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Mondian posted:*Every sci-fi production since at least the 70's. They riff on it in Airplane II with Shatner, so it was already a joke by 1982. You can actually rent this prop from its maker for a week for $775. I've been tempted, let me tell you. Of course, you have to provide your own truck, crew, padding, etc. to pick the stuff up from their warehouse in Hollywood or they won't let you have it. (The Modern Props website in general is full of things you've seen a million times in one flick after another. Check under the "fabricated electronics" section in particular for sci-fi stuff.) tacodaemon has a new favorite as of 05:23 on Dec 8, 2016 |
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Techmoan reviews a programmable turntable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgAUxJmh5uE
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I love his love of old school hip hop.
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Mister Kingdom posted:Techmoan reviews a programmable turntable. Techmoan really is the spirit animal of this thread.
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The Ape of Naples posted:I love his love of old school hip hop. Get this: he's old!
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Jerry Cotton posted:Get this: he's old! I know but when you hear a British guy acting a little nerdy and obsessing over a lot of audio gear you'd kind of expect him to play a jazz record. Or maybe Peter Gabriel.
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The Ape of Naples posted:I know but when you hear a British guy acting a little nerdy and obsessing over a lot of audio gear you'd kind of expect him to play a jazz record. Or maybe Peter Gabriel. Probably the Beatles would be a safer bet.
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GRINDCORE MEGGIDO posted:Probably the Beatles would be a safer bet. Yeah but: he's not that old. My point was old-school hip-hop is to now what loving Bill Haley was to when I were a lad.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Yeah but: he's not that old. My point was old-school hip-hop is to now what loving Bill Haley was to when I were a lad. I love when you hear music being played in grocery stores that when it came out was going to cause the death of the Republic. Madonna's "Like A Prayer" comes to mind.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Yeah but: he's not that old. My point was old-school hip-hop is to now what loving Bill Haley was to when I were a lad. Oh I know, I'm old too. It's more the rap thing than anything. But I love it because it was stuff I was into when I was 12 or so.
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GRINDCORE MEGGIDO posted:Probably the Beatles would be a safer bet. The Beatles' stereo albums have that weird early stereo thing where they have the drums on panned to one channel, the vocals to the other and the guitar in the middle. Sounds terrible on headphones.
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Yeah the mono mix remasters are way better.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Get this: he's old! It's more that he's literally the whitest dude ever.
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Phanatic posted:I love when you hear music being played in grocery stores that when it came out was going to cause the death of the Republic. Madonna's "Like A Prayer" comes to mind. If you released the video with some other song as new in the USA today, millions of people would be outraged.
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axolotl farmer posted:The Beatles' stereo albums have that weird early stereo thing where they have the drums on panned to one channel, the vocals to the other and the guitar in the middle. I remember this happening in an old pub I used to visit. They had a few old Stones songs on the jukebox and on a few of them you could only hear the drums in the lounge area because the speakers were wired in stereo but with the left and right channels in different rooms.
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axolotl farmer posted:The Beatles' stereo albums have that weird early stereo thing where they have the drums on panned to one channel, the vocals to the other and the guitar in the middle. The Ramones aped this technique for their first record and yeah, it sounds bad on headphones or - god forbid - a single speaker.
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The 8-bit Guy has a new video on disk-based digital still cameras, including a very rare model that's doubly obsolete and failed for using the LS120 SuperDisk format: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J0Aw2Z-8-k Also, on a similar theme, EEVBlog tore down a very interesting analog video still camera last month: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H9xmJ9-7q0 Mr.Radar has a new favorite as of 21:27 on Dec 11, 2016 |
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Shame USB thumb drives took off before someone could use the form factor of 3.5" floppies to make slot-able memory cards. poo poo, just think about how much memory you could get in that volume nowadays.
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ryonguy posted:Shame USB thumb drives took off before someone could use the form factor of 3.5" floppies to make slot-able memory cards. poo poo, just think about how much memory you could get in that volume nowadays. Lots, but it doesn’t matter because you couldn’t afford that many flash chips.
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ryonguy posted:Shame USB thumb drives took off before someone could use the form factor of 3.5" floppies to make slot-able memory cards. poo poo, just think about how much memory you could get in that volume nowadays. What do you think CF was/is?
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I thought the advantage of CompactFlash was that it seamlessly replaced/emulated hard drives on legacy machines without needing drivers, just using a dumb adapter.
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DoctorWhat posted:I thought the advantage of CompactFlash was that it seamlessly replaced/emulated hard drives on legacy machines without needing drivers, just using a dumb adapter. Indeed, much like PCMCIA it is remarkably similar to IDE, and hence compatible in both directions - handy for replacing iPod hard drives with CF cards, but I'm not so sure that IBM microdrive CF sized hard disks are that useful anymore... Has anyone suggested those as amazing but obsolete in the approx 400 pages I skipped after reading the start of the thread? 
