This reads like my life 10 years ago. Running BeOS with a zip drive sneaker net. Apple had the hot swappable bays much earlier than 2000, I remember using them as early as '98; compaq had the feature as well (floppy drive or LS120).
The one thing in that list that I'm sad to have missed was minidisc. It still sets off my nastolgia meter.
What about dial-up modems, IRQ settings, and serial ports?
I still have a (parallel port) Zip Drive, a minidisc recorder/player (and shoe box of minidiscs) and a graphing calculator cluttering up my study.
We used to use a minidisc recorder and a pair of PZMs to record all our rehersals - It then took about a week to rip and burn them onto CD, but a few good ideas were saved/salvedged in this way.
The one thing in that list that I'm sad to have missed was minidisc. It still sets off my nastolgia meter.
What about dial-up modems, IRQ settings, and serial ports?