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I guess this is now a relics question as these were popular on SA about 10+ years ago and I can’t find a relevant thread anymore. Does anyone else have one of those Grundig/Elton FM/Shortwave radios that were a pretty cheap way of getting into SW? I just dug mine out from storage but it appears the plastic is breaking down a bit as some tech stuff tends to do. Anyone else still got theirs, and is it doing the same? E: ah yeah not just me then. I’ll probably just deal with it, the front isn’t as bad as the back so shouldn’t have to deal with it too much. https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurrad...utm_name=iossmf EL BROMANCE has a new favorite as of 18:51 on Jun 22, 2022 |
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Yeah, it’s just the soft touch plastic coating breaking down.
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Jun 22, 2022 20:21
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Engineer: How is this going to hold up in 10 years? 80's executive: (sniffff) Are you loving joking right now? Listen, Casio is eating our lunch and THIS is how you respond?? I'm deleting you from my personal organizer
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Jun 22, 2022 21:08
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Here's a BBC look at really old-rear end TV. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaYe1eLFCxw
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Jun 25, 2022 22:56
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So, retroware's latest video about BIOS Patcher seems like a good watch for anyone messing with old PCs. This is the tool he used previously to patch Pentium III support into an old PII-only board https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwZT40sRMzM
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Jun 25, 2022 23:30
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The only thing he got wrong is when he said they'd have headphone jacks. 
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Jun 26, 2022 02:11
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'the size will be determined by what's convenient to hold' is also a miss.
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Jun 26, 2022 02:27
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Both of those things were true a few years from when he wrote that. It's not his fault they got more cumbersome and less useful over time.
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Mandoric posted:'the size will be determined by what's convenient to hold' is also a miss. Kinda? Like it's determined by inscrutable corporate machinations and practical trade-offs but a smart phone motherboard is maybe the size of a human thumb, roughly, so it really isn't determined by any technical limitation at least.
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My first smart phone was half an inch thick, smaller than a deck of cards, and it had a headphone jack, slide out keyboard and a trackball Every phone since has been a disappointment
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Jun 26, 2022 05:39
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Mandoric posted:'the size will be determined by what's convenient to hold' is also a miss. I don't think so. I have a Z Flip 3 and it's definitely seems like it leans towards being convenient to hold rather than having a wider screen. It's narrow enough that I can use it with one hand, but there are times when I wish it was just a bit wider to display something better.
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flavor.flv posted:My first smart phone was half an inch thick, smaller than a deck of cards, and it had a headphone jack, slide out keyboard and a trackball First gen Droid? One of my professors got a box of like 30 of them for some reason shortly after they came out. He loaned them out to any student who wanted to try writing apps, but writing Android apps really sucks so I mostly just spent a month playing around with it before going back to my flip-phone for the next year or two.
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My first smartphone was an HTC TyTN, and I loved that thing. I still kind of miss slide out keyboards to be honest. Then I had the TyTN 2 which was the same thing but the screen could tilt when you slid the keyboard out. Game changing poo poo.
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I think I had a TyTN, HTC were notorious for having a billion different names for their 6 different handsets. I liked it at the time for sure, the slide out keyboard was great and when the iPhone was announced it made me sneer a bit (despite being an iPod and Mac user by that point) that my HTC could do anything it did plus a million things more... but yeah the actual use of the phone blew my HTC out the water and by the time the 3G was announced I jumped ship and never returned. The USB port falling out of my 3 month old HTC definitely didn't convince me to stick with them, that thing spent as much time in the repair shop as it did in my pocket.
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Humphreys posted:You aren't going to find a PAL DV Deck without bidding against me sorry. I have a lust for my old editing stuff, and a hatred for my old employer which I know has at least 4 HD-DV Decks stashed away that won't sell online cos they are old fuddy duddies.  I ended up grabbing one on eBay for just under $200 in the end, just set it up tonight and all is working fine (a relief given my last foray into FireWire gear did not). Now to capture 160 tapes. Why am I doing this to myself… As much as I’d have liked one with a door still attached, if feels like the right of passage to have it missing. Hell there’s one on eBay right now with 10 hours of drum use and the door is missing. The door does look cool tho! EL BROMANCE has a new favorite as of 05:33 on Jun 28, 2022 |
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even when they come with the door, the hinges will still be broken with the magnets being the only thing holding the door in place... at my first job in the 00s we had a bunch of these where our tech dude paid to switch the firewire ports to 6pin for whatever reason, which led to the firewire controllers dying all the time. he always blamed people hotswapping the cable but imo they just did a poo poo job on the mod
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I’m not gonna lie, seeing the 4 pin did get an ‘ugggh’ out of me. I know the unit doesn’t need the power provided by the extra two pins, but that’s a connector that’s so loose just looking at it can cause it to fall out. And of course I had to laugh because I forgot the Mac Mini only has an 800 port and I have every combination of cable except 800 to 4 pin. So naturally it’s now being daisy chained through an old hdd, because why not.
