Creative Nomad

The Nomad was a range of digital audio players designed and sold by Creative Technology Limited, and later discontinued in 2004.

Most players use Texas Instruments TMS320DA25x ARM plus digital signal processor as their CPU and support some version of Creative's environmental audio extensions (EAX).

It beat Apple Computer's hard drive music player "iPod" to market by about a year.

Part of the reason for this was the inclusion of a FireWire connection, which is of comparable speed to USB 2.0.

[1] Future versions in the Creative ZEN line exclusively use Microsoft's Media Transfer Protocol (also known as PlaysForSure), and some legacy devices have been supplied with firmware upgrades to support MTP.

The Nomad II runs off one AA battery and uses SmartMedia memory cards.
The Nomad Jukebox runs on four AA batteries and has a 6 GB hard drive .
NOMAD Jukebox 2
NOMAD Jukebox Zen Xtra (60GB)
NOMAD Jukebox Zen players feature easily replaceable batteries