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The model is TFM-C430W. I want to say it's from the 1970s but I'm not sure. https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/sony_fmam_digital_clock_radio_tfm_c430w.html I had one I bought from the Goodwill in Jackson, TN but the little copal clock motor died and I could never get it running again. I left it behind during a move. This model is one of the old style that use a synchronous AC motor that relies on the 60Hz AC frequency to keep time.
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Vanagoon posted:This is objectively the coolest Sony cube clock I don't like it.  It would be fine if it didn't have the SONY logo. Sony is all about tiny buttons, not big fake-chrome knobs - most which have labelled functions that are utterly incomprehensible: 
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I will not hear ill words spoken against Sony's shortwave radios In their day they were the best on the market unless you stepped up into the hard core ham radio nerd/CIA agent level of desktop radios. The absolute peak was the CRF-V21 which in addition to the usual excessive bells and whistles came with a built-in thermal printer for decoding and printing stuff like satellite weather images and news summaries that were transmitted over data streams via shortwave to sailors and other people in remote areas. Not surprisingly it's rare as poo poo and goes for $$$ whenever one occasionally surfaces these days. Have a Youtube video of it in action receiving Japanese newspaper headlines still being broadcast via shortwave in TYOOL 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XlJ6G4Rp9M
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Vanagoon posted:This is objectively the coolest Sony cube clock 
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chitoryu12 posted:Also after posting that cool video I should point out that's the second time Buckethead has accidentally infiltrated my nightmares. The other track was this: God I wish I could remember my dreams, like. I never do. It sucks. I've had Aphex Twin playing as background music for sleeping, so I know how weird can go. But I don't have it up loud enough to really hear most of the music while I'm sleeping. So, who knows.
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There is always a Techmoan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnowLQBnE0I
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If you're into amazing clock designs -- oh, and pretty much every other kind of consumer electronics -- you have to check out this site: http://future-forms.com/categories/clocks/
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Re: flip clocks, anyone know of one that doesn't cost an arm and a leg (sub-$100), doesn't have all of the mechanical parts exposed and isn't festooned with the manufacturer's logo?
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 It's a Pragotron IPJ 0612, you can usually get them for around that. There's one for sale nearby now for about $65 but it'll probably cost a fortune to ship, if it even survives.
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Trabant posted:If you're into amazing clock designs -- oh, and pretty much every other kind of consumer electronics -- you have to check out this site: Thank you so much for this site.
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Balliver Shagnasty posted:Meanwhile, here's a comparatively lame Sony cube clock I have this and the same problem. I just use it to tell time when I'm in bed. Just use my phone now.
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What the gently caress... https://mobile.twitter.com/gravislizard/status/1177077553002975232
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That’s cool.
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I'm assuming that's for laptops.
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Kwyndig posted:I'm assuming that's for laptops. The orientation confirms this
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I can't remember if cdrom drives like that ran straight atapi or some other proprietary protocol. It's not totally crazy if they were ata, though.
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boo_radley posted:I can't remember if cdrom drives like that ran straight atapi or some other proprietary protocol. It's not totally crazy if they were ata, though. It was usually ATAPI/ATA/IDE running through a proprietary interface that provided data plus power in the same connector. You'd also see laptops with secondary connectors in the drive bay for other devices. I had a Dell laptop for work in the late 2000s that would allow you to substitute a secondary battery for an optical drive. I think it was a Latitude 630...? With both it had something silly like 14 hours of endurance on a single charge.
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Older Thinkpad X-series with the Ultrabay and slice batteries could get over 24 hours, probably 30+ with non-demanding tasks.
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KozmoNaut posted:Older Thinkpad X-series with the Ultrabay and slice batteries could get over 24 hours, probably 30+ with non-demanding tasks. My old Panasonic Toughbook CF-74 (from memory) has an insane battery life, never needed charging throughout a full work day. This is really neat. A camera with a PowerPC 66Mhz CPU and supported app creation by Kodak themselves (in 1998): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gCZZkBATSc
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I miss having a monochrome cell phone that could go several DAYS without needing a charge. Although that has more to do with lightweight hardware and low usage than anything else.
