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Still plenty of pay toilets in Germany, especially on the highways. Sometimes they even give you vouchers for using one!
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Chikimiki posted:Still plenty of pay toilets in Germany, especially on the highways. Sometimes they even give you vouchers for using one! "Ist... ist das normal?" "NEIN! IST SUPER!"
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Feb 15, 2018 20:11
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h-u20eMwlw
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Feb 24, 2018 07:55
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Shamelessly stolen from IRC, this is pretty badass: https://imgur.com/a/NVPZI
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Feb 26, 2018 16:11
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Skoll posted:Shamelessly stolen from IRC, this is pretty badass: I legit miss my family's IBM Aptiva.
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Feb 26, 2018 16:14
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Well that's thoroughly insane. Not often you see welding come up in this sort of thread.
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Feb 26, 2018 16:24
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I miss our old Packard Bell Legend.
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Feb 26, 2018 16:25
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Dude's got both a legitimately impressive set of technical skills and a bonkers mind.
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Feb 26, 2018 16:59
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Skoll posted:I miss our old Packard Bell Legend. Did it have navigator?
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Feb 26, 2018 19:15
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oldpainless posted:Did it have navigator? http://pbclub.pwcsite.com/wiki/index.php?title=Legend_822CDT It did but we used AOL at the time.
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Feb 26, 2018 19:17
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Skoll posted:http://pbclub.pwcsite.com/wiki/index.php?title=Legend_822CDT
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Feb 26, 2018 19:47
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Oh, I just looked it up. I don't remember that at all honestly. If it was on our PC, we never used it. My main memories of it are dial up internet,AOL, IRC chat, Microsoft chat, and 90s games like the X-Wing / TIE Fighter series, Mechwarrior 2, Doom, etc. When we got that computer, when it was new, I probably would have been around 7 or 8 years old and it was our first family PC. Kept it until about 2001.
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Feb 26, 2018 19:51
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I NEED THIS FLOPPY DRIVE THINGY SO BAD
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Feb 26, 2018 22:12
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Is this a drive you can buy somewhere? Did he hack it together? I don't imagine it would be too hard, but ensuring contact to the SD pads might be challenging. Edit: Found it. It's hacked together.
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Feb 27, 2018 07:26
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Skoll posted:Shamelessly stolen from IRC, this is pretty badass: That floppy SD drive is pretty impressive.
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Feb 27, 2018 08:29
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Man, remember how much early viruses sucked? I haven't seen anything that required so much as a full format in years. 
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Feb 27, 2018 11:23
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Was that really a thing or was it just made up to scare people away from piracy?
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Feb 27, 2018 11:25
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Grand Prize Winner posted:Was that really a thing or was it just made up to scare people away from piracy? Tiny charges implanted in the case. Remember the mass suing? The MPAA used to be way more hardcore before they were forced to temper their methods.
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Feb 27, 2018 11:28
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A few later VHS cassettes had some primitive copy protection. I couldn't copy the Crow when I rented it when it was new. It would come out all scrambled and poo poo.
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Feb 27, 2018 12:22
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Did you guys have that dad in your neighborhood who got obsessed with owning all the movies and their shelves would be filled with vcr's with handwritten labels identifying the two or three films crammed onto each one?
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Feb 27, 2018 12:33
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Randaconda posted:A few later VHS cassettes had some primitive copy protection. I couldn't copy the Crow when I rented it when it was new. It would come out all scrambled and poo poo. Macrovision: quote:Although Macrovision video copy protection has existed for nearly 15 years, it wasn't until the recent acceptance of DVD in mainstream consumer markets that its existence was felt at all.
