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# ? Aug 29, 2023 03:50 |
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I have some 80s things Clockwork Sputnik has a new favorite as of 18:46 on Sep 1, 2023 |
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The Armatron in that first picture gave me memory recall so powerful it might have caused a stroke.
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# ? Sep 1, 2023 19:19 |
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Clockwork Sputnik posted:I have some 80s things That looks great. I had issues with having floppy drives so close to the monitor because of magnetic interference, but I was using the 1084 monitor and the newer floppy drives. Maybe they have less shielding because they are both smaller.
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# ? Sep 1, 2023 19:27 |
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sock it to me! posted:The Armatron in that first picture gave me memory recall so powerful it might have caused a stroke. Though in the end I'm sure I would have been bored with it after an hour, the display one at the local Radio Shack was so cool. A ROBOT ARM!
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# ? Sep 1, 2023 19:30 |
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Haven't thought about that thing in a while. Did it actually work?
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# ? Sep 1, 2023 22:05 |
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sock it to me! posted:The Armatron in that first picture gave me memory recall so powerful it might have caused a stroke. A friend had one and was disappointed they couldn't quite get it turn off its own power switch.
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# ? Sep 1, 2023 22:23 |
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stealie72 posted:
It is pretty boring and limited, unless you play it like a game. Set the timer and try to stack the balls on top of the pyramids. This is made increasingly fun in adulthood where you can introduce various inebriants into the game. lobsterminator posted:That looks great. I had issues with having floppy drives so close to the monitor because of magnetic interference, but I was using the 1084 monitor and the newer floppy drives. Maybe they have less shielding because they are both smaller. I think it's exactly that. I haven't had any issues with interference. The only issue I have with it is that I had the monitor recapped and the collar around the tube is ever so slightly to the left but I don't have the necessary amount of death wish to go playing around inside it. I'm about 2 weeks away from launching a full time Color64 BBS over IP on it. It'll run off of the original gear except for the addition of a sd2iec drive to increase speed and storage. The floppy drives will still used for modules. The vectrex is rad and I have the cartridge that has every single game on it ever released as well as some homebrew. The only issue with it is that the "beam" that draws the text is a bit wonky. Again, I have neither the skills nor knowledge to fix it. Apparently I really need a Colorado CRT person on speed dial. The guitar has an interesting story: quote:Christmas 1986 I got my first "real" guitar (as opposed to the 300 lb off brand pawnshop Les Paul tuxedo knockoff) - A Cort Effector, a weird instrument in its own right, with built-in 'effects' as they were, some kind of Kahler/Floyd Rose knockoff trem, synthetic fretboard, imported from Korea for Sears. I loved that thing -- I learned so much on it. The clock is from a store in the Beverly center called Heaven. I've converted it from florescent to UV LED And the red phone was one of my COVID hobbies where I converted it to Bluetooth. When it's on, and someone calls my cell, it rings and acts just like a landline. When you pick up the receiver you get a dial tone and can use the keypad to dial or press the * key and access Google assistant and voice dial or turn off lights, etc. EDIT: I forgot about this; Accutrac +6 turntable. Absolutely the most ambitious piece of 80s tech. You can stack up to six records on the spindle, and tell it via keypad or remote (the silver orb is the IR receiver), you want to play track 4 on record 2, and then track 3 and 6 on record 5 then all of record 1, etc. I believe it can store up to twenty five commands. Watching it work is amazing. That little silver pedestal raises up from the center and closes little arms on the spindle releasing the desired record (and those below it, leaving the remaining ones suspended, slowly descends back to the Platten and the arm scans the record for the spaces between tracks and returns to the selected track. It is EXTREMELY amazing to watch. And very very fickle. Clockwork Sputnik has a new favorite as of 02:07 on Sep 2, 2023 |
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One of my dentists in the early 90s had a Vectrex in his waiting room. Absolute highlight of the trip.
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# ? Sep 2, 2023 01:56 |
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Animal-Mother posted:Haven't thought about that thing in a while. Did it actually work? It was one of those things taht could be helpful but didn't need to be done as often as people think. VHS was an analog signal with no error correction, so dirt could theoretically affect the signal quality.
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# ? Sep 6, 2023 15:11 |
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Dirty heads definitely have an effect. Colors will start smearing first, then the picture starts breaking up, more lines and dropouts appear, and color is lost. But typically, video tape doesn't shed oxide as quickly as audio tape does. Many recorders from the 90s also had a built in tape cleaner (which by now is disintegrating because it's made out of foam). If you don't have a cleaning tape, you can reach the head drum very easily - you only need to remove the screws that hold the metal cover and lift it off. To clean, you can tear off a strip of printer paper (coffee filter paper is also OK), soak it in isopropanol or ethanol, and hold it against the head drum completely still. Then with your other hand, spin the drum, while only pushing the paper very slightly against the heads. Just enough to feel the heads pass along the paper. You'll probably find a faint mark on the paper after one revolution. After 2 or 3 it should not leave a mark anymore. Don't use paper towels, cloth, and especially don't use cotton swabs. With cotton swabs it's very easy to break off the highly fragile heads.
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# ? Sep 6, 2023 16:07 |
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LimaBiker posted:Dirty heads definitely have an effect. Colors will start smearing first, then the picture starts breaking up, more lines and dropouts appear, and color is lost. But typically, video tape doesn't shed oxide as quickly as audio tape does. Many recorders from the 90s also had a built in tape cleaner (which by now is disintegrating because it's made out of foam). In the 80's I'd run the head cleaner every few months but we rented movies constantly; and the fabric or whatever was in the cleaner tape that you put the alcohol or whatever on would get pretty dirty. I'm guessing few others were regularly cleaning their head.