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ryonguy posted:I miss having a monochrome cell phone that could go several DAYS without needing a charge. Although that has more to do with lightweight hardware and low usage than anything else. Yeah we weren't consuming HD video in our never ending scrolling social media with constant push requests for notifications.
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A part of me wishes we had a gimmick phone that only updated when you press a physical button and did monotasking + calls whenever an app is open. Preferably with a low spec android system and a battery bigger than some older laptop's.
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ryonguy posted:I miss having a monochrome cell phone that could go several DAYS without needing a charge. Although that has more to do with lightweight hardware and low usage than anything else. On days when I work from home and my phone can sit on wifi all day (and I never really use it for much since I have my real computers right there), my phone only goes down from 100% to about 75% over the course of the day. 
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T-man posted:A part of me wishes we had a gimmick phone that only updated when you press a physical button and did monotasking + calls whenever an app is open. Preferably with a low spec android system and a battery bigger than some older laptop's. Someone needs to make a smartphone case that resembles a DynaTac 8000x, except instead of being filled with nicad cells and antiquated communications tech its packed full of 18650 cells that charge your smartphone. Maybe make the speaker and microphone functional to boot.
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Doubles as an incendiary grenade.
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You guys know that the Nokia 3310 and Nokia 105 exist right? If you are desperate for a phone that can only do calls and texting and lasts forever they are right there and dirt cheap. There are also several weird startup companies that sell phones that only do rudimentary stuff while costing hundreds of dollars. You can also just use any old smartphone. My wife uses an old first gen Moto G as a work phone where she only needs to receive calls and without Wifi or mobile data on it lasts about two weeks on standby.
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Shai-Hulud posted:You guys know that the Nokia 3310 and Nokia 105 exist right? If you are desperate for a phone that can only do calls and texting and lasts forever they are right there and dirt cheap. I've noticed all the accumulators on my Nokias have started to go bad (have to charge every day). Probably because they're literally all ten years old now. I wonder if I can get new ones that aren't Aliexpress bombs?
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Jerry Cotton posted:I've noticed all the accumulators on my Nokias have started to go bad (have to charge every day). Probably because they're literally all ten years old now. I wonder if I can get new ones that aren't Aliexpress bombs? I've not an N900 and N97 to sell you.
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Last Chance posted:
I had one of these from 1990-2006, when it inexplicably stopped working. c u @ da crossroads
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A Logic Named Joe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Logic_Named_Joe You got a logic in your house. It looks like a vision receiver used to, only it's got keys instead of dials and you punch the keys for what you wanna get. It's hooked in to the tank, which has the Carson Circuit all fixed up with relays. Say you punch in "Station SNAFU" on your Logic. Relays in the tank take over an' whatever vision-program SNAFU is telecastin' comes on your Logic's screen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V6NO_pvjeI
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Sllightly off topic, but apparently the upstairs Blu-ray player is no longer compatible with Netflix, I guess that makes it obsolete now, other than for discs. This is gonna be used as excuse to replace the TV it was hooked up to, I think. Which is an old hosed up plasma so you know, good.
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Do they still make plasma tv?
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Kwyndig posted:Do they still make plasma tv? They do not. I had one of the last models LG made and LG was one of the last manufactures. Old plasma owners migrated to OLED.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Old plasma owners migrated to OLED. You can take my c. 2009 Panasonic plasma when you pry it from my cold dead fingers! which will happen after its 90-lb rear end pulls the mount off the wall and brains me as I'm fiddling with the cables, probably.
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Trabant posted:after its 90-lb rear end pulls the mount off the wall and brains me as I'm fiddling with the cables, probably. 
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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:That doesn't look grover-approved. Solution: thicker drywall.
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ryonguy posted:Solution: thicker drywall. more insulation for ballast
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1. TV mounted directly to drywall and no studs at all 2. Tiny useless shelf next to an outlet which makes one or both nearly useless 3. Second shelf looks like it is also coming off the wall and slanting tot he floor 4. Second shelf has a console stacked on top of a PS3, I think, which has a rounded top 5. Rat's nest of cables and extensions cords pushed into a corner 6. All of this next to the radiator
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