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Jerry Cotton posted:If you want to see a good review of Ghostbusters (by a goon), here you go: I don't, thanks.
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Class of 07. In elementary school we still had Apple IIs, slide projectors, and reel to reel projectors through the second grade. Went to a charter school for 3rd through 5th grade. Their thing was supposed to technological competency so we had Mac clones all over the place plus everyone got one to bring home, and 1st gen iMacs in the labs once those came out. Back in the public school system they had Macs in middle schools and Windows machines in high schools which I didn't get.
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We had apple IIs in out IT lab in my first year of junior high in 1997, but the next year they replaced them with brand new Compaqs running Windows 98. They were locked down but I used the old "use the open file dialogue as explorer" trick to open solitaire and the teacher accused me of hacking.
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A Pinball Wizard posted:the teacher accused me of hacking. im guessing this teacher was mainly qualified in what the home row position is
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Class of '12. Kindergarten/Grade 1 had Macs with either OS8 or OS9, which we used primarily to play Zoombinis and Kid Pix. We constantly used overhead projectors, and used VHS's. When I was in grade 4, I went to a school that had purchased iBooks (the white ones) that would be trollied to classes as needed; as well as eMacs for the computer labs. After that, all of the schools I went to used Windows XP and Windows 7 machines supplied by Dell. And DVD's were much more commonplace. Though it wasn't until Grade 7 before we stopped using overhead projectors at all; as the school I went to started using Smart Boards. And Since then projectors were commonplace. I didn't use a Mac again until grade 11, when the High School I attened used 2009 Macs as a part of a "Media Production" elective.
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umalt posted:Class of '12. Ah yeah How many of us does this trigger memories for? 
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Data Graham posted:Ah yeah Fuccccccccckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk. I've not seen one of these in over a decade.
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Dr. Quarex posted:Probably because it referred very specifically to emotion faces on Japanese feature phones initially, and obviously "emoji" sounds entirely reasonable in that context, but then for whatever reason was adopted by Apple(? maybe? somebody?). Probably because it was totally cool? The similarity to “emoticon” is complete coincidence. It comes from Japanese words for “picture” and “character”.
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Nov 6, 2016 02:28
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Only 90s kids will remember penis inspection day.
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Data Graham posted:Ah yeah I swear to god that I've seen that exact model at every single school I've been to that used overheads.
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Nov 6, 2016 02:30
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Data Graham posted:Ah yeah College professors still like to use these.
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All the ones I've ever seen have the hinged mirror that makes them look like a weird bird.
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Data Graham posted:Ah yeah Before class open the door on the side and stick a transparency on the bulb if you hate your teacher
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Data Graham posted:Ah yeah gently caress I can smell the heat on plastic slide in my mind even after 20 odd years. Those things were great hand warmers on cold winter days. 
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Carth Dookie posted:gently caress I can smell the heat on plastic slide in my mind even after 20 odd years. Those things were great hand warmers on cold winter days. I also miss the slide carousels.
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The pro teachers had transparency scrolls with little crank handles attached to the projectors and they'd just crank them along and hopefully reach the end as the semester drew to a close.
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Platystemon posted:The similarity to “emoticon” is complete coincidence. It comes from Japanese words for “picture” and “character”. Because of the similarity I defaulted to thinking it was some brand's special snowflake name for them for a long time.
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We still had overhead projectors when I graduated in 07. I'm sure they've got to be phased out by now. I was in a summer camp once where the lady who ran it used one as a cheap spotlight for a play. She was a teacher and just borrowed it.
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Jerry Cotton posted:All the ones I've ever seen have the hinged mirror that makes them look like a weird bird. That's one of the new style ones, ya youngin' Just about every kind of math I learned up through middle school was first demonstrated on an overhead projector. After that it was whiteboards in high school. (class of '96) One teacher I know had a calculator designed for an overhead projector that was translucent. I did have a teacher in the 6th or 7th grade who'd managed to program a little math game on the Commodore 64, probably in LOGO or something. He'd hook it up to a TV/VCR thing on one of those wheeled carts with a strap holding the TV on (just barely). Random math problems would appear on the screen as a wire-framed alien space ship chased a man running along the ground. Our job was to shout out the correct answer. If we got it wrong, dude got zapped. Enough wrong answers, he'd get turned into a pile of ash.
