|
I got the silver version of the F-91W and it's great because I have lil wrists and like to know what time it is it's been my only wristwatch for like ten years, best twenty bucks or so I've spent on an accessory in a while
|
#
?
Mar 28, 2019 06:17
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 24, 2024 05:28 |
|
|
Peanut Butler posted:I got the silver version of the F-91W and it's great because I have lil wrists and like to know what time it is casio babywrist crew 
|
|
#
?
Mar 28, 2019 06:23
|
|
|
I've had a Casio G-Shock DW9052 since like 2007-2008 and it's still trucking along, though the body is a bit nicked and worn by now. A great deal for the $40 I paid for it.
|
|
#
?
Mar 28, 2019 08:15
|
|
|
I have some Casio Baby-G g-shock. I like it.
|
|
#
?
Mar 28, 2019 09:34
|
|
|
Krispy Wafer posted:They're not too obsolete. I have a near 50 year old Bulova that I was able to get serviced at the mall. If you can still get stuff fixed at the mall then it's not yet obsolete. That's why i don't like a lot of smartwatches. I want them to look nice but bland so that i can switch around watchfaces whenever i feel like it and don't need to worry about them matching the golden crystal encrusted casing. Switching the watchface pretty much replaced my need to switch watches.
|
|
#
?
Mar 28, 2019 09:52
|
|
|
I can't remember what model my G-Shock Co-Pilot is but it's old enough that a client who happens to like them made a point of mentioning it's a classic and wanted to have a better look.
|
|
#
?
Mar 28, 2019 11:07
|
|
|
Maybe not obsolete, but possibly failed: I wear a Nixon Mission every day. People look less angrily at you if you're in a meeting and look at your watch than if you pull out your phone, and quick text-message/email check is really easy on it.
|
|
#
?
Mar 28, 2019 12:02
|
|
|
bad posts ahead!!! posted:casio babywrist crew aww yeah like 80% of men's watches from 1990-2010 seem to be giant tacticool carbuncles that words like 'elegant' or 'cute' disintegrate on contact with- a heftier boy can pull them off but they look like dystopian child tracking shackles on me. Felt like it was that or a too-femmy watch so when I got a Kyocera candybar I stopped wearing watches until this guy was on sale somewhere:  turns out they have a whole line of these, with different colors and one with an inverted display and crap I wanna buy a bunch of the same watch now
|
|
#
?
Mar 28, 2019 14:00
|
|
|
twistedmentat posted:If you like LGR, check out PushingUpRoses. She focuses more on adventure games and her channel is becoming more of a general 90s nostalgia channel but it's still great. Her video on Pete and Pete was great. I can't wear a smartwatch inside the prison, so I have several "old fashioned" watches. The men try to guess which watch I will be wearing each Saturday.
|
|
#
?
Mar 28, 2019 18:18
|
|
|
Pretty sure I had that exact watch in the 1980s. Pretty sure everyone else had one too.
|
|
#
?
Mar 29, 2019 12:03
|
|
|
I love my F-91W. I have the gold plastic version. I had a smart watch for a while, and much like an RC car, it's fun for a few weeks, but after a while it's just a watch that you barely use more than checking the time. This watch does exactly that for half the cost, and I don't have to flick my wrist for the display to come on, or charge it every night.
|
|
#
?
Mar 29, 2019 12:57
|
|
|
I had a Garmin smartwatch that I wore for a couple of years and was reasonably happy with. It required charging only fortnightly. The most useful thing it did was I could look at who was calling without pulling out my phone. If I happened to be wearing ear buds, I could pick up the call with the phone still in my pocket. One might imagine the watch would be handy for displaying text message, but most of those either needed responses or had media the watch couldn’t display. I went back to dumb watches because I decided I just wasn’t getting enough out of the smart features and wanted something else on my wrist for a change.
|
|
#
?
Mar 29, 2019 13:39
|
|
|
I was considering buying this recently, But I waited too long and the decision got made for me. Oh well. Some other time, Kiki. It's fine, I mostly wear a Fitbit Ionic these days anyway.
|
|
#
?
Mar 29, 2019 14:23
|
|
|
http://www.digital-watch.com/DWL/1work/casio-w-750 Bought one of these around 1984 and still have it. The clip on the steel band gave out pretty soon, so it's now on a cheap black nylon strap, the gasket is long gone so it's no longer waterproof, and broken tabs on the module mean that it no longer sits straight in the case. I’m still going to use it for as long as I can.
|
|
#
?
Mar 29, 2019 16:00
|
|
|
Because I'm a huge late 30s self hating hipster I saw a surf shop selling chucks. I wandered into said store and found out they are still selling calculator watches brand new.
|
|
#
?
