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If I was on my desktop RN I'd add arny some sunglasses, a reversed cap and gold chains.
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Oct 23, 2023 20:17
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Dip Viscous posted:What is the actual name of that rubbery coating that tons of turn of the century electronics used and always breaks down over the years into a sticky mess? Or do rubbery coatings still do that and I just don't have anything with it that's old enough? I don't know but I wish they hadn't jizzed that poo poo all over everything in the 90s and 00s. I had a VW Golf where all the interior plastics felt like the sticky bit of a post-it, vile.
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Oct 23, 2023 22:22
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A good scrub with isopropyl alcohol will usually take care of that stuff. But then of course you’re at the mercy of whatever plastic is underneath, and its usually not super nice
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Oct 23, 2023 22:37
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Beve Stuscemi posted:A good scrub with isopropyl alcohol will usually take care of that stuff. But then of course you’re at the mercy of whatever plastic is underneath, and its usually not super nice I've succesfully used a rubber.
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Oct 24, 2023 12:40
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(That one's free.)
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Oct 24, 2023 12:40
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I was upset about the clunky grammar in the tweet. I've had some food and sleep, I'm better now.
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Oct 24, 2023 17:30
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AlternateAccount posted:I really feel like the Roll Fizzlebeef could outrun the Blast Hardcheese if they’d just optimize their drivers better, since the Stump Beefknob is impossible to find on store shelves. The Thick McRunfast was disappointing imo
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Oct 24, 2023 20:08
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evobatman posted:What is a "radio-cassette player", and what is "a 60W output"? I hate being old because I don't know if you were actually serious  But you were not because you are posting on the old person thread.
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Oct 25, 2023 16:11
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I don't think I've ever heard the term "radio-casette player" used. The thing in the photo is a boom box. Similarly I never heard the term "vinyl" growing up until the late 90s when the medium was all but dead. They were "records", or maybe LPs. Then again, we didn't have any shellac 78s.
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Oct 25, 2023 17:49
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Oct 25, 2023 17:51
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ExcessBLarg! posted:I don't think I've ever heard the term "radio-casette player" used. The thing in the photo is a boom box. Radio is one category of device Cassette player is a second category of device Combination devices were often designated as just the listing of features. The mini hi-fi I slept next to for my teen years and early twenties was labeled as a cd-player / dual cassette recorder / am/fm radio.
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Oct 25, 2023 17:58
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Radio Cassette Player was definitely a widely used term in the UK, maybe the account comes from there.
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Oct 25, 2023 18:32
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"AM/FM stereo casette" appears a few times in the 1993 sears summer catalog fwiw No space to fit implied words like "radio" or sometimes even "player". "clock radio casette" shows up too. e: 30 1993 dollars is 63.90 2023 dollars Stack Machine has a new favorite as of 19:17 on Oct 25, 2023 |
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ExcessBLarg! posted:. Same. They were always records and never vinyls nor LP. This was living in the same household as my Dad who had like hundreds of records but still called them records
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Oct 25, 2023 20:37
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ExcessBLarg! posted:I don't think I've ever heard the term "radio-casette player" used. The thing in the photo is a boom box. Growing up in the 70s, they were records in general. LPs were albums and 7" records were 45s or singles.
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Oct 25, 2023 23:39
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Please do not forget EPs. 
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EVIL Gibson posted:Same. They were always records and never vinyls nor LP. This was living in the same household as my Dad who had like hundreds of records but still called them records It's a back-formation, like "snail mail". Used to was, when you said "I just got mail", a piece of paper was involved. Then we had e-mail (as it was then spelled) which had the e in front of it to let you know that no paper was involved. Then email became ubiquitous, and mail got renamed "snail mail" because the expectation that "mail" meant "paper" was no longer there. I'm old enough that I still say "dial a phone" sometimes.
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Oct 26, 2023 00:10
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Did we always use the term "dial-up modem"? Until broadband, I didn't know any other kind, but it feels like that's what we always called it.
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Oct 26, 2023 00:12
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I don't recall that phrase emerging until "always on" connections became common.
