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When I was a kid, in the mid-'80s, we had a console TV with an ultrasonic remote. Y'know how some people call a TV remote "the clicker"? It's because of those -- pushing the buttons would drop a hammer on a tuning fork inside, with an audible click. My favorite toy when I was a toddler was a bit of chain (I was an easily-amused child, and as you can tell from the TV, we weren't exactly rich), and sometimes when I jangled the chain it would change the TV channel.  Also one of my uncles used to be a TV repairman. The shop he worked for went out of business in the early '90s, when it got to the point that it didn't cost much more to buy a new, better TV than to have him fix the old one. Jerry Cotton posted:I had a mid-80s domestic (I'm thinking Finlux but maybe it was a Salora In other news, remember when laptops didn't have onboard wifi and had PCMCIA slots, and you used an 802.11b PC card? The hotel I'm at does.  They still have the same internet provider, amazingly, which is presumably why they haven't refreshed the ten-year-old signage.
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) sub-30"* CRT TV up until 2010 or something and boy howdy did switching over from the analogue tuner to an external digital tuner in 2007 change it from "TV with lovely picture" to "TV with great picture." Only reason I got an LCD was that a lot of Xbox 360 games on a smallish CRT through RGB had pretty much unreadable text.
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Delivery McGee posted:In other news, remember when laptops didn't have onboard wifi and had PCMCIA slots, and you used an 802.11b PC card? The hotel I'm at does. I have like 5 Orinoco cards floating around the house. They were awesome. I used one in an iPaq PDA that was booting Plan 9... I mounted a filesystem over the network and played music from it.
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Pham Nuwen posted:iPaq PDA that was booting Plan 9 Nerd!! 
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I've got a Newton 2100 with an Orinoco Silver in it. I snagged the card from a 1st gen Airport Base Station that fried its motherboard.
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Delivery McGee posted:When I was a kid, in the mid-'80s, we had a console TV with an ultrasonic remote. Y'know how some people call a TV remote "the clicker"? It's because of those -- pushing the buttons would drop a hammer on a tuning fork inside, with an audible click. My favorite toy when I was a toddler was a bit of chain (I was an easily-amused child, and as you can tell from the TV, we weren't exactly rich), and sometimes when I jangled the chain it would change the TV channel. I thought i was the best hacker ever when I got my laptop with the PCMCIA wifi card. Wireless networking was becoming a thing but no one had it yet. The University IT department was testing wifi routers all over campus and stupidly thought no one would know (because barely anything had wifi then - heck, most phones had EMS, not MMS at this time). Getting unrestricted network and internet access everywhere was the best thing. And of course "netsend * Hello" worked and broadcast to every drat system.
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Speaking of obsolete technology, I volunteer at a museum ship and I'm going to be spending the next few days cleaning the guts of an old navy teletype machine so I can plop them into one currently on display that had most of its keys stolen by tourists over the years.
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:Speaking of obsolete technology, I volunteer at a museum ship and I'm going to be spending the next few days cleaning the guts of an old navy teletype machine so I can plop them into one currently on display that had most of its keys stolen by tourists over the years. Have they thought about putting some kind of UV grease on the stuff people typical are stealing and setting up an UV light at the exit? If you put it on the backside of things, the grease won't collect much dust and people won't get marked just touching it normally.
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Lurking Haro posted:Have they thought about putting some kind of UV grease on the stuff people typical are stealing and setting up an UV light at the exit? Inb4 boss tells them to put UV grease on everything, now they go to a party and light up like a light.
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drgnwr1 posted:Inb4 boss tells them to put UV grease on everything, now they go to a party and light up like a light. Just use different colors, so it won't look like a recent murder.
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Lurking Haro posted:Just use different colors, so it won't look like a recent murder. And if it is a rave, would fit in, maybe even become the life of the party.
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this was on the imgur front page
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axolotl farmer posted:this was on the imgur front page It's missing all the vinyl shavings these things made as they destroyed your LPs.
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axolotl farmer posted:this was on the imgur front page Love the design. Looks like it should be sitting on a desk in a Mass Effect game.
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axolotl farmer posted:this was on the imgur front page imgur has a front page?
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axolotl farmer posted:this was on the imgur front page I think some other forum out there is having a discussion about records too.
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How dare they.
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GreenNight posted:How dare they. There can only be one. Shun the non-believers, SHUN.
