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We wanted a monkey butler and bought one off eBay. Imagine our surprise when we found it was just an ordinary monkey with rabies. Worse: It had no butler training at all. Tell us about your duff technology purchases.

Thanks to Moonbadger for the suggestion

(I helped save b3ta! Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 29 Sep 2011, 12:51)
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minidisc player
pile of junk

and don't get me started on walkie talkies... (although awesome when you are 10)
(I helped save b3ta! zulu eh?, Thu 29 Sep 2011, 13:50, 8 replies)
Oh
I used to love my minidisc player, it's just a shame that their window of usefulness was so short lived.
(I helped save b3ta! scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 29 Sep 2011, 13:52, closed)
^This in spades^
Ace it was. I had a stereo with a triple minidisc changer in it too, the height of fucking decadence I can tell you.
(I helped save b3ta! number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Thu 29 Sep 2011, 13:59, closed)
Also
Loved mine and kept it for years, no complaints from me.
(robneymcplum spiced up his life on, Thu 29 Sep 2011, 15:41, closed)
I bought one aswell
I spent more time getting stuff onto it than I did actually listening to it.
(Studentken is looking for motivation on, Thu 29 Sep 2011, 13:57, closed)
Minidiscs were great!
They filled the brief period between CDs and CDRs. How else could you make a mix tape with the high quality sound* and random access of a CD? Granted it was impossible to make a mix tape for a significant other because the only three people who owned a minidisc player were us here on this thread.




*yes yes I'm aware it was compressed with ATRAC but it was still better than tape
(I helped save b3ta! AWPS, Thu 29 Sep 2011, 14:13, closed)
I had a mini-disc player.
I might still have it in a cupboard somewhere unless it got eBay'd. I got quite a lot of use out of it.

As for walkie talkies, they are awesome. My brother and I had some Rambo ones when we were kids and it had a morse code button on it, complete with code guide.
(ThatNiceMan thought he was being funny, Thu 29 Sep 2011, 14:14, closed)
aah the joy of trying to use morse code
at least SOS is easy enough
(I helped save b3ta! zulu eh?, Thu 29 Sep 2011, 14:25, closed)
As a listening device, they went obsolete VERY quickly.
As a recording device, I was using them for several years. I only switched over to digital when it started to die (even Sony have given up on customer support for them).
(I helped save b3ta! Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Wed 5 Oct 2011, 10:52, closed)

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