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Last Chance posted:yeah they make them on youtube now you're gonna confuse their poor brain 
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An editor slicing up videos means I wouldn't get to see his little cut ins where I can see what episode of DS9 he's on.
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Dec 14, 2022 05:52
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This post is itself the equivalent of the 90-minute video on a single piece of 20-year-old tech, but this topic really has had me thinking a lot over the years. Every time I watch, like, usually an LGR or TechMoan or 8-Bit Guy video on some random obscure piece of technology that I etiher want to buy or (far more likely) just want to understand a little bit to further add context to my insane retro computer/gadget lust, I almost always think to myself "that is all?" when the video ends after, you know, 15 minutes or whatever. LGR's early Oddware episodes where he tended to go on 5/10-minute tangents on the personalities and corporate intrigues in the background of the products were some of my favorite tech videos ever, and I think in general most videos should be longer, not shorter, if they are presenting information on older topics for which context can be ascertained and properly presented. That said, TechMoan's habit of saying "O.K. if you don't care about any of this nonsense just skip to 18:29 for the review" is also A-O.K. by me, I do not demand everyone approach their hobbies like I approached my dissertation research
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Arivia posted:Yep, it’s got some flaws but he considers it fit for purpose and a worthwhile buy. Which deck was this? I've been in the market for a good tape player for a few years but the one he used to recommend is impossible to get for a reasonable price now, and the few old ones I've found in second hand places around here all look like they were previously used in a cowshed.
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Dr. Quarex posted:This post is itself the equivalent of the 90-minute video on a single piece of 20-year-old tech, but this topic really has had me thinking a lot over the years. Every time I watch, like, usually an LGR or TechMoan or 8-Bit Guy video on some random obscure piece of technology that I etiher want to buy or (far more likely) just want to understand a little bit to further add context to my insane retro computer/gadget lust, I almost always think to myself "that is all?" when the video ends after, you know, 15 minutes or whatever. LGR's early Oddware episodes where he tended to go on 5/10-minute tangents on the personalities and corporate intrigues in the background of the products were some of my favorite tech videos ever, and I think in general most videos should be longer, not shorter, if they are presenting information on older topics for which context can be ascertained and properly presented. this does a great job of explaining my real viewpoints on poo poo. kim justice and poo poo like that are great bc i loooove the history of a computer from the people AND computer aspect. i dont care about the detailed tech specs necessarily, but how Karen Snowmeister figured out if you cut the bus size in half during BIOS load time it would decrease manufacturing costs? gently caress. yesss....
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Creature posted:Which deck was this? I've been in the market for a good tape player for a few years but the one he used to recommend is impossible to get for a reasonable price now, and the few old ones I've found in second hand places around here all look like they were previously used in a cowshed. https://youtu.be/WleZGWAebsY It’s not great but it’s the best out there and it’s alright for purpose. I expect he’d be a lot harder on something for home instead of portable use, which is also likely what you’re looking for.
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I got laid out by ‘rona the other week and caught up on like a year’s worth of our favorite gun loving dingus, 8BitGuy, all more or less in one go. His whole solar shed saga was deeply interesting.
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Dec 14, 2022 08:16
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I like the Apple DOS compatibility cards Remember to use the correct theme 
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Dec 14, 2022 10:51
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Powered Descent posted:Long videos that are mostly narration (like CRD, Technology Connections, etc.) pair very well with the speed control in the Youtube player. Most people talk slowly enough that they're perfectly understandable at double speed. Take this warning seriously I got into the habit of watching vids at double speed and now I can't stand watching anything at normal speed anymore. 
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Dec 14, 2022 12:34
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I listen to podcasts at like 1.7x but videos will always be 1x for me, no exceptions.
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Dec 14, 2022 12:35
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Ah yes, the z̵̛̫̤͓͈̞͈͓̫̮͈̝̐̍̈́͂̇̍͗̔͝͝a̴̡̽̅̍̀͐̈́͋̈͂̕͝͠ļ̵̪̻̱̘̌̌̌̑̓͠ḡ̸̯̪̲͛̍͘͠ǒ̶̡̝̬̺̘͔͎̯̞͓͍̮̳̆̌́̿̈́͆̾̏͗͐̅̕͠͝ ̶̧̡̢̫̹̭͍̗̲̉̀̕͝͠m̸̹̄̀̏͑̀͂̅͂̆̅͝à̵̼̫̠͓̈́͌̐̆̓̏̈́͠͝c̸̘̋̀̀
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The apple dos cards ruled, such a non-apple solution, all things considered
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axolotl farmer posted:Virtual PC? As others have surmised, its the apple dos compatability card (houdini 2) - a 486 and a mini Soundblaster on a pds card.