Mar 29, 2019 17:53
|
|
|
Here's my nerdy niche obsolete product: a Casio horoscope watch. Input your birthdate, -time, latitude, and longitude, and you could get, at the press of various buttons, a rating for your day in the fields of love, money, health, work, and relationships:  along with an abbreviated Magic 8-Ball that would ruminate for a bit and answer YES, NO, or ? to any question you asked and another function that reveals your daily lucky color, number, and compatible star-sign. It could do these things for up to four people if you stored all their birth data in there. It could also show you where various celestial bodies were (like, the sun is at 11 degrees in the house of Aquarius). All this on top of keeping time, setting alarms, and all the other normal watch stuff. http://mygshock.com/casio-manual/1014/ I must have gotten mine in...oh, geez, the early '90s? I recently had a new battery installed, but it seems to be losing time, and one of the buttons is stuck.  I'd love to be able to wear it again just for the novelty of it. (I've worn a watch since kindergarten and have a metric fuckton of them, including a lot of gift Swatches. I splurged on a nice gold solar-powered Citizen ten years back and justified it by saying I really wouldn't need any more watches--and no batteries, either. My watch purchases have slowed down a lot since then; I still wear one whenever I leave the house.)
|
|
#
?
Mar 29, 2019 18:18
|
|
|
Hirayuki posted:Input your birthdate, -time, latitude, and longitude, and you could get, at the press of various buttons, a rating for your day in the fields of love, money, health, work, and relationships:
|
|
#
?
Mar 29, 2019 19:04
|
|
|
I was a really nerdy kid so I always had a Casio calculator watch. Those eventually became the Data Bank ones with all sorts of functions. Sometime around 2008 I realized that every single purpose my watch served (store phone numbers, be a calculator, set alarms, be a stopwatch) was now being done, and done much better, by my cellphone. The only thing left was "glance at wrist for time", so I switched to analog-face watches. Timex's Expedition line has some nice cheap ones that work great. So now I look slightly less nerdy, but the Voyager record T-shirt partially visible under my hoodie partially counteracts that.
|
|
#
?
Mar 29, 2019 21:03
|
|
|
I'm about 10 minutes away from winning an ebay auction for an old Russian hand-wound wristwatch because I'm a dweeb. I assume I'll wear it for a week or two, then start getting lazy about winding it and stick it in a drawer. Looks cool though.
|
|
#
?
Mar 29, 2019 22:38
|
|
|
Powered Descent posted:I was a really nerdy kid so I always had a Casio calculator watch. Those eventually became the Data Bank ones with all sorts of functions. The storing phone numbers thing in one of my watches was a way for me to get chicks phone numbers when i was a kid. I got 2!
|
|
#
?
Mar 30, 2019 04:31
|
|
|
The video in the new Techmoan is ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃ as gently caress.
|
|
#
?
Apr 20, 2019 03:20
|
|
|
I'm looking forward to the bi lighting and hard turn to socialism.
|
|
#
?
Apr 20, 2019 04:26
|
|
|
Kamrat posted:Every time I think there's no more obscure formats left to cover Techmoan posts a video of one. I used to have the exact model of Philips tape recorder on the left in that thumbnail. It's actually a lot cooler than it looks, because it's part of a reporter's portable interview kit - hence the small decibel meter in bottom right. The full package includes a microphone and a leather case with shoulder strap and full access to the controls, which are a joystick designed to be operated one-handed and without looking.
|
|
#
?
Apr 20, 2019 07:36
|
|
|
Techmoan could probably do a video on a non existent format and I would never know.
|
|
#
?
Apr 20, 2019 08:24
|
|
|
Wasabi the J posted:Techmoan could probably do a video on a non existent format and I would never know. I have format that he hasn't done (that I didnt see after a search) that is also non-existent. I forgot the manufacturer's name, but it's just "Video Disc". I have a player, more or less, brand new in the box. It has very little info on it, because no media was EVER produced for it. Oh, there was some in-house stuff done, but it ended up so dead-in-the-water stillborn garbage that no one even looked at it. Don't think it ever actually even got to the market, and they just dumped all their inventory of the machines.
|
|
#
?
Apr 20, 2019 19:43
|
|
|
Johnny Aztec posted:I have format that he hasn't done (that I didnt see after a search) that is also non-existent. Can you post a pic?
|
|
#
?
Apr 20, 2019 20:12
|
|
|
Johnny Aztec posted:I have format that he hasn't done (that I didnt see after a search) that is also non-existent. Why would you mention this and not post a picture in the thread specifically about obsolete and failed technology
|
|
#
?
Apr 20, 2019 20:19
|
|
|
Ehhhhhh fiiinneee. I walked out to my storage and dug out the box. I was mis-remembering a few things. It was made by McDonnell-Douglas and was called LASERFILM. quote:This was the last and shortest-lived of the competing VideoDisc formats that emerged in the 1980's. It had the distinction of using ordinary photographic film as the playback medium. The film was cut in the shape of a 12" disc which was loaded into the player with a caddy, much like the RCA CED System. Data was recorded on the disc as a spiral track of dots, which interrupted the laser beam as it was projected through the disc. Thus Laserfilm is a transmissive system rather than reflective, which is characteristic of the popular LaserDisc format. can see a picture here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laserfilm Seems they were used for Flight Simulators. I saw the word " LASER" on the box at a place, and assumed it was a Laserdisc player. No. It is a laser FILM player.
|
|
#
?
