Soulmate

Oh, to think how excited I was about this.

I can't remember who first put me on to this little device, which loaded songs from a CD onto a portable device as digital files. Obviously I asked for the name of the company that made them and I was told that they were probably out of stock by now and I might have to wait for a while.

However, when I rang they said they had a few units left. I think they were about £150 each and I rang two of my music loving pals to see if they also wanted to buy one of these revolutionary little devices, which they did. The company that made them was just outside Edinburgh where, happily, I was working at the time, so I drove out to pick them up.

If memory serves correctly, you could only fit about a CD's worth of songs onto the little soulmate device although maybe you could store more on the main machine. Once the excitement and novelty wore off, it wasn't that great a device. Maybe Digmedia might have had more luck and success with subsequent models but soon after, maybe even later that year, Apple released the iPod. Bad luck, Digmedia :-(