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- Dot-matrix printers
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I had one of those in college, everyone else had ink jets. It took 9 hours (all night--thankfully I didn't have a roommate at the time) to print out a 30 page paper. 9 screaching, whirring hours.
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- Networks based on cable (not cat-5 cable)
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I set up one of those networks for my dad. You couldn't let the distance between two nodes get too long or too short, or let the cable coil or double-back on itself. Real PITA.
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- The adapters that plugged into the car cassette deck to allow you to listen to your CD's playing on your portable CD player
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I was using one of those up until 2000. I didn't get my first in-car CD player until I bought my first new car that year.
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Non-cell, non-email LCD based PDA's. (Palm, Casio Wizard...etc)
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I had one of those up until two years ago. Now I have an HP iPaq, and I hardly use the POS. The Palm was much stabler and I could go a whole weekend on a battery charge. Now, I can go 30 minutes.
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- Dolby Digital (non 5.1) "surround sound"
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Still have it. Haven't bought a new receiver in ten years...