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I went through some old boxes and I found my old TI-92! The Game Gear of calculators and my trusty "saved my rear end a thousand times courtesy of symbolic integration functions" companion from last year of high school through grad school. Does it still work? Of course it still works! I bought it in '97 and really wanted the TI-92+ module when it came out, but it disappeared from stores before I could get one. However, 20 years later and thanks to eBay:  Does the + module still work? Of course it still works!  (Can I take quality photos? Of course I can't!) Despite engineering school being a mostly unhappy time for me, I'm thrilled for finding this thing and being able to give it a brain implant. Now to see whether there's a community of turbonerds like myself who still play with this thing.
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Trabant posted:I went through some old boxes and I found my old TI-92! The Game Gear of calculators and my trusty "saved my rear end a thousand times courtesy of symbolic integration functions" companion from last year of high school through grad school. Does it still work? Of course it still works! They wouldn't let me take my EIT exam with that thing. They would let me take my EIT exam with a borrowed Ti-89, which had exactly the same symbolic math engine. The reasoning? The -92 has a keyboard. Ignoring that so does the -89, it's just not a QWERTY one.
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May 25, 2021 23:52
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I had to use some stupid HP calculator to take the EIT. The 12C maybe? I didn’t even want to take the EIT, but they told us if we didn’t take it we’d get charged $200 or be unable to graduate.
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May 26, 2021 01:25
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endocriminologist posted:You can get one of those terrible Chinese emulation handhelds with fake wood
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May 26, 2021 01:26
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Chemmy posted:I had to use some stupid HP calculator to take the EIT. The 12C maybe? The HP12C is a financial calculator, that sounds terrifying.
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May 26, 2021 04:12
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Sorry it was an HP 33S and I passed the EIT despite having never taken a class in either of the two sections I got to choose because.
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Nocheez posted:Oh man, I used to play Gran Turismo 3 on my 42" rear-projection HDTV, and it looked pretty good when you were in the sweet spot with the force feedback steering wheel. I am nostalgic for pre-covid times and that was only a decade ago.
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May 26, 2021 05:45
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I don't buy for a second any of you were actually solving problems with the symbolic functions or graphing functions of those calculators. I used both TI and HP in my undergrad days and they were a total PITA for anything other than standard calculations.
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May 26, 2021 06:19
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Cyril Sneer posted:I don't buy for a second any of you were actually solving problems with the symbolic functions or graphing functions of those calculators. I used both TI and HP in my undergrad days and they were a total PITA for anything other than standard calculations. They weren't that hard to use...
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May 26, 2021 06:23
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Yeah, that says more about whether you read the manual.
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sarcastx posted:I now have a fully working OG Nomad Jukebox (mfd 2000) and a way to get music onto it.
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but I do also have an image of some kid's whole 6GB HDD complete with awful pirated MP3s, complete with spammy metadata. 
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Cyril Sneer posted:I don't buy for a second any of you were actually solving problems with the symbolic functions or graphing functions of those calculators. I used both TI and HP in my undergrad days and they were a total PITA for anything other than standard calculations. I had a Casio graphing calculator and it was pretty convenient to graph a function and then be able to read out the Y value for a given X just by moving the cursor.
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May 26, 2021 12:23
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mobby_6kl posted:Aww awesome! I have a Zen Xtra that still works fine and has a somewhat useable battery even and of course all the original 128kbps music on it. I recall back in the day there was some software called Notmad Explorer or something that let you use it instead of the original Creative crap so that might be an alternative, but I never ended up paying for it. So any guide on how to get everything working on a modern PC would be great. I found an old Sansa that I had RockBox'ed way back in the day and the damned thing booted up and worked just fine, albeit with a lovely battery. Maybe something like that exists for yours?
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mobby_6kl posted:Aww awesome! I have a Zen Xtra that still works fine and has a somewhat useable battery even and of course all the original 128kbps music on it. I recall back in the day there was some software called Notmad Explorer or something that let you use it instead of the original Creative crap so that might be an alternative, but I never ended up paying for it. So any guide on how to get everything working on a modern PC would be great. The only way I was able to interact with my Zen Xtra was by writing scripts around libnjb's command-line tools: http://libnjb.sourceforge.net/. There's a GUI application called "gnomad2" but it crashes all the drat time; you're better off scripting. (the tools are packaged in Debian and Ubuntu as "libnjb-tools")
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Collateral Damage posted:I had a Casio graphing calculator and it was pretty convenient to graph a function and then be able to read out the Y value for a given X just by moving the cursor. TI-83, but yeah - and being able to get a list of the zeroes was a nice convenient way to check your work, too.
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Phonebooks are pretty obsolete. But have you thought how they were actually collated back before computers could just spit out a database query? This 1954 article from the Saturday Evening Post is an interesting read! http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/sixty_million_headaches.pdf
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May 27, 2021 14:02
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Chemmy posted:Sorry it was an HP 33S and I passed the EIT despite having never taken a class in either of the two sections I got to choose because. Likewise. Had to take it to graduate, but passing wasn't required. So I studied for classes that I had to pass to graduate instead. Then the EIT threw a bunch of fluids and thermo questions at me, neither of which were courses I had taken, and I passed that as well. As a bonus I work in a field where I will never, ever, ever need to be a PE.
