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In the end the palm pilot died. I took it on a holiday to Australia for my brother's wedding in 2001. I went for six weeks and at one point hired a bike to ride around in the hills, but it was so hot and I got so sweaty that the palm pilot in my bag got wet and died. Then when I went to Sydney and stayed in a backpackers hostel somebody saw it and stole it from my bag.
If you can name these 12 computer components, you're officially old
I can't help but think that articles like this just demonstrate how childish their writers are. Yes, technology changes. Professionals keep up.
One day you'll be left behind.
If you can name these 12 computer components, you're officially old
And no mention of loading software from tape.
If you can name these 12 computer components, you're officially old
That's not correct. To utilise (or with a z) something is to put it to use in an effective way. The definition does not state anything about the intended use of the object
If you can name these 12 computer components, you're officially old
Well I'm officially ancient because FireWire is a new, but failed, technology.
I used to have a palm pilot, which was an early kind of tablet which came out of the electronic personal organiser tech of the 90s. It could store E-books, browse the internet, and send and receive emails, as well as the standard personal organiser diaries and calendars. To use the internet away from WiFi you needed to connect it to a mobile device using infrared, so your phone with its infrared sensor would have to line up with the infrared sensor on the palm pilot. It was very slow
It's time you stopped using USB flash drives - I use these instead
Surely most people would just use a combination of storage types depending on what works best in the situation. I use portable SSDs, USB flash drives, and SD cards, as well as the cloud of course. Why would you arbitrarily remove one of those options?