Topic: Gadgets Of Days Gone By

[sam]

Writing about the newest technology can be tiring. As a man once said, “Everything’s amazing and nobody’s happy.” More storage! More speed! I want apps and GPS and privacy! The days before terabyte external drives and gigahertz phone processors were a more tranquil time, though admittedly we look back on it through a rose-tinted lens. Still, in between all the underpowered Windows 98SE PCs, fragile flip-phones, and mammoth laptops, there were plenty of gadgets we still remember with no small affection.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/04/gadgets-of-days-gone-by/

[Rik]

Memory Lane is such a nice place.

[Clive]

I had one of those HP 500 inkjets.  What a load of rubbish!   

[Rik]

They were an improvement, in noise terms, on dot matrix printers, Clive.

[Simon]

I started on an underpowered Win98SE machine. 

[Rik]

A newcomer to the party, DOS then Windows 1...

[Clive]

They were an improvement, in noise terms, on dot matrix printers, Clive.

I actually liked the noise of a dot matrix!   

[Rik]

A 24-pin wide carriage running all day got to be a bit much.

[Clive]

The ones we had at work were enclosed in plastic cases to keep the noise down. 

[Rik]

The good old printer hood, complete with fan...

[Clive]

Printer hood.  That was it.   

[Rik]

A variation on an Easter bonnet.