Creative Nomad

You probably had a Creative Labs card and maybe even a Creative Labs set of desktop speakers.

They created the Creative Nomad jukebox.

The first Nomads non-jukebox were like the Diamond Rio, a little bit of flash memory and a slow USB connection, but they saw the appeal.

of taking your larger music library with you and so creative created the nomad jukebox which looked like a big portable cd player and had a real spinning six gigabyte hard drive so you could very slowly via usb one fill it up with loads of music and then choose what to play through a hierarchical interface That sounds a little familiar.

Nine months later, Apple built the smaller version itself and called it the iPod.

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