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axolotl farmer posted:this was on the imgur front page The new Sony Linear Tracking LT79 Pro not compatible with non-Sony media
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Pfft, if you're going to destroy records at least do it with style
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blugu64 posted:Pfft, if you're going to destroy records at least do it with style I must have one of these. http://www.soundwagon.jp/
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Humphreys posted:I must have one of these. "Buy now! Only $99" Maybe for $10 I'd think about it. The website belongs on this thread too.
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Found this piece of junk, amongst many other old devices, when I cleaned out the house I just bought: The Super GSM Reader. Wow! Take the SIM card out of your phone, put it in this device, connect it to your PC via serial cable, start a (probably terrible) PC application, write an SMS there, save it on the SIM card, put the SIM card back in your phone, and it is now ready to be sent!
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It even comes with one of those terrible cd-roms that will wreck your poo poo if it's slot loading.
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Pilsner posted:Found this piece of junk, amongst many other old devices, when I cleaned out the house I just bought: It was marginally useful for extracting the contacts. But yeah, unsigned USB drivers, a terrible application in engrish, but for $1 shipped on Ebay, what do you expect?
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Back in the olde Nokia days it was a bit of a thing to get your operator logo changed into a fancy graphic or as phones got more advanced, edit the little animated hands you got when you turned your phone on. Usually via some suspect site. Or if you didn't want that, you could make your own.   And transfer it with one of these:  That's a PS/2 port - it also came in Serial.
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Pilsner posted:Found this piece of junk, amongst many other old devices, when I cleaned out the house I just bought: This gadget would be useful if you could write whatever you want onto the simcard.
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blugu64 posted:Pfft, if you're going to destroy records at least do it with style This is how you destroy records: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1CP1751wJA And have sort of a riot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco_Demolition_Night
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WebDog posted:Back in the olde Nokia days it was a bit of a thing to get your operator logo changed into a fancy graphic or as phones got more advanced, edit the little animated hands you got when you turned your phone on. Oh my god this post takes me back. I used to try to get this to work with my old 5190 and 6190 Nokias, I think I may've done it, it's been like 15 years though.
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Dick Trauma posted:This is how you destroy records: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1CP1751wJA I've pretty much lived around Chicago my whole life and I was 10 when this happened. I remember my dad laughing his rear end off about this whole thing and the local sports news guys losing their collective minds about this. It was the best thing ever. The quote from Wikipedia sums it up quite well. quote:To this day Disco Demolition Night stands in infamy as one of the most ill-advised promotions of all-time, but arguably one of the most successful as 30 years later we're all still talking about it.
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flosofl posted:I've pretty much lived around Chicago my whole life and I was 10 when this happened. I remember my dad laughing his rear end off about this whole thing and the local sports news guys losing their collective minds about this. It was the best thing ever. Do terrible MLB uniforms count as technology?  EDIT: Holy poo poo  
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Dick Trauma posted:Do terrible MLB uniforms count as technology? I completely forgot about those. I remember my Grandfather bitching about how lovely these looked when I was growing up: 
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VHS tapes had the best and the weirdest poo poo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt_T5EF-uzU
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Code Jockey posted:Oh my god this post takes me back. I used to try to get this to work with my old 5190 and 6190 Nokias, I think I may've done it, it's been like 15 years though. I am pretty sure I still have a zip with all these logos on my current computer. Probably stored in the 'important docs' folder.
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Number 16 makes me feel all  I recently dug up an old cell phone and charged it to see if it would still work, and it still does. The fact the screen would not turn off weirded me out for a moment though. Old cell phones were pretty limited and crappy, e.g. having only enough memory for a handful of text messages, and needing to delete old ones to let new ones arrive. But the battery life was excellent, I kinda miss that.
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flosofl posted:I completely forgot about those. I feel like I'm back in Tomorrowland in the 90s.
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the world's largest dry-erase "encyclopedia" posted:one of the most successful as 30 years later we're all still talking about it. 
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WebDog posted:Back in the olde Nokia days it was a bit of a thing to get your operator logo changed into a fancy graphic or as phones got more advanced, edit the little animated hands you got when you turned your phone on. I had that adapter for my Motorola Dataport. It let me use it as a cellular modem for my laptop.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I had that adapter for my Motorola Dataport. It let me use it as a cellular modem for my laptop. I could do that through the IR port on my laptop or Palm handheld! A wondrous era that was.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I had that adapter for my Motorola Dataport. It let me use it as a cellular modem for my laptop. There was a minor cottage industry with those back in the day. Every cell phone had a different connector so you had to get a new cable to install your own ringtones and whatnot.
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