Mastodawn

I found my old iRiver MP3 player which came out in late 2003. It still boots a very old version of ROCKbox which is still an active project. The battery doesn’t seem to charge but I’m shocked the tiny little hard drive still works. I was thrilled to find some really old podcasts including The Tartan Podcast which featured Scottish musicians. There are very few archives of that show. Now I have a few more.

#vintagecomputing #rockbox #retrocomputing #mp3

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Moritz

Thanks to @moelassus for the inspiration.
After a bit of searching I found my #iriver H340 from 2004. It still works and also runs #rockbox
Did not manage to find out with which podcasts I started, but obviously I stopped using it in 2012.
Also there was an old scrobbler.log with my quite interesting listening history.
The HDD makes some funny noises, but is still readable. Back then I bought a HDD-CF card adapter but never managed to change it.
Somewhen™ I will check for SSD replacements.

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Moritz 6d ago

Thanks to #rockdoom it runs Doom and with #zxbox an ZX spectrum emulator. One of my favourite games a lot of decade^W years back was Manic Miner. Which runs fine on the MP3 player, of course.
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Moe Lassus 6d ago

@elgolfo ah, those were the days. 😊