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Remember those transparent calculators that were put on the overhead projectors? http://www.flinnsci.com/store/Scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=17346
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At a friend's house tonight they busted this out of a closet:
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umalt posted:Class of '12. Hey class of '12 buddy  Elementary we had Dell desktops and laptops that would be carted around between classes, as well as routers in every (most?) classrooms. Felt like such a badass going onto the garishly orange cheatplanet.com website in class instead of playing Zoombinis. I never actually touched a Mac until animation class in high school, which had a bunch of all-in-one iMacs that were slow as balls and took ages to render anything.
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GutBomb posted:At a friend's house tonight they busted this out of a closet: whew, can we get a street address for this place so the rest of us can steer clear
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GutBomb posted:At a friend's house tonight they busted this out of a closet: Haha you're friends with an ouya owner
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Mak0rz posted:Haha you're friends with an ouya owner Dude was really excited about it too. I just met him tonight.
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GutBomb posted:Dude was really excited about it too. I just met him tonight. Well when you purposely bought a second controller (despite that it will work with Bluetooth and Xbox 360 pads, which are _far far_ better than the official ones) then I would not be surprised by that.
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GutBomb posted:At a friend's house tonight they busted this out of a closet: A lemon yellow floral ottoman?
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Data Graham posted:Ah yeah I built a video projector using one of those and a LCD flat panel display that I took apart. It worked great actually.
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Data Graham posted:Ah yeah The new models (Elmo Readers and Document Readers) are basically little digital cameras on arms with a signal switcher and AV outs. The nice ones have an SD or USB reader and a laser-point guide or LED toplight.
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Data Graham posted:How many of us does this trigger memories for? Fun fact: The fresnel lenses in those are neato, and you can pop them out and burn poo poo.
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I was at a thrift store the other day and they had this big gray slab with a transparent LCD screen in the middle that hooked to a VGA port so you could show your computer screen on an overhead projector.
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Data Graham posted:Ah yeah I used to work at Kinko's (pre-fedex) and the amount of idiot teachers coming in to make copies onto transparencies while breaking the machines was the only part that really got to me about that job. Also when you walked into a classroom and saw that or the TV/VCR cart you knew it was going to be a good day.
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Frozen Pizza Party posted:I used to work at Kinko's (pre-fedex) and the amount of idiot teachers coming in to make copies onto transparencies while breaking the machines was the only part that really got to me about that job. Also when you walked into a classroom and saw that or the TV/VCR cart you knew it was going to be a good day. At my school, if the teacher told us "Don't take your books out, we are going to CA1" It meant we are watching a movie. Similarly classes completely unrelated to sports that ended up in the basketball hall or the football fields were guaranteed to be fun. I took a week off school once for the sake of it. Got away with it with no repercussions with the old "mate got his first car and it keeps breaking down so I miss rollcall, also I spent lunch in the library watching Simpsons. Ask Mr. Teacher, he saw me" Too much fun though caused the squash courts to be literally demolished after our game of 'bashball' turned into someone being thrown through the glass. 
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GutBomb posted:At a friend's house tonight they busted this out of a closet: Shiiiiiiiiiiiit. I have an Onlive box lying around here, somewhere, and I'm stil LOLin' at that poo poo.
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Clitch posted:Shiiiiiiiiiiiit. I have an Onlive box lying around here, somewhere, and I'm stil LOLin' at that poo poo. I wanted to believe in the Ouya. drat I dodged a bullet there.
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Humphreys posted:At my school, if the teacher told us "Don't take your books out, we are going to CA1" It meant we are watching a movie. Similarly classes completely unrelated to sports that ended up in the basketball hall or the football fields were guaranteed to be fun. Haha crazy tech relics
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Humphreys posted:Remember those transparent calculators that were put on the overhead projectors? They had to teach people how to use calculators? 
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Dick Trauma posted:They had to teach people how to use calculators? Wait till you hear about writing class.
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Dick Trauma posted:They had to teach people how to use calculators? Well when everyone moved from sliderules...
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GutBomb posted:At a friend's house tonight they busted this out of a closet: Hasn't anyone made custom ROMS for these or something so you can sideload your emulators and game APKs and the Google Play store, and connect a bluetooth controller of your choice? lovely controllers aside, I believe the hardware was just fine as an Android device, it was the business management and lack of third party support that made it a disaster.
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