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Johnny Aztec posted:Thrift store find today: I'm looking at the knobs on the right... is it also a VHF/UHF TV receiver? Neat, if so.
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Pham Nuwen posted:I'm looking at the knobs on the right... is it also a VHF/UHF TV receiver? Neat, if so. old receivers/tuners used to have VHF/UHF built in too so that you could 'listen' to tv, much like you can listen to CNN or MSNBC on something like tunein.com I swear that my grandpa had one of these in his flower shop in like the late 80s and it was old at that point, unless I'm completely forgetting how it worked
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Dick Trauma posted:Your lamps are now obsolete. We've got one of these in my sons room, they are great with a Philips Hue, they do collect dust though. You have to be reeeeeeal sure they are secured to your ceiling well, making them pop open takes a decent amount of force
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I've seen some people turn them remote controlled with an Xbee or similar and an RC servo.
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Automatic Radio making plant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QHizDkrFqg
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peter gabriel posted:We've got one of these in my sons room, they are great with a Philips Hue, they do collect dust though. The one with the copper-colored internals is much cooler than the white one, and it looks like IKEA reintroduced that one because it was unavailable at some point.
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SCheeseman posted:I miss big chunky buttons on my electronics. kerPLUNK. Those large, chunky rotary dials on that VCR remind me of the ones on my grandparents' old TV. Bonus points if you've ever had to use vice grips to change channels after one of the dials broke.
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90s Solo Cup posted:Those large, chunky rotary dials on that VCR remind me of the ones on my grandparents' old TV. Bonus points if instead of replacing the plastic dial quickly while the post was still the right grooved shape, you just kept using the vice grips until the post was crushed smooth and a replacement dial would no longer fit.
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Imagined posted:Bonus points if instead of replacing the plastic dial quickly while the post was still the right grooved shape, you just kept using the vice grips until the post was crushed smooth and a replacement dial would no longer fit. See, that's why you just leave the vise grips clamped onto the stem all the time, instead of clamping and releasing every time.
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We had a ceiling fan dial that was the same size as the TV dial. Of course my parents didn't buy a new dial instead opting to pull it off the fan switch and vice versa.
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Because Techmoan is a thread favourite, even if this isn't really a topic for the thread. A chocolate record, timestamped to the  part:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZmWS1ER-z0&t=391s
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Trabant posted:Because Techmoan is a thread favourite, even if this isn't really a topic for the thread. A chocolate record, timestamped to the I've never figured out what the beeps are at the end of every episode.
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This was the VHS player I remember as a kid.  And I remember the Betamax that was laying around the house too, the model in the pic below. When it was unplugged, I used to open the front flap and tune the settings knobs with the little plastic tool that was stored in the flap. Apologies if it's big, phone posting.  My aunt used to work at a production company when I was small, and there was a bag full of Betamax tapes stashed at my house. In the mid/late 90s, once I hit my teens, I went through them, and they were mostly lovely horror. I think The Godsend was one of them?
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Humphreys posted:I've never figured out what the beeps are at the end of every episode. He has it in the description of every video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M3-ZV5-QDM
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Kamrat posted:For late 90's stuff I found that vmware works fine for me, but it's not perfect at all so it's good to have a retro-pc handy for those cases when it doesn't work well. I think we all have our retrogaming white whales. Mine is Interplay's unfinished crock of a Star Trek RTS, New Worlds. Completely forgotten by the industry, and doesn't run on anything unless you go to huge amounts of effort. I've tried a few times but never gotten past the title screen.
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Der Kyhe posted:The one with the copper-colored internals is much cooler than the white one, and it looks like IKEA reintroduced that one because it was unavailable at some point. I got the silver as it was always gonna have a Phillips Hue bulb in it, can have any colour at all (and I can turn his lights off with my phone  )
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ishikabibble posted:He has it in the description of every video. Whoever did the sound design was pretty savvy IMOH.
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ishikabibble posted:He has it in the description of every video. Well drat, I've NEVER noticed that. Thanks! I did spend far to long sampling it to feed into Morse and other datatypes getting nowhere. Humphreys has a new favorite as of 09:24 on Dec 15, 2020 |
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LifeSunDeath posted:yes, and it's really interesting. really went into very specifics about the history of fabrication/installation of bugging equipment, and loads of other stuff. So I was going to request this from the Boston library but the only book version they have is in Chinese. 
