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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

(, Thu 29 Sep 2011, 12:51)
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My first MP3 player
I bought around 10 years ago was one of the first MP3 players that was relatively affordable. It had a *massive* 48 megabytes of memory (about enough for an album in low quality) and connected via the computer's parallel port using a docking station (and therefore took sodding ages to copy songs onto). As for the screen, as far as I remember it just had two numbers to show you which track you were on, and the time. I think it cost about £50, and was obsolete within the year.
(, Thu 29 Sep 2011, 16:57, 3 replies)
You know
I think I had the same one. Shit battery life too.
(, Thu 29 Sep 2011, 17:53, closed)
I think I had the same one too,
was it the Soulmate? If so, you neglected to mention that it stored the songs in RAM and changing the batteries meant that you had to reload all of your music. (The manual described an arcane procedure that could be used to make sure you didn't lose the music but I never got it to work).

I still have mine in a drawer somewhere. The drivers work on Vista, but Music Match Jukebox 4 doesn't.
(, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 3:28, closed)
Aye, that's the one
How could I forget that? I knew there was something else - volatile memory, shit battery life and pre-USB transfers just don't mix.
(, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 18:05, closed)

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