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legooolas posted:Indeed, much like PCMCIA it is remarkably similar to IDE, and hence compatible in both directions - handy for replacing iPod hard drives with CF cards, but I'm not so sure that IBM microdrive CF sized hard disks are that useful anymore... Has anyone suggested those as amazing but obsolete in the approx 400 pages I skipped after reading the start of the thread? I use a 1GB CF with a hacked driver in my Newton 2100
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DoctorWhat posted:I thought the advantage of CompactFlash was that it seamlessly replaced/emulated hard drives on legacy machines without needing drivers, just using a dumb adapter. Yeah, it's a common upgrade for Amiga 1200 owners to replace the factory standard IDE hard drive with an 8GB CompactFlash card.
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ryonguy posted:Shame USB thumb drives took off before someone could use the form factor of 3.5" floppies to make slot-able memory cards. poo poo, just think about how much memory you could get in that volume nowadays. The video actually features a floppy drive adapter for MemoryStick cards, though unfortunately it isn't demonstrated because he didn't have any computers which had both an internal floppy drive and the correct OS for the only driver he could find for it.
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I was in a cellphone repair place and they had a neat displace case full of obsolete phones.       
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axolotl farmer posted:The Beatles' stereo albums have that weird early stereo thing where they have the drums on panned to one channel, the vocals to the other and the guitar in the middle. The Grateful Dead's "Truckin" constantly pans the friggin guitar track back and forth, twice a measure IIRC, and it sounds really disorienting on headphones. And you know someone at the mixer thought they were being super clever when they pulled that stunt.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I use a ... Newton  That's some commitment to obsolete and failed technology right there!
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my turn in the barrel posted:I was in a cellphone repair place and they had a neat displace case full of obsolete phones. this is a general slice of what our phone bin at work looks like; it fills up biweekly and is sent off
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Mr.Radar posted:The 8-bit Guy has a new video on disk-based digital still cameras, including a very rare model that's doubly obsolete and failed for using the LS120 SuperDisk format: My oldest digital photos were taken with one of them! June 1999. We borrowed the camera from work to take photos of stuff for insurance purposes (I guess to save money on film?). Then apparently I borrowed it again two months later to take a photograph of our cat. 3 1/2" floppy discs were cool. Found this while looking at the old insurance photos: a failed portable computing offshoot marketed as a "desknote". (2006 photo, long after the Mavica, but bought in 2003.)  Welcome to the Acer Aspire 1703SC! It has a 17" SXGA screen, 80GB HDD, CD and floppy drives, and every port you could need, even S-Video-out. It's also more than 2 inches thick at the hinge, weighs 15.6 pounds and has a battery life of 1.5 seconds. (That is, it didn't come with a battery at all; I can't remember if it was even an option.) I can see why they didn't pan out, but it worked well for us - we never moved it anyway and my father basically cheated the system by getting it through a workplace discount scheme that only applied to laptops.
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my turn in the barrel posted:I was in a cellphone repair place and they had a neat displace case full of obsolete phones. Unrealistic, Nokia 5110 in a place where they fix broken phones.
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Der Kyhe posted:Unrealistic, Nokia 5110 in a place where they fix broken phones. The 5110 broke one of the other phones. It’s there as a trophy, like when auto shops display the most interesting things they’ve pulled from tyres.
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You know those photos of a hunter, in front of a felled animal? That's what the 5110 is doing there.
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My friend actually had the second phone from the right on the top in that photo. Imagine putting the world's shittiest phone in the form factor of a really thick iPod Mini. The thing was about an inch across and two inches wide.
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Movies in the future set in pre-2007 will always get the cell phones wrong.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Movies in the future set in pre-2007 will always get the cell phones wrong. I don't think any single device has caused as much damage to the believability of the majority of science-fiction as the smartphone has.
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galagazombie posted:I don't think any single device has caused as much damage to the believability of the majority of science-fiction as the smartphone has. I'm saying, it'll be the 2040's and I'll be in my 50's or 60's watching a period piece set in '98, and everybody will have iphones and I'll be getting all steamed. Or watching a movie set in 2012 where someone talks about their cool Motorola RAZR. It will be a real "shut up, Grandpa" moment.
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The (lovely) "Tom Clancy's" Net Force movie was a thing of magic when I was younger - so the phone is the wallet and the video camera and you can VIDEO CALL? WOWZERS! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X70gkbI7mHI
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Movies in the future set in pre-2007 will always get the cell phones wrong. 
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