I'm particularly interested in the forum members with older players back when this stuff was -really- obscure...
This thread http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53642 prompted me to think about when I first heard of Slim Devices. I probably heard of the Squeezebox from the AVS Forum. The main stumbling block for me was price and the fact that it was 802.11b with WEP. However I thought SlimServer was very cool, installed it and played with it. I guess I'm easily impressed, I thought it was very neat that it ran a remote web server that could be controlled over the network. At that time I started cleaning up my tags and ripping my CDs to FLAC. Eventually I uninstalled SlimServer as it wasn't doing anything for me and I almost forgot about Slim Devices. Fast-forward to October 2005 when (again through AVS Forums) I learned about the SB3. I went to the website where I discovered the remaining SB2s were on sale. The SB2 addressed the issues I had with the SB1 and seeing as it was on sale and money was better for me at the time, I dove in. I wrote a review article for a computer forum I was active in at the time, ABX Forum, but I posted it here first for comments. Sean Adams wondered why I was reviewing the SB2 and an older version of SS (6.0.2?) and sent me an SB3 for review. I was thinking of a use for 2 players at the time, so when the review period was over I ended up buying that SB3. The rest is history... So what are your stories? -- Mark Lanctot Current: SB2, Transporter, Boom (PQP3 - late beta) Stored: Boom (PQP1 - early beta), SBC (beta - no battery) Sold: SB3, Duet ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53831 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
