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Join us in the stereo thread: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3021252 I regularly pick up amps, CD players, turntables and stuff for $5-$10 at flea markets and sell it on for lots more after I tire of it and want something new.
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Yes, come join us. Jooooin uuuuss 
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thathonkey posted:Haha that's awesome I had to hide her posts on FB cos she's worse than a teenager with the likes and shares. Not to mention her constant spam of 30+ years of embarrassing photos she tags me in. But bless her for being up with tech. There are exceptions though. I think I mentioned this one in the thread a long time ago: Grandma called me saying she had scored a computer and wanted to get it going but there was no display after powering on. I defaulted to: "Do you have a separate tower or just keyboard and screen?" (trying to see if she had a desktop or laptop with her saying 'yes its on the desk" or "no it's on my lap") Queue 30 minutes of over the phone tech support where I'm tearing my hair out and secretly cracking beers to figure it out. Turns out her big score was literally a monitor and keyboard.
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I had to put my aunt on a list where she can't see my posts because I didn't want to outright block her. She has to comment on everything. Nine times out of ten it's her complaining that she doesn't understand what I posted or I may have used the word "old" at some point and she's mad because I used that word and she's old and I shouldn't make fun of old people. I'd join a stereo thread but I'm worried everyone would just make fun of me for my ghetto rig and really this is as much as I'm going to buy because I'm a poor and this sounds good enough.
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thathonkey posted:all my good audio equipment was inherited and it's all loving awesome compared to what you can get today (all purchased roughly 75-'90). I bought one thing myself, a Kenwood amp in the early 00s, that i thought was pretty crap at the time but is still in service in my home. It sounds good compared to modern stuff at the same price point but sadly i lost the remote which is the only modern feature to differentiate it from my old silver faces. If you have a phone with an IR transceiver you can probably use it on your stereo. I have a kenwood that isn't exactly new and use my LG G3 as a remote for it when i cant be bothered to find the real one
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Did someone say "ghetto rig"? $7.50 receiver, $30 speakers, ~$20 in spices and cocoa powder. Everyone should have a stereo in every room of their apartment. I'm still missing one in the bathroom, I'm still looking for some affordable waterproof speakers with decent sound quality. KozmoNaut has a new favorite as of 17:02 on Oct 13, 2016 |
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Oct 13, 2016 17:00
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lol my mom had that receiver when i was a kid
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Oct 13, 2016 17:02
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It's a heap of cheap 80s junk, but it works and gets good reception. 2x25 watts, according to the spec sheet, anyway. Probably more like 2x15. KozmoNaut has a new favorite as of 17:05 on Oct 13, 2016 |
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Oct 13, 2016 17:03
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We recently did a big move to another province for work reasons. A couple of nights before heading out we had a bit too much to drink as part of a farewell celebration and my girlfriend got really excited about certain things we should "PACK NOW BECAUSE WE MIGHT FORGET IT!" While unpacking a few things the other day I found one of those items that were was very important we take with us: It has a clip of Backstreet Boys' Shape of My Heart in it and still works! Humphreys posted:We were chatting about Meatloaf a few months ago, and I finally bought Bat out of Hell and told her about his new album. She bought the new one and I got a txt that simply said "It's poo poo". Good old grandma. My ex girlfriend's grandma was Pentecostal as gently caress and when she found a Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell tape in her grandkid's house she threw it away just because it mentioned Hell (twice!) and also had demonic and biker culture related imagery. Honestly I can't believe anyone could look at that album cover and not think it is the loving raddest thing ever created by an artist.
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Oct 13, 2016 19:14
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Mak0rz posted:
That's standard American evangelical stuff. My father-in-law used to change the pre-programmed radio stations in his kids' cars to Christian stations. Not just once, either: he'd do it every single time he was in the car.
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Oct 13, 2016 22:09
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KozmoNaut posted:It's a heap of cheap 80s junk, but it works and gets good reception. Now a days even the shittiest stuff made in the 80s and 90s seems better than what you can buy new 
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And back then of course everyone always talked about how much worse made everything was than back in the 50s.
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Data Graham posted:And back then of course everyone always talked about how much worse made everything was than back in the 50s. clearly the solution here is to grab a car from the 80s and use it to travel back to the 50s
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Data Graham posted:And back then of course everyone always talked about how much worse made everything was than back in the 50s. I've hosed around with a radio from the 50s and that tube-bearing bastard would be happy to kill you because 50% of the time you'll end up plugging it in such that the metal interior chassis is hot. Hail glorious Nippon and their 80s stereo equipment.
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Oct 14, 2016 02:09
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I just found this old adding machine in our warehouse. I figured some of you might find it interesting. Cross posted from the out of date technology thread, I was told you might find it interesting too
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Oct 14, 2016 11:04
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can you explain a bit about it like what it was used for or the strange duplicated key arrangement
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Oct 14, 2016 11:07
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thathonkey posted:can you explain a bit about it like what it was used for or the strange duplicated key arrangement Which keys are duplicated? (  )
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Oct 14, 2016 11:47
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thathonkey posted:can you explain a bit about it like what it was used for or the strange duplicated key arrangement It would have been used for accounting but I honestly have no idea how it works. I found it while looking for some tools out in our shop, it was just sitting on a shelf. I might see if I can clean it up a bit today, and possibly kill myself when I plug it in.
