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3D Megadoodoo posted:What's obsolete about a pregnancy test? If you read the thread when they tear down the digital pregnancy tester there is an old fashioned paper strip test inside and a sensor just reads the stripe on it. An old analog test masquerading as a digital one, with bonus electronic waste for your favorite landfill. Also: https://twitter.com/Baton2Joie/status/1301718624533700610?s=20 Dick Trauma has a new favorite as of 11:46 on Sep 4, 2020 |
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Dick Trauma posted:If you read the thread I would rather eat poo poo than click through to Twitter.
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Dick Trauma posted:"I don't want one of those old-fashioned pregnancy tests... I want a digital one..." That's a thread worth reading. I am shaking my head. 3D Megadoodoo posted:I would rather eat poo poo than click through to Twitter. Moo the cow has a new favorite as of 12:20 on Sep 4, 2020 |
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Sep 4, 2020 12:18
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Well this is obsolete no more! remastered and on PC, today!
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And unlike CERTAIN OTHER rereleases, it evidently functions and doesn't go destroying the old version of the game if you have it around!
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LifeSunDeath posted:Well this is obsolete no more!
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Until they release Skate or Die, I don't care. (Don't tell me if they already did, let me live in my drunk bubble)
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Does anyone still do the rabbit urine pregnancy test anymore? That's what they were doing back in the 70s when I was born.
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Goober Peas posted:Does anyone still do the rabbit urine pregnancy test anymore? That's what they were doing back in the 70s when I was born. You into that? I... might know a guy. of course nobody does that anymore. the rabbit test checked the rabbit's response to hCG; the little test sticks check for the same hormone but doesn't involve haruspicy
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Goober Peas posted:Does anyone still do the rabbit urine pregnancy test anymore? That's what they were doing back in the 70s when I was born.  EDIT: It is a bad movie.
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I'll take your word for it but at this moment I never have wanted to watch anything more. Sorry "Citizen Kane", I've heard good things but you'll have to wait yet another day. At this rate, I'll never know the name of his sled.
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It was soooo bad. Crammed wall to wall with familiar faces who get to do pretty much nothing, and it relentlessly hits you over the head with weak one-liners and sight gags. If you want to see a very strange but excellent forgotten movie from that era I recommend "Simon." It's about a man who is brainwashed into thinking he's an alien. EDIT: Holy poo poo the whole thing is on Youtube! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3lfS8_lfqQ Dick Trauma has a new favorite as of 16:40 on Sep 4, 2020 |
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This might be the first time I hit quote when I wanted edit, thanks to the stupid button names.
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Dick Trauma posted:It was soooo bad. Crammed wall to wall with familiar faces who get to do pretty much nothing, and it relentlessly hits you over the head with weak one-liners and sight gags. I assumed as much but I'm still curious in a 'passing a car crash' sort of way. Huh. I've seen Simon before but completely forgot about it until now so thanks. I'm an Alana Arkin fan. I'll check it out. RoyKeen has a new favorite as of 17:23 on Sep 4, 2020 |
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Didn't the rabbit test involve killing the rabbit? At least that's what M*A*S*H taught me.
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Cojawfee posted:Didn't the rabbit test involve killing the rabbit? At least that's what M*A*S*H taught me. Yes, you have to examine its ovaries. This tends to be hard on the rabbit. (Yes, you could do a hysterectomy on the rabbit, but presumably that particular rabbit's entire raison d'etre is to provide ovaries for pregnancy tests...)
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Cojawfee posted:Didn't the rabbit test involve killing the rabbit? At least that's what M*A*S*H taught me. You're thinking of a chicken. It was a chicken.
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The Ape of Naples posted:You're thinking of a chicken. It was a chicken. There was no chicken.
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Cojawfee posted:There was no chicken. Wait.. what? No. I totally remember choking that chicken.
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Pretty good posted:It's absolute garbage that there's no switch version not really, but ok. so far having a blast.
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Did you not read the spoiler text.
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To be fair not reading it is what spoiler text is for.
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Dick Trauma posted:(1902 film of suspended railroad) That looks like something right out of Dishonored. Oh, and it's still operating! Wipfmetz has a new favorite as of 22:47 on Sep 4, 2020 |
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I think it would be a great promotion to put an elephant on it. What's the worst thing that could happen?
