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lobsterminator posted:Finnish national TV still has the teletext service in use also. It rocks. My father in law has a fancy new smartphone which he uses to access YLE Teksti-TV sports results. He knows the exact page codes so it’s quicker for him than looking it up online.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Speaking of hovercraft, I remember that short period of time in the... early 90s I wanna say, where *every* kid wanted those radio controlled hovercrafts they advertised on TV and were like $200 or so. I remember one kid near me had one and I saw him use it in the room where the local scouts would congregate at, and even at that age I realized it's something I would tire of extremely quickly. I still want a tyco fast traxx, but not hundreds of dollars want, which is the current eBay going rate.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Speaking of hovercraft, I remember that short period of time in the... early 90s I wanna say, where *every* kid wanted those radio controlled hovercrafts they advertised on TV and were like $200 or so. I remember one kid near me had one and I saw him use it in the room where the local scouts would congregate at, and even at that age I realized it's something I would tire of extremely quickly. I also got a gas(?)-powered control line plane one Christmas. My dad and uncle claimed they thought it might be too dangerous for me to use it safely (it probably was, metal bladed propeller and short string), but I never got the chance to lose fingats as they accidentally destroyed it on the maiden flight. I wasn't especially upset as even at that young age I figured it was a terrible idea.
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I think I’d get really dizzy with a control line plane.
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Casimir Radon posted:I think I’d get really dizzy with a control line plane. You probably wouldn't because they don't go that fast, so you're not spinning around quickly. I got one as a gift once, I think it was the Cox PT-19 Flight Trainer, and I was flying it with a couple friends in a nearby park. One of them was a couple years older and I let him start the propeller because I was afraid to touch it (it was plastic though, not metal thank god). I flew it a few times and then let the younger friend try it. He immediately pulled back on the aileron control too much and sent the plane vertically over his head in a spectacular arc and into the ground, destroying it. The rubber bands attaching the wing didn't save it either, so gently caress that design. Then I was stuck trying to play it off as no big deal since my friend felt really bad, but I was also kinda pissed he'd ruined our fun.
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Humphreys posted:I worked my way up to eventually jump to Jaycar and had a DSE book and transcribed all the component part numbers to Jaycar part numbers for a cross reference system. I worked at Dick Smith from about 2009 to late 2018 and I got to see the transition away from selling the components first hand. As a worker I was glad for it because the bins were a nightmare to keep in order, and there would also be some greybeard coming in 5mins before closing who wanted to spend 10 mins fossicking around for some resistors. As one of the few young guys who knew what the gently caress any of it was about thanks to my dad, I ended up having to help around that area a fair bit. In some ways I miss the whole thing about electronics as it would be a somewhat cool hobby to have, but what can you make these days which isn't a computer system?
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Xerxes17 posted:
I think that these days most people who get into electronics are musicians looking to put together their own gear. Some friends of mine are pretty handy with a soldering iron and do a fair bit of side money soldering effect pedals and fixing analog synths for other people. Once you get a grasp of how things work, you can start designing your own custom abominations for the deepest robot fart sounds no-one but you craves 
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Soldering keyboards together out of kits is a good way to jump in headfirst as well. You can still get most of the components from like, aliexpress that you could get from Radio Shack, but you don't get the same experience as just browsing the bins and asking "well what's this thing do?" Having a sort of pre-designed project to start with helps not only to give you a goal, but familiarizes you with the problems you might encounter along the way. Like, for example, if you poorly soldered a diode and a key doesn't work. Or if every single surface mount LED you tried to solder burnt to a crisp more or less the second the soldering iron went near the board (I have decided the keyboard is fine simply being functional, and it doesn't have to be a pretty lightshow).
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Anton Chigurh posted:You probably wouldn't because they don't go that fast, so you're not spinning around quickly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzib8rdq_x8&t=96s
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Haha, holy poo poo. I was referring to the old school class of CL planes that a kid would use, say circa 1978. Fast CL planes existed then too, but I remember only adults using them to do aerobatics or to dogfight each other, not spin around in a circle.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTsRD8QlYUY
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Pringles did a thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1375a8rW0k If you load the audio onto an actual ZX Spectrum, it will run a short demo
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Mobile phones - 70s British style. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMcChLsGKWc Sat nav - 70s British style. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qqnHtH1RAs Mister Kingdom has a new favorite as of 02:06 on May 1, 2022 |
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Almost made a 400€ offer on a NOS Commodore 16 but then I realized the train doesn't even go to where it's at and I'm sure as gently caress not gonna advance someone 400€ and then wait for the postal service to send it to Turkey. e: Saved from paying for more garbage by the capitalists getting to dismantle the welfare state and its infrastructure after the Soviet Union metamorphosed. Phew!
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Mister Kingdom posted:Mobile phones - 70s British style. Fantastic! Thats some good stuff there! Early car navigation was a whole thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCsGn4-uPHU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxnzF3ZlSXY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78w1FirWhSo There was another that used actual scrolls for each freeway, but I can't find a video right now.
