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Pham Nuwen posted:My parents have always, as long as I can remember, referred to the remote as "the beast-minder". I have no idea where that came from. lol
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My grandparents called it the VTR, which I’m assuming wasn’t super common based on this discussion. 
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Pham Nuwen posted:My parents have always, as long as I can remember, referred to the remote as "the beast-minder". I have no idea where that came from. This is amazing.
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Dewgy posted:My grandparents called it the VTR, which I’m assuming wasn’t super common based on this discussion. VTR is mentioned in The Buggles 'Video Killed The Radio Star' too, I think it's video tape recorder and an older tech. But I may be totally wrong.
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EdBlackadder posted:VTR is mentioned in The Buggles 'Video Killed The Radio Star' too, I think it's video tape recorder and an older tech. But I may be totally wrong.
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I've heard VTR in a professional context, but personally it was a VCR / tape recorder and tapes, at least in late 80s early 90s oregon
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Dewgy posted:My grandparents called it the VTR, which I’m assuming wasn’t super common based on this discussion. I've never heard this term used outside of a TV production control room, it was the thing we used to record or cue Betacam and DV tapes. edit: lol I just remembered we used these things for linear editing too and would gently caress with field recordings on spare tapes like a kind of analog YouTube poop. I was a very professional TD R.L. Stine has a new favorite as of 22:45 on Jun 25, 2022 |
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Jun 25, 2022 22:27
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Whatever the heck thing this is
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Grumio posted:Whatever the heck thing this is A dedicated digital photo viewer.
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Grumio posted:Whatever the heck thing this is it's an eFilm PicturePAD of course
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Grumio posted:Whatever the heck thing this is please send this to cathoderaydude on youtube thank you
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Honestly any of them would probably enjoy it. CRD, Techmoan, even LGR.
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Cojawfee posted:Honestly any of them would probably enjoy it. CRD, Techmoan, even LGR. don't send to LGR, the guy has a warehouse of stuff now that he doesn't have time to deal with.
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LifeSunDeath posted:don't send to LGR, the guy has a warehouse of stuff now that he doesn't have time to deal with. Contact the people first to find out if they are even interested/don't already have one.
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Send it to the Ate poo poo Guy. The address is easy: your nearest rubbish bin.
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Keep it and make your own Youtube video about it. None of those guys need any charity 
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Grumio posted:Whatever the heck thing this is This review doesn't really explain what this is for, but holy gently caress were these things expensive when they were new: https://www.pcmag.com/archive/delkin-efilm-picturepad-30956
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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:This review doesn't really explain what this is for, but holy gently caress were these things expensive when they were new: quote:20GB and a 30GB version ($549 and $649 list, respectively), and Delkin's card adapters, available from the company's Web site, currently sell for $49. This fall, Delkin will offer a 40GB version for less than $700. dayum, I know I had a laptop that was cheaper than that around that time.
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Gaius Marius posted:You pronounce it as a word. It sounds like Vicar This reminds me of another pet peeve where in the past 10 years, I started hearing people call the NES a "ness" and the SNES a "Super ness" or "sness".
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Well that's clearly wrong. It's an Ess-ness.
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Lurking Haro posted:Contact the people first to find out if they are even interested/don't already have one. Clint is also kind enough to get back to you right away with whether or not he's interested. I've sent him some oddball Australian edutainment stuff before. roffels posted:This reminds me of another pet peeve where in the past 10 years, I started hearing people call the NES a "ness" and the SNES a "Super ness" or "sness". When I was a kid it was "Nintendo" and "Super Nintendo" respectively. NES and SNES seem to be more recent, at least in my part of Australia. Bargearse has a new favorite as of 02:12 on Jun 27, 2022 |
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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:This review doesn't really explain what this is for, but holy gently caress were these things expensive when they were new: it's for carrying around and transferring your photos to. CF card were only like 32mb back then which was a decent amount of pictures, but what if you had more.
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Rap Game Goku posted:it's for carrying around and transferring your photos to. CF card were only like 32mb back then which was a decent amount of pictures, but what if you had more. So basically a self contained little storage device / card reader you dump your photos to, with a screen so you can check what's on it? That does actually sound like it could have been useful.