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flavor.flv posted:My first smart phone was half an inch thick, smaller than a deck of cards, and it had a headphone jack, slide out keyboard and a trackball Smartphone form factor peaked with the iPhone 5/SE 
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axolotl farmer posted:Smartphone form factor peaked with the iPhone 5/SE I hope they don't kill the Mini series
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I have a 12 mini and I like the form factor but I swear it’s giving me an rsi because my giant mitts have to contort so much to use it.
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I can’t live with those tiny screens anymore, I’ve been spoilt by giant phones. I don’t have big hands but I’ve learned to love the popsocket which makes pretty much any large phone infinitely more one-handable.
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I miss flip phones.
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LifeSunDeath posted:I miss flip phones. They still exist but I haven't found one that doesn't run Android or KaiOS (apparently KaiOS is pretty loving dire) and can act as a wifi hotspot.
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Pham Nuwen posted:They still exist but I haven't found one that doesn't run Android or KaiOS (apparently KaiOS is pretty loving dire) and can act as a wifi hotspot. can you imagine whipping this bad boy out:  customer reviewer knows what's up:  poo poo goes so hard I can't even believe everyone doesn't have one.
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Gotta admit, I like the physical back, home and menu buttons at the top of the keypad. I really miss having those
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Me in 1998 if I had unlimited money.
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An SGI big-rig once came on campus and parked itself between the student houses and the computing lab, and supermodels hung out the trailer door to lure the students in and see all the cool gear and drop out and work for SGI. There were monitors arranged around the interior with flight simulators much like that
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Data Graham posted:An SGI big-rig once came on campus and parked itself between the student houses and the computing lab, and supermodels hung out the trailer door to lure the students in and see all the cool gear and drop out and work for SGI. There were monitors arranged around the interior with flight simulators much like that
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Bargearse posted:Me in 1998 if I had unlimited money. I bet he still only got 5fps while running that.
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Carth Dookie posted:I bet he still only got 5fps while running that. I think X Plane used to support multi computer networking to run setups like this. Each computer would run 2 or 3 monitors.
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Powered Descent posted:The only thing he got wrong is when he said they'd have headphone jacks.
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SubG posted:Yeah, the Magic Bus. They were using it to show off the Onyx back in like '94 or '95 and the flight sim doing 3d with real-time texture mapping was absolutely loving mind-blowing, like literally never seen poo poo like that before. But around that time a bunch of guys left SGI to found 3Dfx, and a couple years after that PC 3d accelerators were a thing, and suddenly everybody could do it. Oh I remember that: 
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Lowen SoDium posted:I think X Plane used to support multi computer networking to run setups like this. Each computer would run 2 or 3 monitors. Didn't some game(s) on the Sony Play Station home computer system allow you to hook up two systems (with two television sets, two copies of the game, etc.) to play head-to-head? I'm thinking Wipeout but could be dead wrong. e: Wait, did I learn about it ITT just recently? Anyway  ee: 
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Krazy Ivan could do it too, that’s the only game I remember having that had it on the box. I never knew anyone who had a link cable though.
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Yeah me neither. Now I really want one of those tiny Trinitrons.
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History Comes Inside! posted:Krazy Ivan could do it too, that’s the only game I remember having that had it on the box. you're triggering a memory, I had a mech game right before I got my playstation, on 32x:  and it sucked lol!  I probably put like 5 hours into this game before I just got forever bored.
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I played that exact game like a week ago and yeah it’s bad Did the 32x have any killer games? I just dumped the whole romset onto my retropie arcade machine because it’s 2022 and space is infinite, and I’ve been picking things at random but nothing really wows.
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