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monolithburger posted:The whole thing looked cool as gently caress though  I was a die-hard Amiga user at the time, so I just sold it. No idea how good it was.
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GazChap posted:back in 2001 GazChap posted:I was a die-hard Amiga user at the time  I had an a1200 with a phase5 blizzard 060, ethernet, gigs of drive space etc. and even I thought of it as a retro system by 2001. Remarkable. No shade, that's just impressive. What was your rig at the time? PPC with a PCI daughterboard?
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dobbymoodge posted:I had an a1200 with a phase5 blizzard 060, ethernet, gigs of drive space etc. and even I thought of it as a retro system by 2001. Remarkable. No shade, that's just impressive. What was your rig at the time? PPC with a PCI daughterboard? By the time I sold it, the spec was: Commodore (as in, not Escom) A1200, moved to an Eyetech tower case Blizzard 1260 68060@50MHz 16MB RAM (or might have been 32, can't remember, I never used it all that's for sure) 80GB HD CD-RW Mediator PCI daughterboard, fitted with: Voodoo 3 3000 SoundBlaster Ethernet I never did upgrade to PowerPC, although I did manage to acquire a Blizzard 604e(?) PPC accelerator with an '060 on board, but it was cheap because the PPC processor was hosed, and I could never raise the additional funds needed to get Blizzard to repair it.
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Why would an old amiga be worth a fortune now? Just as a collector's item or some other reason?
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I guess it's a function of quantity x condition, working famiclones are probably quite common and therefore inexpensive but a late PowerPc in good condition...
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AFewBricksShy posted:Why would an old amiga be worth a fortune now? Just as a collector's item or some other reason? But yeah, I sold that entire set up for... I think, £300 back in 2003. Nowadays, just the basic computer itself (without all the upgrades, and recapped) would be closer to £400, the 68060 accelerator card would potentially be around £750-£1,000 (mostly due to rarity I imagine) and the various other components would be valuable too -- obviously the SIMM, hard drive, CD-ROM and PCI cards would probably be close to worthless though.
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AFewBricksShy posted:Why would an old amiga be worth a fortune now? Just as a collector's item or some other reason? Amigas are a very active retro group. There's an active scene and they are getting more rare. I have a couple of Amigas I bought around 2015 for around $150 a piece. They would probably sell for $400-$500 now easily.
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I just looked at the SA Mart ratings thread, and I sold FF3 for $24 shipped, 20 years ago.
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Laserdisc scores of the day. Got em both for $15 total.
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GazChap posted:I finally sold it in 2003, although I regret it somewhat as it would be worth a small fortune now. Holy poo poo an 060 accelerator I picked up my A1200 with all the Workbench 3.0 disks, PSU and mouse for AU$200 in 2003. Now the model number stands for how much people sell one in dollars these days
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Oh teen me would be so into this, both stylish and practical!
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That's cool as gently caress but at the same time I feel like I'd break one of the wires five minutes after getting it.
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Are the earbuds hard wired, or do you still have to plug them into the jack?
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tribbledirigible posted:Are the earbuds hard wired, or do you still have to plug them into the jack? I can't see a consumer-facing way to both get the end of the headphones out of that hole, nor get them back in once you got them out. My guess is they are hardwired but the headphone jack is there to use your own headphones if you'd like.
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E: you could open the lid. It's the WM-51 and being from 1987 it long predates the ~2001 Sony fad of selling Fontopia earphones coming in winding cases that I'm confusing this with. Apparently these are hardwired after all, sorry. Flipperwaldt has a new favorite as of 17:04 on Feb 17, 2024 |
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It still bugs me a little that audio cabling and aircraft lighting have opposite conventions. Red means right side audio, but red also means left wingtip.
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Powered Descent posted:It still bugs me a little that audio cabling and aircraft lighting have opposite conventions. Red means right side audio, but red also means left wingtip. Surely the aircraft lighting is inherited from ship lanterns? Red is port, green is starboard.
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Groke posted:Surely the aircraft lighting is inherited from ship lanterns? Red is port, green is starboard. Yes, it is. (Even some sci-fi spaceships follow the standard -- a lot of Star Trek ships have colored running lights on the correct sides, for example.) Which of course means it's the dastardly audio industry that broke the longstanding convention and put red on the wrong side. There's a little red port left in the bottle, drat it! 
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Flipperwaldt posted:
Nah it's all good, I don't actually know about this stuff. I just assumed that there would be no easy way to have a flip open lid on the spinny part without an obvious hinge, nor why they'd have the buds stick out of the storage bin like that for style when it would clearly be a lot easier to have them fully contained. Thanks for the link!
