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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: 0.212s | source
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secstate ◴[30 Jun 25 03:42 UTC] No.44419127[source]▶
I wonder if it was the Creative Nomad [1] ... I had a Jukebox that had a 6GB spinning disk in it originally. Upgrading to a 20GB drive was the first real hackery thing I did with my old RedHat box. I had to buy an IDE converter too to move between the laptop connector to the desktop.

That was also when I learned what happens if you dd a Creative Nomad Jukebox system image onto your root partition while the machine is running. The RedHat install stayed stable for about 20 minutes before weird things started failing and eventually the whole thing just locked up. Remember kids, always check you dd out file path!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Nomad

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zerocrates ◴[30 Jun 25 04:58 UTC] No.44419563[source]▶
My first MP3 player was the Creative MuVo. The storage part (actually, really everything but the battery holder) you could disconnect and use as a USB stick, which was also how you loaded music onto it. I (correctly) thought this was very cool.

I eventually did get an iPod, the one that was all capacitive touch buttons and wheel, the last one before the click wheel.

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1. pxc ◴[30 Jun 25 13:37 UTC] No.44423130[source]▶
The other thing that was great about the MuVo music players is that they all had tactile controls. I used to listen with them while riding my bicycle, and I could operate mine in any way I needed to with it still in my pocket: repeating a track, skipping a track, changing albums, toggling shuffle, etc.