop. That hedges its bets with
    • Internal CD Drive
    • Internal Floppy
    • Parallel Port
    • A single USB port hidden behind a flap in a "we doubt if you will use this" manner.
    I haven't tried a CD drive on the USB ports but with USB sticks I have one 512MByte which it recognises can be used with a Generic Win 98 driver.
    With every other one I have tried it says it needs the USB device manufacturers Win98 drives installing in order to recognise it.

    Finally a bonus Sony CDROM where you won't lose the cable. Would it work on other brands of computer ?
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    That's neat, I have an old PC card with wireless for hooking up to the internet in the old days. Those cards came out and they were going to do all kinds of optional gadgets with them but the manufacturers started putting the features inside the laptop and the quickly disappeared. Funny I now need a USB CD/DVD player for my portable computers since none have them anymore.
     
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