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Shrieking Muppet posted:So I was going to request this from the Boston library but the only book version they have is in Chinese. it's not super useful for modern spying, but interesting sure.
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Relevant to thread is another book by one of the authors of that Spycraft book: The Secret History of KGB Spy Cameras: 1945–1995 which he wrote with a couple of retired KGB officers. It's thoroughly illustrated with all kinds of crazy wearable/concealable still photo and movie cameras, and a fair number of anecdotes that start with "so I was wandering around a flea market in Khabarovsk in the early 90s and..." Just all kinds of really ingenious technology rendered completely obsolete by a cellphone's built-in camera (and digital cameras in general).
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Porfiriato posted:Relevant to thread is another book by one of the authors of that Spycraft book: what is incredible in those books is that people had to train to know from muscle memory where the focus plane for those cameras was. No viewfinder, no tripod, nothing, so imagine when you're trying to get a good close up of something with a camera phone, and like it's off center unless you're looking at it and lining it up...but you just have to get it right from feel, and under penalty of death in many cases...really insane.
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Dec 25, 2020 16:04
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I remember reading that some of those tiny cameras came with a length of thread to indicate the focal length.
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Dick Trauma posted:I remember reading that some of those tiny cameras came with a length of thread to indicate the focal length. Wikipedia posted:An 18-inch (460 mm) measuring chain was provided with most Minox subminiature cameras, which enabled easy copying of letter-sized documents. The espionage use of the Minox has been portrayed in Hollywood movies and TV shows, and some 1980s Minox advertising has played up the "spy camera" story.
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This is some pretty good obsolete tech if anyone is looking to expand their collection. A pair of DECwriter IV's, one new old stock. Price isn't too bad either. https://www.ebay.com/itm/DIGITAL-DECWRITER-IV-TYPEWRITER-EK-0LA34-UG-001-LA34/184580863141 
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super nailgun posted:This is some pretty good obsolete tech if anyone is looking to expand their collection. A pair of DECwriter IV's, one new old stock. Price isn't too bad either. I'm currently in the area and could pick them up, but I don't have space. Seller seems to think they're typewriters, but they're serial terminals... I've wanted one but my wife will not approve in our apartment.
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Pham Nuwen posted:I'm currently in the area and could pick them up, but I don't have space. Seller seems to think they're typewriters, but they're serial terminals... I've wanted one but my wife will not approve in our apartment. How big are they? Seems like could slide under the bed.
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Man, I saw that and had a visceral memory of how they sounded.
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There was a novel called 'The Interface Man' that hit a little to clsoe to reality of using EM radiation to figure out what was on a targets monitor in realtime. In the decades since it's release it's came out as a valid Proof of Concept at least for airgapped system eavesdropping.
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Humphreys posted:There was a novel called 'The Interface Man' that hit a little to clsoe to reality of using EM radiation to figure out what was on a targets monitor in realtime. In the decades since it's release it's came out as a valid Proof of Concept at least for airgapped system eavesdropping. Isn’t that literally Van Eck phreaking? Its been a thing since the original paper in 1985.
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Catzilla posted:Isn’t that literally Van Eck phreaking? Its been a thing since the original paper in 1985. Ah, the book I mentioned came out in 1990, and as the paper was unclassified - so means I am wrong. Coulda sworn that book came out a lot earlier.
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It was also a minor plot element in Necronomicon. Edit: 
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Chemmy posted:Cryptonomicon? Lol yeah that one
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Chemmy posted:Cryptonomicon?
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One thing I'll give Cryptonomicon is that its description of how the whole Van Eck thing actually works is extremely clear. If (for some strange reason) I were called upon to explain it to people, I'd probably go look up that passage, and freely steal from it.
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I read that book and the only thing I can remember is they were racing some guy to recover gold from an underground site and "won" by flooding the tunnels with gas, lighting it, ...and it somehow melting all the gold so it came pouring out in a river. Frankly, It was boring as poo poo
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Despite being so bad at math that I think I might have a neurological problem Cryptonomicon made me purchase a book about cryptography, and it was excellent.
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The concepts in Cryptonomicon were interesting even if the story was dumb.
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