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Oct 26, 2023 00:20
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I remember saying "I'm dialed-up" or "I have to dial up" but didn't call the connection type itself "dial-up" until after there was other stuff like ISDN.
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Dick Trauma posted:Please do not forget EPs. I have one 10" EP: 
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Oct 26, 2023 00:48
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Definitely always said dial-up modem to differentiate from a serial modem.
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Oct 26, 2023 02:07
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"Dial up modem" was used early on to refer to a modem that could dial itself, as opposed to something like an accoustic coupler that expected you to make the call and place the phone in it. At least, I've seen that in contemporary advertisements and such.
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Oct 26, 2023 02:33
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Gnoman posted:"Dial up modem" was used early on to refer to a modem that could dial itself, as opposed to something like an accoustic coupler that expected you to make the call and place the phone in it. even my 9600 baud for prodigy was dial-up, i never had to use a coupler.
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Oct 26, 2023 02:57
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I used a Texas Instruments Silent 700 thermal printing terminal (looked like a briefcase in its carrier) to log into my school's Time Sharing System back in the 70s. It used a 300 Baud acoustic coupler. edit: Here's the ad for it in all its 1976 glory! https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Texas_Instruments/TI.Silent700.1976.102646198.pdf Humbug Scoolbus has a new favorite as of 03:43 on Oct 26, 2023 |
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Oct 26, 2023 03:41
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I remember being really excited when my dad got us a 2400baud modem.
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Oct 26, 2023 03:43
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I like the Sharp one there because it looks as if they reused the case from one of their electric typewriter models so they wouldn't have to make new tooling.
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Oct 26, 2023 07:00
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This might be too boring for even this thread, but is there a good YouTube series or web page that goes through old palmtop organizers and early pdas? Like, the psion or the Palm would be toward the end of the era. Just lots of Sharp Zaurus and Radio Shack stuff, ridiculously complicated things with dot matrix lcds. I'm just a bit nostalgic for those old devices that I wanted to get my hands on as a kid.
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Oct 26, 2023 07:29
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I'm fairly sure that cathode ray dude or LGR have gone over portables like that before. Techmoan might have as well. You'd probably do well to just type those devices into YouTube and see what comes up.
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Oct 26, 2023 07:53
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LGR has a video on my favorite tiny computer which I had myself back in the 90s. It wasn't terribly useful, but as a electronic notebook it was okay and the keyboard was surprisingly good for its size. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQwJk8E_xKE
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That's so neat.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I used a Texas Instruments Silent 700 thermal printing terminal (looked like a briefcase in its carrier) to log into my school's Time Sharing System back in the 70s. It used a 300 Baud acoustic coupler. After watching War Games I always wanted an acoustic coupler modem, alas we had to make do with the 300 baud modem on our C64. I remember going to 2400 was a BIG DEAL.
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I don't know about acoustic couplers but I did learn that while the ANC was fighting the apartheid regime in South Africa they came upon the idea of using an acoustic modem to convert information to recordings they could transfer via the phone system untapped and the regime took a really long time to figure this out.
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Oct 26, 2023 13:48
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MORE DOOM! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4OHXtrvMrU
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Here's a great video by Technology Connections about TV devices that censored via reading the captions, changing the caption itself and silencing audio the instant the bad word was detected https://youtu.be/ZiXg6H_FycI?si=4azmDAvK7WU7FFG- But wait, there's more! Then a channel called Ben Eater shows up, from start to end, shows how to reverse engineer the censor device and dump the ROM showing the dictionary of the bad words and what they would be replaced by. https://youtu.be/a6EWIh2D1NQ?si=g_O5FfaqTizBEX2b technology connections is the pinned comment of that video
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Oct 26, 2023 15:47
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A few more pics that make me feel fuzzy:       
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Looking through my favorites on YouTube I found a 16 year old video https://youtu.be/z0jQZxH7NgM?si=gEvqHD4l4bTZjulb Pentium 4 - 5Ghz overclocked  when videos were not SEO'd to hell and back
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