It is a Creative Nomad Jukebox MP3 player. It uses the hard drive from a laptop pc. Its four AA NI-MH cells last only about 2 hours of playing.
The unit looks as big as a CD player but it is heavier. It is about 2.5 years old.
An iPod is much smaller and its battery lasts much longer.

Sorry, its hard drive is 10GB, not a tiny 10MB.

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Ah, okay. I was thinking "hmmmm, 10MB? I'm pretty sure by the time the first MP3 player came out that we had much better memory densities."

 

My first pc was a 486 that came with a whopping 4MB of RAM and a 540MB hard drive. It died a couple of years ago with 52MB of RAM and a 2.1GB drive.
My camera has 1GB of RAM.

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Yeah, but it has zero harddrive space lol.

 

Your camera doesn't have that much RAM, it's flash memory not RAM, it probably only has 64MB of RAM or even less.

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Of course, my camera has non-volatile memory.
Is the 1GB memory stick in my camera the same an EEPROM?

The new tiny iPod doesn't have enough room for a hard drive but it has a hard drive.

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yep, pretty much - assuming you mean a modern day "flash" eeprom, like an i2c or spi type, or the memory inside a PIC F series microcontroller.

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My first P.C. was a 386 and had a 40 Meg hard drive.

Also, it cost me a fortune to upgrade to ' not much better '.

 

My first PC was an 8088 running at a blistering 10MHz. The drive was 20 MB.

Prior to that I had an HeathKit H11 with 32 MB of DRAM an Intertube(?sp) terminal and a Paper tiger printer. It was that or a new car.

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What's a 'hard drive'?

My first PC was an 80xx with two 720K floppies!

Before that I'd been using an Amiga for years, which I'd upgraded with a 40MB external hard drive.

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The H11 started out with paper tape.

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In about 1967 I serviced an office "computer" that had punched cards as its program and used core memory (tiny ferrite donuts on wires intersections).
It used DTL logic ICs.

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While showing a student how to strip a motherboard using a heat gun we found a Intersil ICL7673 battery backup chip. Mentioned in the battery backup thread started by Souper Man.

Also found some logic level FETs and the inductors from the DC DC converter circuits.

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I was only 11 in 67 but...

I programed a IBM 1620 that used punch cards.
Also a DataGeneral Nova where you had to toggle in the boot loader because it did not have a boot ROM.

Somehow I do not miss that...

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