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Rev. Bleech_ posted:I love poo poo like this. Let me shamelessly post my own from a decommissioned Voice of America transmitter site, abandoned in 2006 I feel bad for all the rust on this. I know it's old, but it would be cool if these things were kept clean, so they could be time capsules for the era. Like a museum. Oh well
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:I love poo poo like this. Let me shamelessly post my own from a decommissioned Voice of America transmitter site, abandoned in 2006 Is this the one near Maineville, OH? Nearby is 700-WLW which is a hugely powerful AM station as well. Blasting shithead dumbass right wing crap at 100’s of thousands of watts. Oh and sports
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:poo poo that was new when I was kid is nearly 60 years old so it's absolutely vintage. quote:Is this the one near Maineville, OH? Nearby is 700-WLW which is a hugely powerful AM station as well.
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Feb 11, 2023 01:36
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A YOUU AITCH EFF STATION!!!
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Speaking of which, when I was a kid, WLW was a hugely powerful TV station, on UHF channel 19. I still remember the jingle. Channel 19 in Cincinnati was/is WXIX.
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namlosh posted:That last one with the wireframe VHS tape is legit great You could say it's the Best... of the Worst ...or at least has made an appearance in that show's titles
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Xbox 360 is retrogaming now *gets dusted like Thanos just snapped*namlosh posted:Is this the one near Maineville, OH? Nearby is 700-WLW which is a hugely powerful AM station as well. Greenville, NC. Of the three VoA transmitting stations forming a triangle around the town, one is still in operation with a truly impressive antenna farm, one of them is now the ECU research campus, and the one pictured has been turned into an NC Wildlife area, presumably for dovehunting. EDIT: from an abandoned-place standpoint instead of an old tech one, they still had the duty rosters and poo poo posted inside the guard shack from their last month in operation Rev. Bleech_ has a new favorite as of 05:44 on Feb 11, 2023 |
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Dick Trauma posted:https://twitter.com/psychotronica_/status/1623862712756277248?s=20&t=SQbMjVNI7KJDntt0hRJ_cA That is rad as tits
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:Xbox 360 is retrogaming now *gets dusted like Thanos just snapped* My buddy brought his 360 over last weekend and I spent all week dancing with my kids using the Kinect. I think we're going to get our own now, I've never owned an Xbox product before.
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Get the Star Wars Kinect game, the lightsabre stuff is kinda poo poo but the other mini-games are great
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WithoutTheFezOn posted:Huh? WLW is an AM radio station in Cincinnati.
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Nocheez posted:My buddy brought his 360 over last weekend and I spent all week dancing with my kids using the Kinect. I think we're going to get our own now, I've never owned an Xbox product before. They just started emptying the on-line game store so get the games on disc or be quick. No DLC tho if the game has been scrubbed.
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Humphreys posted:That is rad as tits Videodrome poo poo
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Feb 11, 2023 20:42
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Dude is clutching the chair like he's about to get launched. https://twitter.com/RetroTechDreams/status/1624831463333167104?s=20&t=VuyEDm9tmhE7xG3E-z5kbA
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Arsenic Lupin posted:the Cool Ghoul. Oh wow… was that just a cinci thing or was he syndicated? You have no idea how disappointed I was when I found out that Ernest P Warrel did commercials for dairy companies other than Trauth
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Feb 12, 2023 20:09
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Jim Varney did a shitton of commercials And it's "Worrell"
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Dick Trauma posted:Dude is clutching the chair like he's about to get launched.
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Dick Trauma posted:Dude is clutching the chair like he's about to get launched. imagine seeing so many colors on the computerbox in 1983 I'd be bracing myself too
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verbal enema posted:Jim Varney did a shitton of commercials verbal enema posted:And it's "Worrell" This, i did not know
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namlosh posted:This, I knew. There’s actually a collection of them on Amazon Prime that I’ve seen Yeah I love watching them all in one go lol and I had to correct his name just because he is my favorite person to ever live I love him
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namlosh posted:This, I knew. There’s actually a collection of them on Amazon Prime that I’ve seen real heads know https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oImmlJ39mZ0
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Zopotantor posted:This is art.
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Flipperwaldt posted:Crazy how desks went from deep enough for a typewriter to deep enough for a laptop with this whole detour where they had to accommodate a crt monitor within my lifetime. For awhile, there were expensive desks with a slanted mount under the desktop, so that the monitor could be imbedded with a slight slant, with the bottom of the screen level with the desktop and the top a couple of inches higher. The idea was that you would put the monitor at the same angle you'd read a book. God, I coveted those. I searched, but can't find an image.
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Yeah, but tall (landscape-oriented tall) monitors absolutely wreck my neck.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:God, I coveted those. I searched, but can't find an image. Sounds like a variant of the downview or recessed monitor desks:  Pretty sure you can still buy them and then regret it immediately!
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Arsenic Lupin posted:For awhile, there were expensive desks with a slanted mount under the desktop, so that the monitor could be imbedded with a slight slant, with the bottom of the screen level with the desktop and the top a couple of inches higher. The idea was that you would put the monitor at the same angle you'd read a book. I was going to say this reminds me of those desks where they put the entire monitor underneath the surface and under glass, but in going to look that up I found that... https://smartdesks.com/mira-vista-downview-glass-top-computer-desks.html you can still buy them??? e; dammit the poster literally above me already mentioned that
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Trabant posted:Sounds like a variant of the downview or recessed monitor desks: My neck hurts just looking at this.
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ishikabibble posted:I was going to say this reminds me of those desks where they put the entire monitor underneath the surface and under glass, but in going to look that up I found that... What on earth would be the circumstances in which this would be a wise decision?
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Dicty Bojangles posted:What on earth would be the circumstances in which this would be a wise decision? Looks like they advertise them for classrooms/testing. I guess that way the row of people behind can't see the screen of the people in front of them.
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In high school we had the kind that has the CRT entirely inside the desk, leaving a blank flat surface. It was pretty handy because everyone had a computer, but had clear sight lines and plenty of room to do paper-based work.
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Gnoman posted:In high school we had the kind that has the CRT entirely inside the desk, leaving a blank flat surface. It was pretty handy because everyone had a computer, but had clear sight lines and plenty of room to do paper-based work. Yep, in college we had something similar to these, CRT embedded in the desk under glass so you still had the whole surface of the desk to use since most the time in class you were still referring to your books and taking handwritten notes. 
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Wifi Toilet posted:Yep, in college we had something similar to these, CRT embedded in the desk under glass so you still had the whole surface of the desk to use since most the time in class you were still referring to your books and taking handwritten notes. This still looks like THE FUTURE to me.
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Wifi Toilet posted:Yep, in college we had something similar to these, CRT embedded in the desk under glass so you still had the whole surface of the desk to use since most the time in class you were still referring to your books and taking handwritten notes. Oh yes, we had these sort of desks at our library when I was younger.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:This still looks like THE FUTURE to me. For real
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I've never seen these desks before and they're triggering my 'no no no do not rotate the computer there's moving parts in there!' instincts but for just the crt it's... Probably fine, right?
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What moving parts? The only time you really shouldn't tip a computer on it's side is if there's a CD in the CDRom drive, that's asking for some scratches. Do floppy drives have the same problem, I didn't think they did?
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The General posted:What moving parts? hard drives and their spinning platters
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Dicty Bojangles posted:What on earth would be the circumstances in which this would be a wise decision? I think sportscasters use these things too.
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