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That brief period where flash media existed but had much less capacity and was a lot more expensive per-megabyte than laptop harddrives. The heyday of the original iPod. In fact I bet you the elevator pitch for this thing was something like "It's like an iPod, but for photos!"
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roffels posted:This reminds me of another pet peeve where in the past 10 years, I started hearing people call the NES a "ness" and the SNES a "Super ness" or "sness". It was always n-e-s or s-n-e-s in my neck of the woods, I've only heard ness online.
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Rap Game Goku posted:it's for carrying around and transferring your photos to. CF card were only like 32mb back then which was a decent amount of pictures, but what if you had more. I remember paying out the nose for 1 or 2GB CF cards back in 2006 when I got my first DSLR.. Then I ordered a $35 high-speed 128GB SD card yesterday I still have a 128MB CF card somewhere for my first digital camera, a nikon I bought in 2002.
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Lol I was cleaning my desk the other day and found the 4mb CF card from my parents first ever digital camera.
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roffels posted:This reminds me of another pet peeve where in the past 10 years, I started hearing people call the NES a "ness" and the SNES a "Super ness" or "sness". 'ness' is wrong however 'nezz' is correct and normal
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Groke posted:Somewhere there is probably a Commodore 64 still running some important equipment. It's not quite a 64, but this came up in a Reddit thread and I thought of you. https://www.woodtv.com/news/grand-rapids/1980s-computer-controls-grps-heat-and-ac/ For some thread content, the item that started that thread, a punch card-driven school bell timer that runs continuously: 
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SkyeAuroline posted:It's not quite a 64, but this came up in a Reddit thread and I thought of you. guessing these aren't the most critical rollers: 
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LifeSunDeath posted:guessing these aren't the most critical rollers: Looking at the roller it looks like the punch paper actually rides on the inner area of each roller and the edges are just to keep the paper centered. As long as most of them aren't dinged it shouldn't be able to shift enough on one bad roller to come off track. Based on the hinged mechanism and the damage I'm betting something got trapped in between the roller edge and the lip of the cabinet or the hinges sagged enough the door got stuck. Someone then proceeded to hulk the door open and crunched that roller. Betting replacements are discontinued long ago lol..
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Arivia posted:please send this to cathoderaydude on youtube thank you I'll see if he's interested. Does anyone have an email for him?
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Goddamn, I never knew about this. Or if I did I've completely forgotten it along with how to play the violin and that one homeroom class where a kid smashed my head into the edge of a desk. The Poqet PC (get it?). A completely static variant of the 8088 running MS-DOS 3.3 and some utilities on ROM. Power management is so aggressive that it powers down the CPU between keystrokes. Didn't even have an AC adapter, just runs for weeks on 2 AA batteries.
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I looked up some other pictures and that sweet black red case with color matched accessories is pretty slick.   That floppy drive is great.
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Shitstorm Trooper posted:
Side question, what advancements made it possible to go from chonky rear end cables (or 40/80 wire IDE ribbons) like for that floppy drive, to our svelte little 4 conductor usb cables? Computing power and extra cycles allowing us to slam so much data into one or two data lines? Advanced noise filtering so interference isn't as prominent?
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Arrath posted:Side question, what advancements made it possible to go from chonky rear end cables (or 40/80 wire IDE ribbons) like for that floppy drive, to our svelte little 4 conductor usb cables? Semiconductors shrinking in size allowed for clock speeds in the GHz range, which is required for these high speed serial connections. Operating voltages went lower as size shrank. This supports both lower power consumption and noise tolerance.
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Shitstorm Trooper posted:I looked up some other pictures and that sweet black red case with color matched accessories is pretty slick. this is incredible
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Shitstorm Trooper posted:I looked up some other pictures and that sweet black red case with color matched accessories is pretty slick. I remember seeing these in magazines circa 1990. That design is impressively '80s; it's downright Cyberdyne.
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Phanatic posted:Goddamn, I never knew about this. Or if I did I've completely forgotten it along with how to play the violin and that one homeroom class where a kid smashed my head into the edge of a desk. Kinda reminds me of the lovely Psion Series 5.  I loved this thing in high school in the 90s. Could run a Spectrum emulator on it too for (very blurry) retro gaming on the go.
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