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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1cWXamGZmM Techmoan made a video about music on vintage game machine cartridges. Here is a playlist of the second album on the the artist’s (?) YouTube account.
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evobatman posted:Sounds great, pretty much. Lots of power from those relatively small speakers, since each driver has its own amplifier. I've had a ton of B&O stuff, it always sounds good since the electronics inside them are typically top-shelf stuff from Philips or Panasonic. When they are new you pay a huge premium for the Danish design, but preowned you can get amazing deals. This system would probably have been $3,000 new in 90s money. I paid $50 for it since nobody plays CDs any more, and FM radio here has been replaced by DAB+. Does it have an aux in? If so, put an echo dot behind it and bring it to the year 2019
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TraderStav posted:Does it have an aux in? If so, put an echo dot behind it and bring it to the year 2019 It does indeed, I use a Chromecast Audio on it when I feel like mixing in a bit of the modern world.
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Necrothatcher posted:I acquired one of these gigantic motherfuckers shortly after their release when my Dad won it in a competition: I had the third iteration of this (with a 20 GB spinning disk and IEEE-1394 in the days predating USB 2.0) and honestly, while the footprint/size of it seems massive by modern standards, in the early 2000s portable CD players were still common and it really wasn't that out of place comparatively speaking.
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I was at my local e-recycling center this weekend. I'll need to take more pictures of the other bays for things like 90s laptops, but this bay of consoles was fantastic.
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Giant Metal Robot posted:I was at my local e-recycling center this weekend. I'll need to take more pictures of the other bays for things like 90s laptops, but this bay of consoles was fantastic.  Realistically, how much of all that is actually recyclable? Can most of that be melted down and reused?
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XkyRauh posted:So many memories in there, from all the gamers who let them go. I can day that those bays are for consumer/business reuse. For example they sell refurbished, late-model Macs for cheap, and they sell/rent decent condition obsolete tech to TV productions. The stuff they can't put into reuse is palletized and shipped off for what I assume is disassembly/shredding/material recovery/trashing. Edit: Found a decent report "products on the market today have greatly reduced amounts of metal, with gold being replaced by copper in many lower-end applications, which impacts their value for material recovery" "plastics with BFRs (flame retardants used in electronic casings) present a challenge in the recycling stream, since plastics with BFRs should not be re-integrated into new products [according to many regulations]" "roughly 6 billion pounds of CRT displays were left in households in 2015 (NCER, 2015)" Giant Metal Robot has a new favorite as of 05:17 on Sep 3, 2019 |
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So that's what, 4, maybe 5 CRTs? Not bad.
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I’ve got a dying Trinitron XBR 42” CRT that I bought 20 years ago that I’m going to have to pay money to get rid of because it weighs 275 pounds or so
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Keith Atherton posted:I’ve got a dying Trinitron XBR 42” CRT that I bought 20 years ago that I’m going to have to pay money to get rid of because it weighs 275 pounds or so You might as well hollow it out and list it on AirBnB
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I had one of those, but what I really wanted was one of these:  Primarily because Netstumbler was optimized for those cards. And then I bought a laptop that actually had built-in WiFi, rendering these cards obsolete for the average consumer.
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I can't believe Enya designed a network card
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Balliver Shagnasty posted:I had one of those, but what I really wanted was one of these: Ha! Same... work had a bunch of laptops for execs with those cards in them. There was a tiny covered hole that you could take the cap off of and plug an antenna into turning it into an access point. My first wireless was d-link in 2000. My dad and I spent the $800 for an access point and 2 cards. It was crazy cutting edge at the time.
