I buy into technology that very soon after disappears without a trace...
Some choice investments include: the Neo-Geo Pocket, Mega CD, Sega 32-X, Atari Lynx, Atari Jaguar 64, MiniDisk players, Psion organisers, Sega Saturn, HD-DVD, Sony PocketStation...

I'm afraid it's not looking good for Xbox 360 owner, BT Vision customers or iPhone 4 keepers...
(Miraclefish How appropriate, you fight like a cow, Thu 23 Sep 2010, 16:15, 13 replies)

Psion organisers!
*nostalgia covets*
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 23 Sep 2010, 16:28, closed)

I had to google it
It just looks like a glorified calculator
(NuffMuff fucks shrubbery, Thu 23 Sep 2010, 16:38, closed)

Oh, my lad...
It was so much more than that. It could handle 16 greyscale colours! And had an ahead-of-its-time unversally accessible database system. Shitty when trying to connect over IrDA though..
(Miraclefish How appropriate, you fight like a cow, Thu 23 Sep 2010, 16:41, closed)

Oh 16 greyscale colours you say
I might dip into my pocket money and treat myself
(NuffMuff fucks shrubbery, Thu 23 Sep 2010, 16:50, closed)

You've a treat in store
Just don't try to read the screen in direct sunlight. Or connect it to anything. I tell you what, though, writing shopping lists will become an act of sheer, late 1990s joy!
(Miraclefish How appropriate, you fight like a cow, Thu 23 Sep 2010, 16:56, closed)

That's where you went wrong then
you wanted to wait a year or so and get a Palm Pilot whereby you could scrawl indecipherable text shorthand using a plastic stick and have your shopping list show up as:

2 bogs of partaties
wishong poseur
throw pick af cindoms

Having done this you could also fail to sync it to anything using irda or the cable. Did fit nicely in the pocket though!
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Thu 23 Sep 2010, 17:26, closed)

Oh yes, I also bought a Palm IIIc
Which I loaded up with eBooks including the LOTR trilogy - which I planned to read for the first time in Crete.

Sadly it 1) failed to recognise any non-standard characters and 2)wiped itself for no reason after two days.

So I got to the bit where □□mer met □owyn after reading about □oth□od and it died on me…
(Miraclefish How appropriate, you fight like a cow, Thu 23 Sep 2010, 17:34, closed)

I never quite kicked the habit myself
Went through a IIIc, a V, and a Vx and then a Titanium which to be fair was actually capable of doing a shit load of clever things. Tell that to kids of today with their iPhones and their paranoid Androids and they won't believe you. Mind you I did decide against an Apple Newton back in the day...had a demo and it wouldn't recognise any letters!
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Thu 23 Sep 2010, 17:38, closed)

I now have, against my better judgement, an Apple phone 4
It's sorta alright. I mean it's fucking lightyears ahead of my old, pointless and, essentially, impossible to use gadgets, but I don't feel like a tech pioneer, bravely battling with serial port conflicts and desperately shifting data around to make use of the 4MB of user-available storage.

If you have an iPhone you're a media cunt, if you have one of these, you're on the bleeding edge!


(Miraclefish How appropriate, you fight like a cow, Thu 23 Sep 2010, 17:52, closed)

Wouldn't worry
I think it is pretty much impossible to be a pioneer these days. Whatever proves instantly popular gets the development investment and all else gets shelved...not as much fun as fucking about with ribbon cables and IRQ resolution but probably more productive. I will however have to out myself as a recent Apple convert (not a fanboy however, they do fuck things up just like any other tech company). Best thing you can do is shove it all in a drawer and then show it to your kids because they will never believe we used to do any sort of work in 16 shade grayscale or had to sync using a cable!!
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Fri 24 Sep 2010, 8:20, closed)

Ahh, I remember...
When devices had to be plugged in when the system booted.

Hotswappable, young Jimmy? Never heard of it!
(Miraclefish How appropriate, you fight like a cow, Mon 27 Sep 2010, 10:08, closed)

Atari Jaguar 64
I bought one for £30 and also picked up Aliens vs Predator for a fiver from electronics boutique

Bloody awesome console!

Bloody awful controllers though!
(Lip Up Fatty Fatty Reggae still loves BBQ food on, Thu 23 Sep 2010, 17:29, closed)

Neo Geo Pocket
still use mine all the time. I need nothing more than Gal Fighters
(kdot6, Thu 23 Sep 2010, 21:17, closed)