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I don't get the appeal, personally. It's not like a crazy new thing to do and it's several decades too late to stick it to the evil fruit empire.
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Dec 14, 2022 16:27
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Why would anyone want to tinker around with any of these old computers, truly a mystery
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History Comes Inside! posted:Why would anyone want to tinker around with any of these old computers, truly a mystery the thing I remember most about working with old computers is the hellishly long load times and constant crashing. nothing about that appeals to me today.
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Dec 14, 2022 16:56
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You missed the golden age of computing, if you turn on your BBC Microcomputer or Commodore 64 it boots in roughly 1 second. I mostly use my old macs to stare at After Dark screensaver modules and remembering the better times 
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Dec 14, 2022 17:06
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I'm primarily an Amiga fan these days. I had it as a kid, but it was mostly just a game machine. It's been fun learning how advanced the OS was.
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Dec 14, 2022 17:10
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Yeah but then you have to wait about 400 years for your C64 game to load from the tape
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lobsterminator posted:I'm primarily an Amiga fan these days. I had it as a kid, but it was mostly just a game machine. It's been fun learning how advanced the OS was. It's fun to think about how short the heyday of these systems were as an adult. I had the same I5-3570K system 2012-2019, which was about two years longer than the Amiga's commercial relevance. Or the C-64's, for that matter.
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Dec 14, 2022 17:15
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Same case as the Centris 610 I had in college. Absolutely loved that machine.
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History Comes Inside! posted:Yeah but then you have to wait about 400 years for your C64 game to load from the tape Or 397 years for your C64 game to load from disk, because Commodore somehow managed to make those slow as poo poo too
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By popular demand posted:I don't get the appeal, personally. Its an easier way to run both classic mac and old DOS games/software in a limited space. Bolo AND Starcon 2, all on one desk? Sold.
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I can only imagine trying to quit smoking when everything has a lighter and/or ash tray built in.
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Arc lighters that charge over USB are pretty common, it probably wouldn't be hard to integrate one into a phone case. Add a nail file just for the hell of it too.
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Welcome to the future.
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cool when you use that to light a bowl and melt the camera lens
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boar guy posted:cool when you use that to light a bowl and melt the camera lens that's not my camera lense
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LifeSunDeath posted:that's not my camera lense that's not my beautiful wife
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Waifu Radia posted:this does a great job of explaining my real viewpoints on poo poo. kim justice and poo poo like that are great bc i loooove the history of a computer from the people AND computer aspect. i dont care about the detailed tech specs necessarily, but how Karen Snowmeister figured out if you cut the bus size in half during BIOS load time it would decrease manufacturing costs? gently caress. yesss.... It just feels like a missed opportunity every time someone makes a short video on something I have been wondering about in the back of my mind for decades. Not to disparage the real work that goes into making a video of even decent length, but like a cool moment in a conversation that passes and you wish the conversation would go back to that, I would rather have another like 60 minutes of 8-Bit Guy Commodore content than learn the minutiae of how he hosed up his solar panel installation Warbird posted:His whole solar shed saga was deeply interesting.
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Clearly, the answer to my question:Trabant posted:am I the only one thinking he could use an outside editor? is a resounding "Yes, you are!" 
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History Comes Inside! posted:Yeah but then you have to wait about 400 years for your C64 game to load from the tape CRD mentioned something about this recently that I hadn't heard before: I've personally never seen a C64 hooked up to a Datasette, but he was saying that basically everyone in Europe with a C64 was loading stuff from tape, while over 90% of C64 installs in North America had a disk drive. Before we upgraded to the C64, my family did have a VIC-20 with the Datasette though.. My father bought stacks of pirated tapes from a coworker. Not sure what that operation was exactly but the tapes all had professional labels and colour inserts - the giveaway was that our Shamus tape for example used the artwork from the 2600 port of Berserk!
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I wonder if that has anything to do with how people were swapping software. In Europe, they had people that would blast out software on pirate radio stations. Set your radio to record onto a tape, someone broadcasts a bunch of noise, and then you have a new game.
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