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Humphreys posted:There was another that used actual scrolls for each freeway, but I can't find a video right now. "Hear ye, hear ye! Thou shalt turne thine motorre-wagonne to thine synistre in twelfe farthings way."
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New CRD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5ucImqdKbY
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The smell of a stack of CDR's...mmm. Slightly sweet, definitely toxic, but totally nostalgic.
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Whats the best way to write disk images to floppy on a vintage mac? I'm looking to use my SE/30 to write Mac OS install floppy's (floppies?), which if I recall are usually in BIN format? Is there software it needs, or can Mac OS 7.x natively do that?
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Whats the best way to write disk images to floppy on a vintage mac? I'm looking to use my SE/30 to write Mac OS install floppy's (floppies?), which if I recall are usually in BIN format? Diskcopy 6.3.3. It's an apple utility. You can find it at macintoshgarden.org
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Anyone recognize this cable/adapter? It’s an apple external scsi 8 pin daisychained to a db25 (scsi?) male daisychained to a db25 female, daisychained to a db9, daisychained to a 5-pin DIN It came from a box of apple cables, which is why I’m assuming scsi but I’m willing to be proven wrong 
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looks like the most universal serial modem cable ever made, no idea what the 5 pin DIN would be for.. maybe the C64 serial port? apple uses 8 pin mini din for serial and db25 for external scsi, it's definitely not a scsi cable since there's not enough pins on most of the connectors
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Doesn't cable splitting induce signal loss? That looks like it's being split 3 different times 
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D34THROW posted:Doesn't cable splitting induce signal loss? That looks like it's being split 3 different times Yes, but those runs are short enough that it shouldn't be a crisis. I'm guessing the five pin DIN is for MIDI and that's the swiss army knife of serial cables.
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I feel out of my depth, but could that be a patch cable to directly connect to a PC?
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It's complicated but generally the significant loss only happens if you have multiple receiving devices connected at once.
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My first thought was a PC/IIe compatibility card breakout cable, but it doesn’t look like OEM apple moldings for the plastic around the connectors.
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It seems like a a thing which would let you connect an ImageWriter or ImageWriter ii or a modem or something else to any apple device like an apple iic or iie or even a Macintosh. You have a DB25m, Db25F, De9f, din, mini din. Those were all common connectors on early apple devices. It would be interesting to see the pinout if you are able to document it
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r u ready to WALK posted:looks like the most universal serial modem cable ever made, no idea what the 5 pin DIN would be for.. maybe the C64 serial port? Apple IIc used a DIN serial port, so the any to any to serial device cable is probably accurate.
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As if I don't have enough relics around the house. I decided to purchase yet another Laserdisc Player. This time it was FREE ($30 shipping)! It's a fully featured player with auto rotate and AC3 audio, also karaoke.   The trick here is... it doesn't work. So now I am in real danger of having one dropped on my head in my sleep by the missus. I am now at 4 players and only 1 works. Time to work on it  This looks like some kinda of advanced unidentified mod I have to suss out...  Humphreys has a new favorite as of 11:11 on May 11, 2022 |
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Clip the red wire
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My dad used to like to dumpster dive and buy cheap poo poo from the flea market just to fix it. My bedroom TV for like 6 years wasn't working when he fished it out of the dumpster and he fixed it up (back in the days of CRTs). Once, it was a laserdisc player from the flea market. Once we were sure all the palmetto bugs were out of it and squished into our living room floor (in the middle of the drat night when I wake up and go out for a glass of water and see the fuckers skittering around), he fixed it up and we watched one (1) movie on it before getting rid of it.
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D34THROW posted:My dad used to like to dumpster dive and buy cheap poo poo from the flea market just to fix it. My bedroom TV for like 6 years wasn't working when he fished it out of the dumpster and he fixed it up (back in the days of CRTs). Once, it was a laserdisc player from the flea market. Lol. I had a scanner when I was about 13. Ran a few pages through it in the middle of the night and felt something tugging on my sock. Fuckin' wood roach. Whatever, grab her little rear end and throw her back outside. Review my pages, they were covered in digitized roach goo. Oh. Oh, no. Threw the scanner outside, too. Guess they liked the heat. You'd go out the house at night there and the tree trunks would undulating with the things. Harmless, and you'd normally only find a lost one inside the place. Still, it's a roach the size of my thumb!
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I am not sure whether I am more horrified by these sudden Hellraiser scene bug stories or the casual way they are being discussed
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Dr. Quarex posted:I am not sure whether I am more horrified by these sudden Hellraiser scene bug stories or the casual way they are being discussed Living up in the near arctic has some genuine and underappreciated benefits.
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Until summer and the mosquitos come out… I’d take wood roaches over Alaskan summer mosquitos any day
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Oslo is in a fairly comfortable "mostly neither" position, but Finnmark (the northernmost chunk of norway) does indeed have notoriously aggressive mosquitoes.
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Computer viking posted:Living up in the near arctic has some genuine and underappreciated benefits. Giant horseflies the size of your thumb!
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