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Humphreys posted:Phonebooks are pretty obsolete. But have you thought how they were actually collated back before computers could just spit out a database query? That bit about the gay bachelors probably meant something different back then.
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I love how "In Seconds" has it's own bullet point. WHAT CAN IT MEAN!?
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Absolutely how I imagine Eurythmics in their time off:
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Trabant posted:Absolutely how I imagine Eurythmics in their time off: 'Only Lovers Left Alive' was a pretty good movie.
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Bernard and Manny before they dyed their hair.
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Hey this is a pretty neat idea for retro projects! Creating a fake CRT front to get that delighful curved look.  https://jamhamster.wordpress.com/2020/11/30/making-a-crt-emulator-from-an-lcd/
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Humphreys posted:Hey this is a pretty neat idea for retro projects! Now I need one for 55-65 inch TVs.
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Humphreys posted:Hey this is a pretty neat idea for retro projects! Ooh now I can use this technique to make a replica of those cool TVA computers in Loki 
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Humphreys posted:Hey this is a pretty neat idea for retro projects! Ohh, this should be so good for projects like resurrecting old computers with integrated but broken CRT's like Macs, amazing!
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Imagined posted:Ooh now I can use this technique to make a replica of those cool TVA computers in Loki The production design and set decoration in that show is wonderful.
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barbecue at the folks posted:Ohh, this should be so good for projects like resurrecting old computers with integrated but broken CRT's like Macs, amazing!
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Dear Obsolete And/Or Failed Technology Thread, I am often a purveyor of vintage technology, I have had numerous rare and expensive technological items in my hands. There is a grey area where stuff isn't old enough to be "vintage" and " collectible", but could still be possibly useful. Case in point, I have a (used, in box) Iomega Super DVD All Format USB 2.0 External burner. a 4x DVD burner. lol The internet tells me "For 4x DVD-Rs, the data is written to the DVD at 5.28 MB/s or 42.24 Mbit/s. It takes approximately 15 minutes to write a 4x DVD." Still plenty useful, if you need an external CD Burner/Read or DVD reader but ooof, 15 minutes to burn a DVD. Guess it's still worth 10-15 bucks haha.
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Johnny Aztec posted:Dear Obsolete And/Or Failed Technology Thread, If I need to burn a DVD, I'm rarely in a hurry 
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3D Megadoodoo posted:If I need to burn a DVD, I'm rarely in a hurry You're welcome to have it. While Windows recognizes it as a cd-rom, gonna need some drivers and such annnd Iomega was bought out years ago. All the places that purported to have drivers all looked sketchy as gently caress, and I wasn't gonna even try and download. Guess I'll scrap it out. Shame really. The plastic bag on the burner was open, but the bags for the Power cord and USB cable were not. Oh, OF COURSE, the goddamn driver disc is missing. I hate waste, but not sure if tracking down drivers and doing a test CD and DVD burn is worth what little Ill get from it. Edit: lol the one least sketchy looking place wanted to try and open a ftp link to download it. yeah, ill pass on that Johnny Aztec has a new favorite as of 01:41 on Jun 20, 2021 |
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Johnny Aztec posted:You're welcome to have it. I already have an USB DVD-burner. Or possibly three, who knows.
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I have two of these beautiful monsters. I can burn DVDs as long as I can keep the hopper full. https://store.acronova.com/nimbie-usb-plus-bd-cd-dvd-autoloader-nb21.html
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Giant Metal Robot posted:I have two of these beautiful monsters. I can burn DVDs as long as I can keep the hopper full. I used to ahve a similar thing that had a printer built into it aswell. So it would burn then print and stack them for packaging all in one step, hopper held 100 or so. gently caress that piece of poo poo off. It was to fast for itself and would spit out the printed discs into the spindle when the ink was still tacky and stick all the discs together.
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Johnny Aztec posted:Edit: lol the one least sketchy looking place wanted to try and open a ftp link to download it. yeah, ill pass on that Out of curiosity why would it being an ftp link bother you?
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waffleman posted:Out of curiosity why would it being an ftp link bother you? You're walking down the street and find yourself saying " Gee, I could go for a taco right now" and a crack head looking fucker steps out of the alley, pulls a taco out of his jacket pocket, and offers it to you, are you really gonna eat that? No, you aren't. If Firefox is asking me " Hey what do you want to use to open this ftp link", when the website is already looking sketchy, I'm noping right out of there It's additional weirdness that is amplified. Why a FTP link? Why not just start a regular, normal download? The world may never know
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like 8 years ago in this thread there was a discussion about the keypad on ford vehicles being obsolete Their entirely new for 2022 hybrid still has it. 
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FTP is the regular normal download 
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3D Megadoodoo posted:FTP is the regular normal download Well then obviously whatever it was trying to pull wasnt. Never had Firefox ask me what I want to use for a FTP Link before on downloading.....loving anything. Here, I'll go back and find that website, and YOU download it and see what you find. http://www.driversdownload.org/driver,13129,Iomega_Super_DVD_4x_Firmware_A110_Windows_9xME2000XP_English.html There. That was the least sketchy website of the bunch. So sorry that I don't just blindly hit " Yes" to everything that pops up. Johnny Aztec has a new favorite as of 04:12 on Jun 20, 2021 |
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