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Trabant posted:Some excellent Those are indeed loving excellent. Thanks for posting that. Let me shamelessly post some old control boards I've shot:    
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Jan 23, 2023 18:28
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Makes me wanna play INFRA again.
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My home will only truly be smart once it has a control panel like those.
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I don't have pictures, but it was cool to look at Hanford's B-Reactor control panel and instrumentation and check out Enrico Fermi's small adjacent office
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Jan 23, 2023 19:14
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Fantastic photos! This one in particular: seems like "Pripyat, two years later."
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I really love this Chernobyl video, it features explanations by a guy who actually started work at the plant after the famous accident. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRHnApxVFQU
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Oh, that would've actually been really awesome to have in the days of low screen resolution and horizontal scroll bars!
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Jan 24, 2023 17:55
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MULTI-WHEEL SCROLLING??!!
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ah, the fabled dick sucking factory. Tragic to see it finally shut down.
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There really wasn't much choice, once your mom retired.
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Dick Trauma posted:
If one was for coarse and the other for fine scrolling (or fast/slow), that would've been... clever, even possibly useful?
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Phanatic posted:There really wasn't much choice, once your mom retired. the hard times are over
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The buttons are hard-coded to move forward or back through the Windows color schemes.
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Dick Trauma posted:The buttons are hard-coded to move forward or back through the Windows color schemes. Hot dog (stand)
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i don't think this thing is "failed" but maybe obsolete in a certain sense. whatever it is, it's fukken badass. https://twitter.com/kenshirriff/status/1616849024656572416?s=20&t=4lqP5d-YZuFnaEktn_x6Xw
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My mom asked me what the third button on her trackpad was for and then flat out refused to believe it was a thing that existed when I told her it was for middle clicking. Just a couple of months ago.
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uber_stoat posted:i don't think this thing is "failed" but maybe obsolete in a certain sense. whatever it is, it's fukken badass. Blog post for this (if you don't like reading on twitter): https://www.righto.com/2023/01/inside-globus-ink-mechanical-navigation.html
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Dick Trauma posted:
funny enough, not the last time it was attempted 
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I want TWO mouses like how Alias Wavefront experimented with about 20 years ago with their 3D modelling and animation software. Left mouse moved your palette of tools and your right was used to click-through the selected tool and manipulate.
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Oh poo poo, it's actually a THING now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_OJhuO3GZM
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Shorpy remains an excellent source of highly detailed photos of old tech. https://www.shorpy.com/node/26954?size=_original#caption quote:April 1942. "Chicago, Illinois -- Mr. Thomas Dorsey, radio technician, in William H. Green's radio and electrical store. Mr. Dorsey is an expert radio repairman and studied at the Tilden technical school in Chicago." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano. 
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arsenicCatnip posted:funny enough, not the last time it was attempted "Ohhh shiiiiiittt. He's mastered drift scrolling"
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Humphreys posted:Oh poo poo, it's actually a THING now: i remember really wanting two mouse pointers so two people could use Rebirth RB-338 simultaneously or one person could tweak two knobs at once
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Crime on a Dime posted:i remember really wanting two mouse pointers so two people could use Rebirth RB-338 simultaneously or one person could tweak two knobs at once you can get right out of this thread with this filth!
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Crime on a Dime posted:i remember really wanting two mouse pointers so two people could use Rebirth RB-338 simultaneously or one person could tweak two knobs at once I wanted 2 mouse pointers so I could cheat at windows 3.1 solitaire by lifting a card with one mouse and then getting the card under it with the other.
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Phanatic posted:Those are indeed loving excellent. Thanks for posting that.  found this spraypainted on some of the leftover machinery at the Teton Dam back in 2021
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Xerol posted:I wanted 2 mouse pointers so I could cheat at windows 3.1 solitaire by lifting a card with one mouse and then getting the card under it with the other. Would this even work or were you just using kid logic to assume it would work?
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Phanatic posted:Those are indeed loving excellent. Thanks for posting that. I love poo poo like this. Let me shamelessly post my own from a decommissioned Voice of America transmitter site, abandoned in 2006       Sadly the main building is kept locked and inaccessible
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Crime on a Dime posted:i remember really wanting two mouse pointers so two people could use Rebirth RB-338 simultaneously or one person could tweak two knobs at once This, exactly. I was one of those nerds that actually printed out the manual for it and read it.
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Cojawfee posted:Would this even work or were you just using kid logic to assume it would work? It was 100% kid logic, to the point when I started learning how to program (in VB3) a year or so later I spent far too long trying to figure out how to get multiple pointers on the screen.
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Xerol posted:I wanted 2 mouse pointers so I could cheat at windows 3.1 solitaire by lifting a card with one mouse and then getting the card under it with the other.
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Or just use physical cards and invent exceptions to the rules on the fly!
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By popular demand posted:Or just use physical cards and invent exceptions to the rules on the fly! But that reduces the number of cursors when we’re trying to rear end them
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Xerol posted:I wanted 2 mouse pointers so I could cheat at windows 3.1 solitaire by lifting a card with one mouse and then getting the card under it with the other. Settlers 2, a city-builder game from 1995, had a multiplayer mode that was split-screen, and both players had to use their own mouse.
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