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namlosh posted:My first wireless was d-link in 2000. My dad and I spent the $800 for an access point and 2 cards. It was crazy cutting edge at the time. Heh, that reminds me of the dumb poo poo we had to do for home networking in the pre-WiFi days. In college I was living in a 2-story duplex with 4 other roommates, and fortunately one of them was an aspiring computer toucher. So he rigged up a Linux tower under his desk attached to a hub which led to a spaghetti mess of cables strung along the walls all throughout the apartment. 5 years later a single WiFi router could replace all that with trivial difficulty. This was also in a neighborhood that had not yet been wired for cable internet, so we got a second phone line (lol now at the idea of having not one but TWO landlines), and he configured the Linux box to dial into the college's modem bank and auto-redial whenever we automatically got kicked off after like 3 hours. As I recall the university eventually noticed he had been logged in basically continuously for like 4 months and lowered the timeout on his account, at which point we started cycling through the rest of our accounts. (Yes, 5 of us were sharing a single 56k modem connection. When cable internet arrived the next year it felt like a miracle delivered from on high by Jesus himself in comparison.)
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Known Lecher posted:Heh, that reminds me of the dumb poo poo we had to do for home networking in the pre-WiFi days. In college I was living in a 2-story duplex with 4 other roommates, and fortunately one of them was an aspiring computer toucher. So he rigged up a Linux tower under his desk attached to a hub which led to a spaghetti mess of cables strung along the walls all throughout the apartment. 5 years later a single WiFi router could replace all that with trivial difficulty. I hope he also set up a caching proxy for you guys to at least take some of the load off the connection.
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I was cleaning up some junk and I came across some mix tapes I made of Beatles stuff (when Anthology 2 came out). Reminded me of my old bookshelf stereo system (5.0 surround sound, suckers!). It had this really cool High-Speed dubbing system where you could load up a CD, tell it which tracks you wanted dubbed, and it would perform strange 90s voodoo to determine the track lengths, figure out what would fit on the tape, maximize the number of tracks and then proceed. You sometimes got stuff like an early track shifted to the B-Side because of length, but it was a really amazing thing for a kid who liked to carry around a lot of music. drat thing had one of those track sensors on tape so you could just FF to the next track if you were getting sick of the song, too. Kind of miss that old bastard. 
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Keith Atherton posted:I’ve got a dying Trinitron XBR 42” CRT that I bought 20 years ago that I’m going to have to pay money to get rid of because it weighs 275 pounds or so If its not entirely dead yet, put it free on craigslist mentioning the symptoms. Some people really like big crts, and might be willing to take the gamble on fixing it.
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Killingyouguy! posted:I can't believe Enya designed a network card 
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I was about to say orinoco flow is about 11 Mbit/s
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Had a sensible chuckle after remembering this was a thing released back in 2009
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Toys For rear end Bum posted:Had a sensible chuckle after remembering this was a thing released back in 2009 Released 2019:  (I assumed you were chuckling over the front-facing selfie screen?)
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That wasn't for selfies. It was to show people the photo you just took (no crowding around the other side immediately after) and to let the subjects see what they looked like and adjust a bit.
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namlosh posted:Ha! Same... work had a bunch of laptops for execs with those cards in them. There was a tiny covered hole that you could take the cap off of and plug an antenna into turning it into an access point. I spent $500 on a USB Bluetooth Adaptor...
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At some point in my teens I pulled cat5 through the house in inelegant and probably unsafe ways, and for a while used my old 486 to share the ISDN line. I even used OS/2 as the server OS for half a year after an especially adventurous night of  . Somewhat surprisingly that just worked, with the limited free version of some commercial ISDN dialler with a built-in NAT server. ADSL was an incredible upgrade when it arrived - I could even listen to a webradio (through the real player catalog of such, no doubt) without hogging absolutely all the bandwidth. I skipped out on WiFi until it it came integrated in laptops, though. IIRC the first hardware we had was some 3com base station and my ThinkPad R50. I miss 3com as an independent company. Computer viking has a new favorite as of 10:31 on Sep 4, 2019 |
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FilthyImp posted:That wasn't for selfies. It was to show people the photo you just took (no crowding around the other side immediately after) and to let the subjects see what they looked like and adjust a bit. The russians just turned the camera around.
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Krispy Wafer posted:You don’t think the longest running Opel ever isn’t amazing? I have a friend with a 1984 Opel, it's his every day car. Not by choice, he just poor and unemployed, and stubborn like gently caress and knows all the junkyards to look for spares. It's actually a certified veteran car, though it looks like poo poo. I offered him a free car, but he didn't want it since he knew how to work his current car, had loads of spares and it was much more modern and he is no good at electronics. It was a 2000 Renault something.