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https://twitter.com/theDuncanMackay/status/1758918509189275802?s=20 https://twitter.com/DaveDaoggio/status/1758956292914237643?s=20
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Reminds me of this guy. He was a student in the 1890s, and found a neat camera he could hide under his vest (with just the small lens poking through a button hole). He used it to do stealth street photography of more or less famous people - and pretty ladies. Here's Henrik Ibsen:  There's also way more photos here Computer viking has a new favorite as of 23:51 on Feb 17, 2024 |
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Computer viking posted:He used it to do stealth street photography of more or less famous people - and pretty ladies. Voyeur....voyeur never changes
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Powered Descent posted:It still bugs me a little that audio cabling and aircraft lighting have opposite conventions. Red means right side audio, but red also means left wingtip. What bugs me is that you clearly need to manually wind it instead of it retracting like a vacuum cleaner power cord.
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Flipperwaldt posted:
Before I got wireless buds I spent many years searching for more J-Style earbuds where the cord would go over your neck, which made it much easier to take out when
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Gonna watch Matilda on laserdisc tonight. Thought you’d want to know.
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On the subject of video mediums I was just thinking about the first VCR my dad owned, the third entry in the "VHS versus Betamax" war, a Philips V-2000 (or Video 2000, based on the logo) top loader, with optional remote control (the IR receiver plugged into a little port on the bottom of the front panel, as seemed to be a theme with Philips back then, he also had their second ever hifi CD player where the IR receiver was an enormous pyramid you plugged in the back). We had a bunch of home movies for it, including Airplane, Saturday the 14th, and a tape filled with ancient old cartoons including one where Mighty Mouse visits the pyramids in Egypt, which my parents had bought from the local rental place after V-2000 failed in the marketplace (there was probably a higher number of them than average in our town because Philips had a major presence there at the time, and employees including my dad could buy them at a discount from the company shop). The machine was really interesting though - it had support for stereo, automatic tracking using piezo-mounted heads (a feature VHS didn't get until the late '90s), a digital track if you just wanted to embed some kind of digital data alongside the video and audio, and most weirdly of all, you could record on both sides of the tape, it used literally half the "width" of VHS to store everything. My dad was actually curious about this as VHS was much lower quality than V2000 so he took apart a VHS cassette and spooled the tape itself (which was the same specification, so it fit) into a V2000 cassette, and it worked perfectly, including recording on both sides. Apparently the V2000 also moved the tape at 2.44cm/s versus the VHS 3.335cm/s, so VHS just wasted media. What this really meant is that 10 year old me used the B sides of all the commercially recorded cassettes to record cartoons. The cassettes also looked bonkers because they could be used from either side, but still had a mech to protect the tape.
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Charles Ford posted:
thank you, your whole post was fascinating but what the gently caress
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Ah, V2000, a continous source of national pride. Objectively better than VHS, but just too drat expensive.
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Charles Ford posted:On the subject of video mediums I was just thinking about the first VCR my dad owned, the third entry in the "VHS versus Betamax" war, a Philips V-2000 (or Video 2000, based on the logo) top loader, with optional remote control (the IR receiver plugged into a little port on the bottom of the front panel, as seemed to be a theme with Philips back then, he also had their second ever hifi CD player where the IR receiver was an enormous pyramid you plugged in the back). Nidhg00670000 posted:I have an actual Philips Video2000 player in my attic right now. The only physical memorabilia I have of my great grandma, in fact.
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GoutPatrol posted:Before I got wireless buds I spent many years searching for more J-Style earbuds where the cord would go over your neck, which made it much easier to take out when Do you mean something like in ear monitors? 
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Speaking of headphones, I will never get over the Motorola S305s being discontinued. They are the perfect set of headphones for me and I can never get them again. I have a saved search on eBay for them and there are listings every few days where it's like $70 for a set of used ones or an auction that gets bid way up so others are looking for them too. I've bought 3 of them over a decade ago and they were only $25 a piece new. There was a pair listed for $30 with free shipping today but I didn't open the listing in time. "Sport" style on-ear headphones went out of fashion years ago and there are no good ones being made. I've tried a few sets and they all suck rear end and fold up or are uncomfortable. I still have two S305s but the batteries only hold a charge for 2 hours tops, they are falling apart and missing buttons and I've had to fix the neckbands with epoxy several times. That's my headphones story. Unperson_47 has a new favorite as of 14:06 on Feb 18, 2024 |
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Computer viking posted:Reminds me of this guy. He was a student in the 1890s, and found a neat camera he could hide under his vest (with just the small lens poking through a button hole). He used it to do stealth street photography of more or less famous people - and pretty ladies. Lol what a goon.
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monolithburger posted:Do you mean something like in ear monitors? No, where one side was longer than the other. They went around your neck and it was easier to have one out or they were (to me at least) less likely to fall out or get pulled out. It was surprisingly hard to find a photo like this. 
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GoutPatrol posted:No, where one side was longer than the other. They went around your neck and it was easier to have one out or they were (to me at least) less likely to fall out or get pulled out. It was surprisingly hard to find a photo like this. I hated j-style until I learned about these little clips that let you attach the split point to your collar.
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My trash tier ones have a thing that let u adjust the length of each ear individually
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