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Feb 27, 2018 13:35
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One time in about 2003, I got a VHS in the mail. It was an advertising company and they wanted me to watch a very bad sitcom called "Dads," to review a very specific ad. The message told me that it was a special tape that would erase itself after you played it. The magical technology that did this was a magnet taped to the area where the played tape spooled up, I of course took it off before playing. The ad itself was an animatic, and I thought it sucked and was very open about telling them that when I called them to finish my task and get $20 in the mail. About 2 months later I saw the live action version of it on TV 
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jojoinnit posted:Did you guys have that dad in your neighborhood who got obsessed with owning all the movies and their shelves would be filled with vcr's with handwritten labels identifying the two or three films crammed onto each one? Yeah I knew this dad. Had a 90s big TV in the basement flanked by hundreds of copied tapes. It was pretty rad actually but his family kinda sucked. Light Gun Man has a new favorite as of 14:00 on Feb 27, 2018 |
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Feb 27, 2018 13:40
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My dad had videoed all of Star Trek for some reason, he wasn't like a convention going nerd type at all, preparing me well for the piracy and binge watching that immediately came about when i got my first cable modem
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Feb 27, 2018 14:05
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My parents had a bunch of stuff taped off HBO. That's how I saw Raiders of the Lost Ark and Back to the Future for the first time.
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Feb 27, 2018 15:34
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My dad taped all the old Finnish movies on TV and then when he died we threw them all away because there are only like eight watchable (old) Finnish movies in existence and they're all available on DVD.
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Feb 27, 2018 15:48
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I sorta miss having old tapes of movies recorded off TV, it was always fun to watch ancient commercials. Of course now you can find big blocks of them on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1qunjZbhZI
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Feb 27, 2018 15:52
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I often just sit down and watch 80s commercials at night.
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Feb 27, 2018 16:06
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Honey Bunches of Oats?! Mom won't mind!
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Feb 27, 2018 16:49
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Iron Crowned posted:I sorta miss having old tapes of movies recorded off TV, it was always fun to watch ancient commercials. You think it's going to be tapes of cool old TV, but what you actually get is: - 10 minutes of whatever was on TV before the film because the clock on the VCR was wrong - A lovely 3am film that wasn't worth watching and cuts off 10 minutes before the end because of the above - 25 minutes of random TV because someone forgot to change the channel when setting the timer - A good film with the middle third missing because someone recorded a soap opera over it - The first half of a sitcom episode someone mistakenly though they could squeeze onto the end of the tape
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Feb 27, 2018 17:34
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Sweevo posted:You think it's going to be tapes of cool old TV, but what you actually get is: Not in my house. MY dad was a perfectionist and obsessed with punctuality, so all the clocks were less than 2 minutes off. We also knew drat well than to mess with the VCR after a timer had been set.
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Feb 27, 2018 17:43
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Did your dad also stop the recording during commercials?
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big crush on Chad OMG posted:Did your dad also stop the recording during commercials? No, but he did figure out you just had to hit pause to do that.
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Feb 27, 2018 18:13
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Iron Crowned posted:No, but he did figure out you just had to hit pause to do that. "Don't hit 'pause' it will stretch the tape!!"
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Iron Crowned posted:One time in about 2003, I got a VHS in the mail. It was an advertising company and they wanted me to watch a very bad sitcom called "Dads," to review a very specific ad. The message told me that it was a special tape that would erase itself after you played it. The magical technology that did this was a magnet taped to the area where the played tape spooled up, I of course took it off before playing. I must have been in the same focus group. Was the terrible sitcom featuring this guy? http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0273946/?ref_=tt_cl_t12 I don't remember the commercial, though it's possible they reused the same failed pilot to test multiple ads in multiple markets.
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Feb 27, 2018 19:52
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Jerry Cotton posted:"Don't hit 'pause' it will stretch the tape!!" ahahaha oh man I forgot this
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Feb 27, 2018 20:01
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I remember staying up really late to record grainy skin flicks on Cinemax or whatnot and hoping no one catches me.
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Skoll posted:I remember staying up really late to record grainy skin flicks on Cinemax or whatnot and hoping no one catches me. They all starred Shannon Tweed too
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Iron Crowned posted:I sorta miss having old tapes of movies recorded off TV, it was always fun to watch ancient commercials. Back in high school in the early 2000's a friend of mine found boxes and boxes of 80's/90's movies and shows on vhs that someone in his family had recorded over the years. The best part was that the commercials were all intact. During the summer we would smoke in the basement watching such hits like Sister Act or Red Heat and would try to guess which year the movie or show was recorded based off the commercials. It became competitive and eventually we started keeping score but the game couldn't work when we were watching awards shows like the 1990 American Music Awards, which we once watched in its entirety.
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