Apr 20, 2019 21:53
|
|
|
Johnny Aztec posted:Ehhhhhh fiiinneee. I walked out to my storage and dug out the box. I was mis-remembering a few things. You should email Techmoan with this.
|
|
#
?
Apr 20, 2019 21:59
|
|
|
I would definitely be interested in a deep dive on Laserfilm, yes.
|
|
#
?
Apr 20, 2019 22:03
|
|
|
Mister Kingdom posted:You should email Techmoan with this.
|
|
#
?
Apr 20, 2019 22:21
|
|
|
This poo poo infuriates me:quote:The commercial failure of this format is somewhat surprising quote:The playback time was limited to 18 minutes of full motion video per disc First you say something is surprising and then you reveal an aspect that makes it completely and utterly unsurprising to literally anyone. 
|
|
#
?
Apr 21, 2019 01:47
|
|
|
It's nearly long enough for a half-hour television show, and probably a number of those educational films, though? Not to mention the way that it is phrased implies it can hold a specific frame for an arbitrary period of time, so something like a slideshow could be far longer. Things can be commercially successful without being able to fit an entire feature-length film on a single piece of media.
|
|
#
?
Apr 21, 2019 02:41
|
|
|
Zenostein posted:It's nearly long enough for a half-hour television show, and probably a number of those educational films, though? Not to mention the way that it is phrased implies it can hold a specific frame for an arbitrary period of time, so something like a slideshow could be far longer. No, they literally can't.
|
|
#
?
Apr 21, 2019 02:50
|
|
|
Couldn’t you just make it 5 times larger so it has 5 times more storage and is 5 times less practical to use?
|
|
#
?
Apr 21, 2019 03:02
|
|
|
Zenostein posted:It's nearly long enough for a half-hour television show, and probably a number of those educational films, though? Not to mention the way that it is phrased implies it can hold a specific frame for an arbitrary period of time, so something like a slideshow could be far longer.
|
|
#
?
Apr 21, 2019 03:07
|
|
|
LaserDisc chat: Technology Connections is the best home technology history and exploration channel on Youtube. The host is a delightful little chub who obviously puts a shitload of work into his videos. He has an entire series of videos on home recording technologies, including Laser[everything], DVD, Video CD, VHS vs Betamax, Dolby noise cancellation, etc. He recently blew my mind with an episode about automatic toasters that Sunbeam made from the '40s through the '90s, and which I had never seen. Their design is brilliant, and it was a great video. He may have inhaled some asbestos during that episode, but it's not certain. I'm sure he's come up in this thread, before, but I like his channel, and thought I'd drop a plug.
|
|
#
?
Apr 21, 2019 03:55
|
|
|
The video of him repairing said toaster on his second channel is worth a watch. Makes for good second monitor content. It’s a good channel. In lieu of nothing, I’ve never finished his stoplight video. It knocks me out every time. I mean that in a good way though. Good Rats will do that to me as well if I’m reclining at all and I love me some AB.
|
|
#
?
Apr 21, 2019 05:59
|
|
|
Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:LaserDisc chat: Technology Connections is the best home technology history and exploration channel on Youtube. The host is a delightful little chub who obviously puts a shitload of work into his videos. He has an entire series of videos on home recording technologies, including Laser[everything], DVD, Video CD, VHS vs Betamax, Dolby noise cancellation, etc. He recently blew my mind with an episode about automatic toasters that Sunbeam made from the '40s through the '90s, and which I had never seen. Their design is brilliant, and it was a great video. He may have inhaled some asbestos during that episode, but it's not certain. He really is great with his content and research. Pretty much the same level of focus as 'My Life In Gaming' and their never ending obcession with RGB. Turns out the Onkyo LD player I bought a few weeks ago is a rebranded Pioneer so I am a very happy camper and it plays PAL and NTSC. I would like to find an ISO of a CD-V though to burn and test. No not VCD.
|
|
#
?
Apr 21, 2019 06:01
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 24, 2024 05:28 |
|
|
Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:LaserDisc chat: Technology Connections is the best home technology history and exploration channel on Youtube. The host is a delightful little chub who obviously puts a shitload of work into his videos. He has an entire series of videos on home recording technologies, including Laser[everything], DVD, Video CD, VHS vs Betamax, Dolby noise cancellation, etc. He recently blew my mind with an episode about automatic toasters that Sunbeam made from the '40s through the '90s, and which I had never seen. Their design is brilliant, and it was a great video. He may have inhaled some asbestos during that episode, but it's not certain. Yeah his channel is great... Like his sense of humor and what he puts into his videos. The recent "electromagnet in your toaster" video was great too, especially the little bit at the end where the Patreon credits start rolling.
|
|
#
?
Apr 21, 2019 07:03
|
|