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# ? Sep 6, 2023 19:52 |
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In 1980s-early 90s Alberta, pretty much every single oilfield company handed out stickers for advertising with their logos and stuff like the ones in the top left, and they used to be everywhere. Pretty much every drive-thru window in oilfield towns were plastered with them. One of the big events each year, the local chambers of commerce would put on a trade fair, where a bunch of companies in town would have a booth to show off what they do. There would be food stands and random carnival type games and demonstrations of different stuff and every booth would have swag and everybody would just go around collecting random poo poo to basically take home and throw out. I don't know if that was a thing everywhere or just in small town Alberta. It's not quite a County fair type thing, as we had one of those as well. Powershift has a new favorite as of 20:58 on Sep 12, 2023 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT_QRKfv8H4
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# ? Sep 12, 2023 22:26 |
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Powershift posted:
I had a double-sided version of that same case. Held sixty cassettes, every one a 90-minute Maxell UD-XLII. Some fucker stole it out of my '69 Cutlass in 1991.
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# ? Sep 13, 2023 01:08 |
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https://i.imgur.com/Va1HxzD.mp4
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https://twitter.com/1980sRewind/status/1703151377533243414?s=20
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# ? Sep 17, 2023 01:07 |
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They turned Grand Theft Auto: Vice City into a TV show?!
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# ? Sep 17, 2023 01:38 |
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And a movie! But they called it Scarface? Weird
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# ? Sep 17, 2023 15:40 |
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Phy posted:One of my dentists in the early 90s had a Vectrex in his waiting room. Absolute highlight of the trip. We had a Vectrex in '84 or so. Some of the games were surprisingly fun and challenging. Cosmic Chasm and Mine Storm in particular. And four buttons on the controller!
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# ? Sep 22, 2023 23:46 |
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These definitely belong here
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# ? Sep 23, 2023 23:20 |
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Can confirm this is accurate.
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# ? Sep 24, 2023 02:14 |
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Can confirm this is accurate. Just needs a haze of cigarette smoke.
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# ? Sep 24, 2023 05:18 |
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The walls in the "what it was actually like" picture were originally white.
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# ? Sep 24, 2023 15:31 |
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CitizenKain posted:Just needs a haze of cigarette smoke. Definitely. Also a bookcase where the edges of the pages (up to 1cm) are yellow from absorbing those cancer sticks.
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# ? Sep 24, 2023 16:40 |
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maybealabia posted:These definitely belong here With bonus Robot Dad!
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# ? Sep 25, 2023 20:09 |
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I don't recognize what the lower-left is.
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# ? Sep 25, 2023 20:29 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:I don't recognize what the lower-left is. The Secret of NIMH, Don Bluth's first animated feature. It had some creepy and intense stuff.
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# ? Sep 25, 2023 20:37 |
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I’ve never seen NIMH or Watership Down but I still can’t watch Who Framed Roger Rabbit? because of that scene. Well, I’d have to fast forward through it.
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# ? Sep 25, 2023 22:18 |
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Killer robot posted:The Secret of NIMH, Don Bluth's first animated feature. It had some creepy and intense stuff. I haven't seen NIMH but Bluth definitely reused that animation for the Grand Duke of Owls in Rock-A-Doodle.
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# ? Sep 25, 2023 22:24 |
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:I haven't seen NIMH but Bluth definitely reused that animation for the Grand Duke of Owls in Rock-A-Doodle. Thanks for the brain blast from my childhood there.
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# ? Sep 25, 2023 22:35 |
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:I haven't seen NIMH but Bluth definitely reused that animation for the Grand Duke of Owls in Rock-A-Doodle. Long after the names of all my family have faded from my mind, I'll be sitting and giggling and mumbling "adequate pipe" from a movie I probably last watched in like 1994.
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# ? Sep 25, 2023 23:53 |
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I will argue that The Plague Dogs is more traumatizing than the Dip scene and Watership Down combined. It’s been nearly forty years and I still flinch at reading the Wikipedia summary.
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# ? Sep 26, 2023 02:05 |
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Secret of NIMH has some all-time cobweb animation.
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# ? Sep 26, 2023 02:56 |
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Perhaps not as traumatizing as some, but definitely baby's first "Game of Thrones"...
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# ? Sep 26, 2023 09:07 |
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Can confirm this is accurate. This whole house used to look like that. Bathrooms, garage, closets, even the finished part of the attic. This room and the garage are the only rooms where they didn't paint over the wood, change out the doors, and replace the wood blinds.
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# ? Sep 26, 2023 13:33 |
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The real tragedy is that they replaced all the brass carriage light sconces with ceiling tits. Bonus whole-house combination radio and intercom hole. Extra bonus swiveling telecom plug. That's the exit for in-wall conduit with (right now) two wire telephone line running through it. The Google Fiber installers were able to use some of that conduit to run fiber-optic. Notice the newer (shuttered!) power plugs. Those are there because most of the house was originally wired with aluminum. Hence, the removal of the intercom.
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# ? Sep 26, 2023 13:43 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2LTL8KgKv8
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# ? Sep 27, 2023 15:00 |
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Circa 1989:
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# ? Sep 27, 2023 18:42 |
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Gonz posted:Circa 1989: gently caress i thought those stores were so classy
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