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Dick Trauma posted:I think it would be a great promotion to put an elephant on it. What's the worst thing that could happen? Well, the worst thing that did happen...
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Can someone point me in teh direction of a 25 Pin parallel 3.5in Floppy external case/caddy? Like this but 25 pin parallel instead of USB:
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Can't go through a USB-parallel intermediary?
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Growing up my parents had this TV in the living room: You had to manually dial in the frequency using the big dial. Fortunately there were only 4 channels. 10" screen size and we all used to watch stuff as a family so were I guess 8 feet away from it? This would probably qualify as child abuse nowadays.
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ArcMage posted:Can't go through a USB-parallel intermediary? Na it's soley for a DB25 only host. I'm tearing down the original PCB and testing components (it's pretty dumb with a 7805, a diode, two caps and a DPDT relay) and tracing out the PCB for signs of failure due to corrosion. Would kinda like a new solution too as a backup/option.
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I don't think there are any generic parallel->floppy adapters. You used to be able to get complete external floppy drives (usually "Backpack" branded) that connected to a parallel ports but they needed drivers and were quite flaky, and some 90s laptops had a combined parallel/floppy port but they only worked with specific external drives that couldn't be plugged into standard parallel ports.
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knox_harrington posted:Growing up my parents had this TV in the living room: It must have been around the mid-80s when we got a TV with a very strange tuning mechanism that was some kind of hybrid between that kind of totally analog setup and the electronic pushbutton era. It had no preset channel stops, instead there were two buttons that would move the tuning up and down, and you'd have to center on the station yourself. Fortunately you didn't have to do that every time you wanted to change the channel, since there were twelve "memory locations": buttons labeled 2 through 13 where you could save a particular tuning, just like the buttons on a car radio. We put the VHF stations on their own numbers and filled in the UHF stations in the unused numbers, so you had to remember (for example) that channel 32 was saved on button 4. I don't think I ever saw another TV that worked the same way. It was really weird but once you had it set up, it worked just fine. And hey, it was our first TV with a remote control, so it had that going for it.
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I've never understood how car radio buttons worked before digital tuning.
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You just turned the knob, it spun, and a little orange piece of plastic slid side to side behind numbers to show you approximately what frequency you were at. You’d get close and then using your ears you’d dial it in perfect once it sounded good.
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I think he means the preset buttons. From a cursory search, it seems like each button was its own tuner, and when you pushed it in, the radio would use that button to tune the radio.
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Cojawfee posted:I think he means the preset buttons. From a cursory search, it seems like each button was its own tuner, and when you pushed it in, the radio would use that button to tune the radio. I have an old short/medium wave console radio which does indeed work like this--it has a bunch of little capacitors that are switched in when you press the button. However, setting the presents involves poking a screwdriver through a hole in the front of the case and twiddling until you find the right setting. God knows how the car radios did it, because as I recall they would also move the needle to the appropriate frequency on the dial. I'm sure it was some sort of complex yet surprisingly sturdy mechanical linkage.
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Pham Nuwen posted:I have an old short/medium wave console radio which does indeed work like this--it has a bunch of little capacitors that are switched in when you press the button. However, setting the presents involves poking a screwdriver through a hole in the front of the case and twiddling until you find the right setting. The needle is normally moved by a loop of string, connected to the knob and a variable capacitor. You change between the capacitors via the preset buttons, but i don't currently know how to set the preset in those radios.
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Lurking Haro posted:The needle is normally moved by a loop of string, connected to the knob and a variable capacitor. You change between the capacitors via the preset buttons, but i don't currently know how to set the preset in those radios. 1. Tune in desired station 2. Pull a button OUT 3. Push the button all the way IN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SVdAIqZ7O0 Now you're set. rockinricky has a new favorite as of 21:44 on Sep 5, 2020 |
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Not sure exactly how the linkage worked, but you pulled out on the button to release it, tuned to the station you wanted, then pushed the button all the way back in to set it.
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rockinricky posted:1. Tune in desired station Oh, the dial changes too! Then it's just spring action. Thank you for the explaination.
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I have an older Luxor radio receiver that has three presets on the tuning knob. You have to set them in order because of the way the mechanism works but other than that it's great (and it's not like I've ever actually re-set them after the first time). No-one listens to more than three stations anyway. I think it's either this or very similar: 
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