Re: [MBZ] OT rainy afternoon serendipity with old tech

2021-02-02 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
They’re not unless you’ve got the packaging. I did have a 10GB scroll shell model with all the trimmings a few years ago the I offloaded. I think I got like $300 for it. Nothing like the profit I made on the Lego Super Bowl advertisement set I sold a few years ago. Some guy made a Lego set of t

Re: [MBZ] OT rainy afternoon serendipity with old tech

2021-02-01 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
Dan should check on ebay to see if they are in demand from Apple nerds. On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 12:31 PM Max Dillon via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Motorola phones have FM tuners, other Android phones also have them. I > wish they'd include AM tuner as well. > > Max Dillon > Charle

Re: [MBZ] OT rainy afternoon serendipity with old tech

2021-02-01 Thread Max Dillon via Mercedes
Motorola phones have FM tuners, other Android phones also have them.  I wish they'd include AM tuner as well. Max Dillon Charleston SC Feb 1, 2021 9:50:59 AM Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes : > I have an old music player of some kind, it has a small hard drive in it.  I > forget the capacity. 

Re: [MBZ] OT rainy afternoon serendipity with old tech

2021-02-01 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
Later ones did. I have one of the “minis” I use with my iPod HiFi in the garage so I can listen to the radio. -D > On Feb 1, 2021, at 7:50 AM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes > wrote: > > I have an old music player of some kind, it has a small hard drive in it. I > forget the capacity. The

Re: [MBZ] OT rainy afternoon serendipity with old tech

2021-02-01 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
Yes, the original ones. FireWire interface, hard drive, monochromatic screen. -D > On Feb 1, 2021, at 8:27 AM, Allan Streib via Mercedes > wrote: > > You mean the ones with an actual hard drive, LCD screen, and the round > selector thing on the front for selecting/browsing songs? > > Dan Pen

Re: [MBZ] OT rainy afternoon serendipity with old tech

2021-02-01 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
You mean the ones with an actual hard drive, LCD screen, and the round selector thing on the front for selecting/browsing songs? Dan Penoff via Mercedes writes: > I have a few 1st and 2nd gen iPods laying in a drawer. One a 5GB, the other a > 10GB, I think. I plug them in and fire them up once

Re: [MBZ] OT rainy afternoon serendipity with old tech

2021-02-01 Thread Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes
I have an old music player of some kind, it has a small hard drive in it. I forget the capacity. The battery is shot but it will run if plugged in, was still making tunes last I tried it a coupla years ago. I should check it again. It has a FM tuner too. I have always wondered why iPods and iF

Re: [MBZ] OT rainy afternoon serendipity with old tech

2021-02-01 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
I have a few 1st and 2nd gen iPods laying in a drawer. One a 5GB, the other a 10GB, I think. I plug them in and fire them up once in a while for grins. Pretty amazing to think how far we’ve come in such a short time. -D > On Jan 31, 2021, at 2:55 PM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes > wrote: > > 

[MBZ] OT rainy afternoon serendipity with old tech

2021-01-31 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
I was cleaning/organizing a bunch of stuff and found 2 old ipods I guess I forgot I had, I think I had put music and such on my phone so didn't use them anymore.  No telling how long they had been sitting in a case, I plugged them in and charged them and both are working, one is 16GB and the ot