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His Divine Shadow posted:I have a friend with a 1984 Opel, it's his every day car. Not by choice, he just poor and unemployed, and stubborn like gently caress and knows all the junkyards to look for spares. It's actually a certified veteran car, though it looks like poo poo. extreme my summer car vibe
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namlosh posted:My first wireless was d-link in 2000. My dad and I spent the $800 for an access point and 2 cards. It was crazy cutting edge at the time. I'm more on the trailing, cheaper/free edge of technology  Our family did have a LAN very early, but it was 10BASE2 - coax cable which needs no infrastructure. When I finally went to 10BASE-T (UTP) in 2002 it was because I got an old router for free. No, not a switch, so all my PCs had to be on different IP networks (the router could do bridging but it seemed to be flaky), which meant they all had a different default gateway because the router's IP on each of these networks was obviously different too. Then when we got ADSL, that had no switch in it, so now I had two routers. Then when WiFi became cheap I got one with a switch in it, but it didn't have enough ports for everything (which included a free HP LaserJet I'd gotten) so I had to keep using the original router too, and the WiFi router did NAT so my laptop had to go through 3 hops inside the house before it got to the Internet.Lucky for me my work has thrown out a gigabit switch since then!
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evobatman posted:The russians just turned the camera around. I love you
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I only know Opel from them being one of the main producers of trucks for the Wehrmach, so that speaks to their quality.
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twistedmentat posted:I only know Opel from them being one of the main producers of trucks for the Wehrmach, so that speaks to their quality. I'd be more concerned that they're currently owned by the same group that thought Chrysler was a sound investment, and spent the post-war era through 2017 under the management of General Motors. Basically I wouldn't trust their vehicles any further than you can throw them.
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Geoj posted:I'd be more concerned that they're currently owned by the same group that thought Chrysler was a sound investment, and spent the post-war era through 2017 under the management of General Motors. I'm pretty sure you can't even throw most Opels, so that's not a valid way of getting them to move either. Pushing might still work Disclaimer: I don't actually hate Opel, they are just unequivocally known as being bad cars.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i7LV4LkBFo All I really know about Opel is that the Manta has a legendary reputation in Germany as the vehicle of choice for a certain type of teenager (here in Finland, the rough equivalent would be an old Toyota Corolla). A lovely old Manta also participates in the Nürburgring 24-hour race every year, complete with a fox tail hanging off the back. edit: I am in no way an Opel Manta scholar so my information may be slightly inaccurate DMorbid has a new favorite as of 11:26 on Sep 5, 2019 |
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Doc M posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i7LV4LkBFo Alle wieder abgehängt!
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Doc M posted:All I really know about Opel is that the Manta has a legendary reputation in Germany as the vehicle of choice for a certain type of teenager (here in Finland, the rough equivalent would be an old Toyota Corolla). A lovely old Manta also participates in the Nürburgring 24-hour race every year, complete with a fox tail hanging off the back. There was also a whole genre of jokes about Manta drivers. My favorite: Slow day at the gas station. A young guy comes in and tells the attendant, "ey*, I locked myself out of my Manta, do you have a piece of wire so I can try to get it open?" Being a friendly guy, the attendant gives him some wire and the young guy is off. A quarter hour later the attendant notices that the Manta is still sitting there, with the guy trying to open it. He decides to go out and help, and when he gets near to the car he sees that the guy's girlfriend+ is sitting inside, making helpful remarks like "more to the left," "no, higher," and so on. * Stereotypical Manta driver word used to begin a sentence. + Canonically, she would be a hairdresser.
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I've heard that same joke, but it was a bass player trying to get the drummer out of the car
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SEKCobra posted:I'm pretty sure you can't even throw most Opels, so that's not a valid way of getting them to move either. Pushing might still work What about rolling them down a hill? And when you think about it, US auto manufacturers are failed tech.
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twistedmentat posted:What about rolling them down a hill? Imagine me posting a video of the Blechbüchsenarmee here (because I can't find one).
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