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[PhilipVanDusen]

As a musician my Yamaha MT1X - 4 track cassette recorder was a road warrior and responsible for so much of my creative output for over 15 years.

[NutshellBrainery]

Well now that was quite the walk down memory lane!! I remember--and used-- each and every one of those products. And felt cutting-edge in so doing.

[billgross]

Yes, yes, yes!
* 300 baud modem calling to RBBS-PC. (And it was a great day when we figured out how to overclock it to 450.)
* Iomega Zip Drive - loved all that storage. Saved doing backups onto dozens of 5.5" 360k floppies.
* Loved my Palm Pilot.
* I did college work on a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A, saving data to a cassette. Later graduated to an IBM-PC jr with an expansion for a second disk.

Oh! Those were heady days!!!
Thanks for the walk down memory lane, Steve!

[Jivolt]

Handspring Visor PDA circa 2001. Was finally able to organize my ADHD life.

I can remember when I got a Zip drive and was blown away by the amount of storage it had.

[Steven_VESY]

Started with Tandy phone adapter. the one that you put the hand set into the cups.Then some commercial modem at 1200 baud. Ended with a US robotics 2400 baud. I even ran a BBS with 4 lines!!!!. WE used to bring in the old new groups, can even remember the name. It cam down via satellite, but the outgoing was dial up! I had the zip drive as well. loved it.

[MikeFD]

Hi Steve - wow - memory lane! My first iconic device was the original Sinclair 4 function calculation. Really small in the hand but only did the four functions (+ - * / ) but was totally revolutionary at the time. Next iconic was the Sinclair ZX81 - with a massive 2k RAM and 16k RAM addition. That's where I started to learn my coding skills. Later onto the Amstrad 1512 with dual floppy drive, no HDD!! Bought an HDD for it (20Mb) as a plug in extension card about a year later. Real coding started on a punch-card programmed mainframe using Cobol 68 at university it had a "massive" 128k core memory !! Out into the world of work and 1000's of hours spent machine coding on Z80 and later the Motorola 68000 - I knew those code sets like the back of my hand. I could keep going with my history lesson (it's long) but just one more, yes I did have a Palm Pilot - it really was so leading edge at the time. Crazy where we've got to in the last 30 years. Where next ??

[BryanSpellman]

Palm Pilot everyday user...for life. I had everything in there. My lord it was awesome.

[deborahgoodrow]

I had a Palm Pilot. I -LOVED- it. Kept it for the longest time, resisted going to smartphones because I could sync it to my computer. Until I discovered Google and how it saved everything to the cloud and across my pc and my phone, you could not tear the Palm Pilot from my fingers.

[StacyBraiuca]

I think this show pretty much chronicled my tech life, except for starting with a Commodore 64 with a tape drive all before these...

[WoodyCollins]

I can remember rushing from church to Circuit City and buying the Compaq Pocket PC. A great device with phone, modem, and running a version of Windows Office suite. I stopped using the paper Daytimer and my watch. I went paperless!

[carriebuchda]

Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I remember learning to program on an Apple IIe in college for my Physical Chemistry class. It was the only way to crank through the assignments. We had to program around the computer’s inability to handle very large and very small numbers. The learning curve was steep! I still miss that computer.

[eugeniamoreno]

Loved Palm Pilot and later Handspring Treo. Still think it was more functional and more safe. It was the product and we were the Masters and keepers of our data. (Sigh)

[ralphweeks]

I learned to program on my Vic20 and my brother-in-law's Apple II. Used to test a snippet of code on the Vic20 and when I got it working correctly I would transcribe it to the AppleII. Was a lot of fun and taught be quite a bit. Back then PC Magazine would include code for different programs that you could type into your computer -- that too was a great leaning experience.

[avrumgolub]

A Wollensak portable reel-to-reel tape recorder, an Apple PowerBook 3400, WordPerfect for Mac, and my Zip Drive.

[phawke]

I loved the ZIP drive, Palm Pilot and Mac SE. It is good to see them again. My first home computer was from Texas Instruments - TI99-4A. I wrote a program to simulate emergency siren noises and then I recorded it onto a cassette and played it through my car speakers really loud as I drove around the neighbourhood. Don't try this at home boys & girls.

[dennisdiede]

The TRS-80. Serial number 404 (1979?). It ONLY had a cassette for storage. I was a Radio Shack dealer. Taught me to program in Basic (Fun Times)

[azlhoffman]

OMG I loved, loved my Palm Pilot. Used it for years. But did hate having to carry it as a second item up against when I got my first Motorola flip phone. Was happy when I finally got a Treo phone +PDA. Those were the days!

[doceyetjw]

Steve, I have said it before and I will say it again, I think we have led parallel lives! I had the US Robotics Sportster, the IOmega Zip drive and loved my Palm Pilot. I never had the Newton but instead got my all time favorite Palm vX, my first computer was a Toshiba laptop with a monochrome screen.

[ltbaxter]

Oh my our grey is showing here!! *LOVED* the Iomega Zip drive - you could literally copy the system folder on the Mac and boot off the drive. The original floppy disk was an amazing game changer. "Random access" as opposed to my cassette player I had to use to store programs before then :) HP-15C calculator, RPN styel, was also one of my most beloved pieces of technology.

[Walleyeeater]

Here's something. I never followed older tech like you did but I do remember the tandy trs 80 computer coming out. The new thing of it's time. Boy we got it good now.