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Oct 14, 2016 12:11
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Jerry Cotton posted:Which keys are duplicated? ( drat i almost edited it but i did not think anyone would be bold enough to call me on such pedantry
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Oct 14, 2016 12:13
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Anyway it looks like an 8-digit adding machine so you could add (or substract, code:punch in code:e: of course the decimal point is just imaginary so you could do exactly the same thing to calculate 66677 + 4915 ee: You can definitely multiply on an adding machine since it's just iterating addition  I mean I've even used one as a kid I just wasn't thinking straight.
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Oct 14, 2016 12:31
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And that's also why it doesn't have any zeroes. To get a zero in a position you just don't press a number.
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Oct 14, 2016 13:03
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Adding up such small numbers seems like it would be faster on an abacus or even on paper. edit: by that I mean the instrument's full scale of numbers, not the example BattleMaster has a new favorite as of 14:31 on Oct 14, 2016 |
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Oct 14, 2016 14:28
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BattleMaster posted:Adding up such small numbers seems like it would be faster on an abacus or even on paper. Not when you add up loads of small numbers. (Well, abacus maybe but only if you're skilled.) e: For one thing you'd run out of paper real fast.
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Oct 14, 2016 14:30
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When you're using an adding machine, you're going through an account book and adding up a bunch of line items. Even if you keep the two decimal places, you can go up to almost a million that machine. Seems like that would handle almost any kind of business in the era that machine from.
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AFewBricksShy posted:I just found this old adding machine in our warehouse. I figured some of you might find it interesting. I'm imagining that + key is actually a pullcord. Don't ruin it by correcting me please. Edit: where's that other thread? Did we end up making duplicates after the GBS exodus?
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Mak0rz posted:I'm imagining that + key is actually a pullcord. Don't ruin it by correcting me please. The other: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3495621&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=426 And it's been going a while. Of COURSE i go in there and start random MP3 player derails too! I mentioned the poster to come here as I couldn't remember if it was this or that thread that had a poster that collects cool adding machines.
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TotalLossBrain posted:That's standard American evangelical stuff. My father-in-law used to change the pre-programmed radio stations in his kids' cars to Christian stations. Not just once, either: he'd do it every single time he was in the car. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3BDY3tfs8M
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Humphreys posted:I mentioned the poster to come here as I couldn't remember if it was this or that thread that had a poster that collects cool adding machines. Maybe that was me? I collect old calculators like this. I'll post some of the stuff I put in the other thread in case anyone is interested. Spy_Guy posted:I am a bit of a sucker when it comes to old mechanical calculators. Here is my latest acquisition: Other neat things I have is a Curta Type I mechanical pocket calculator, seen below:  It was the tool of an executive going from meeting to meeting and needing some convenient way of crunching numbers. Although, the chief use of it was actually for Formula 1 pit crews that had to calculate fuel weights and whatever other things Formula 1 pit crews calculate. I think it also had the most boisterous slogan of them all: "For people who count!" Next up we come to my current desktop calculator. The Hamann Manus R. One of, if not the only calculator in its style that had automatic division, an otherwise tremendously cumbersome operation. Got it for cheap, at the expense of some other fellow's lungs and a fair bit of cleaning to do. Spy_Guy posted:Calculator update. I got myself one of those magnifying glass lamp thingies and got to work cleaning up the Hamann Manus R. The most recent purchase I made was the Monroe "MonroMatic" 8N213. It's very similar to the Burroughs posted above, except it's capable of doing all four operations fully automatically (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division), plus it can even do automatic rounding of numbers. 
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Those buttons on the right remind me of the cash register that was at my parents store back in the 1970s. I loved using that thing. CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-WHIRRUNCH! CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-WHIRRRUNCH!
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I like the old mechanical cash registers. Click click click chaggachagga click click chaggachagga click click ka-chunk! *gets nutshot by the cash drawer*
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That cash register was the first piece of equipment to give me a shock. 
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Dick Trauma posted:That cash register was the first piece of equipment to give me a shock. my dad liked to hold 9v batteries to my tongue when i was a kid
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Spy_Guy posted:Maybe that was me? I collect old calculators like this. I'll post some of the stuff I put in the other thread in case anyone is interested.
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Cojawfee posted:When you're using an adding machine, you're going through an account book and adding up a bunch of line items. Even if you keep the two decimal places, you can go up to almost a million that machine. Seems like that would handle almost any kind of business in the era that machine from. Yup, electro-mechanical adding machines were the work-horses of the business world right up until businesses had both IBM mainframes AND hand-held electronic calculators.
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A curta is my dream purchase.
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1000 dollars on ebay. I'll have to wait until I have some gently caress you money.
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I decided to check out a few old web 'memes' and I went down the deep end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE8WzYNRPNU This counts as a relic right?
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Humphreys posted:I decided to check out a few old web 'memes' and I went down the deep end: Jesus that was ten years ago? Not going to lie, I watched that entire posted video and still enjoyed it. Gary is just so loving happy while he's lip syncing this stupid rear end song.
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I'm just old enough to be alive for pocket calculators to became common, and where the old 80lb metal cash registers at stores are a hazy thing of memory . But those electromechanicals? Jesus poo poo that's some impressive engineering.
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