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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: 0.208s | 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. Nursie ◴[30 Jun 25 07:45 UTC] No.44420553[source]▶
Archos did some of the very earliest HDD-containing players back in the day, and beat the ipod to market by about a year (December 2000 launch).

My first mp3 player was a 20GB archos xs202, which I loved. Partly for being a great music player, partly for being a generic 20GB external drive when needed. I think at one point I had it set up both as a music player and to boot debian on a host PC when connected via USB...