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Touching the back wall of the Apple store

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252 points nivethan | 1 comments | 27 Jun 25 02:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.261s | source
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userbinator ◴[30 Jun 25 04:26 UTC] No.44419366[source]▶
The MP3 player I had before that iPod was a much more generic one. I've spent the last few days occasionally checking Wikipedia and other places online to see if I can tell which one it was, and I have absolutely no idea.

Might've been an S1, which arguably was better than Apple's products in many ways, and likely sold a lot more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S1_MP3_player

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1. lloeki ◴[30 Jun 25 06:36 UTC] No.44420150[source]▶
Oh my these devices were everywhere.

I started with a 32 MB Diamond Rio PMP300, so cramped as I transcoded music to 64kbps just to cram an hour in there, but the ability to listen to music without it _ever_ skipping (I was MTBing in the summer and snowboarding in the winter) was invaluable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_PMP300

And then upgraded to a 64MB Rio 600

https://tweakers.net/ext/i/964783073.jpg

After that it was straight up to a 4GB black iPod Nano gen 1 that I rocked for a loooooong time as it was insanely hardened and durable.