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Humphreys posted:We never really had conventions in the small town I grew up in. But drat the local LAN parties at the college were a feast for the eyes of a 10yo me with a lovely P75. This joystick (the force feedback and the non-force feedback one) were really bad about building up a static charge with that huge metal base and then ceasing to function until you discharged it somehow. I remember having one that refused to work when I tried to use it with all my computers at the time. I thought it was junked until I read a support thread for it on the Microsoft forums where someone suggested letting it sit on a folded towel overnight. Sure enough, it worked fine the next day and that's what I have to do every time I want to use it after getting it out of storage.
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Laserjet4P posted:Speaking of cards: http://blog.codinghorror.com/revisiting-the-black-sunday-hack/ is a nice read.  Wow, that was awesome; I'm surprised I've never heard of this before.Edit: Fixed the link because I'm dumb. Unperson_47 has a new favorite as of 10:27 on Dec 19, 2014 |
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Coffee And Pie posted:That's not too out there, older houses were built with holes in the bathroom walls to put used razor blades, and the hole just went into the wall, so if you opened up the wall, you'd just find a pile of ancient razors. Every time I read this poo poo I have to go and re-verify it for myself because I always think it's just one of those "boy things sure were crazy in the 50s" kind of things. I know it's true but I don't want to admit that there's a good chance that there's just a tetanus landfill in millions of houses because no one could think of a better way than to just shove blades in the wall like some kind of rodent. Unperson_47 has a new favorite as of 13:19 on Mar 14, 2015 |
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Krakox posted:Anyone ever have one of those gamepark 32xs? The dinky Linux game handhelds from early thousands? I bet those count as obsolete I still have mine but it's a model from about 2008-2010 and boot it up sometimes. I've used the poo poo out of it.
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ReidRansom posted:I've been considering getting an amateur radio license lately, and I can't honestly understand why because it seems like such a pointless and outdated thing these days that just ends up costing a lot of money (to build a station) and then gathering dust, but for some reason I still want to. I went down this rabbit hole a few years ago because this old 70 year old guy at work heard I was interested in it and was really enthusiastic and encouraged me to get certified and get a radio setup. We were probably out of touch (I was about 24 at the time) in every other way but it was really  that he was so eager to talk about it. I ended up getting a radio and antenna and intended to get the basic certification but never did and sold it to the guy and felt bad about it.  Our local amateur radio club is less than a dozen and the vast vast majority of them are in their 60s+ and the others are pushing 50 themselves. I'd hate for HAM use to die with them. Unperson_47 has a new favorite as of 21:49 on Mar 27, 2017 |
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Kelp Me! posted:I think I showed a few pictures in this thread (or maybe the other tech relics thread, who knows) but QSL cards are a pretty sweet perk of ham radio, my dad has a bunch from some crazy spots, like countries that don't exist anymore, anthropology students literally setting up an antenna in the middle of the veldt, Guantanamo Bay, Antarctica, etc. I always wanted to collect QSL cards and do the cliche pins on a map connected by thread of all my contacts cliche thing.
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Thanks to whoever pointed out bigclive and Techmoan's Youtube channels in this thread.
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The constant desire for brighter flashlights than needed for general use is really stupid. I should know because I fell down that rabbit hole myself a few years ago and have a drawer of them.
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blugu64 posted:My dad and I constantly compare the power, brightness, and features of our latest flashlights. It’s how we bond. My dad and I have literally had long conversations revolving around flashlights. Advertised brightness is a ploy by Big Lumen Unperson_47 has a new favorite as of 03:21 on Feb 3, 2018 |
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After some horrible experiences with a washing machine with a faulty inlet valve and walking into a flooded utility room and soaked carpet in the nearby room, I don't think I'd EVER want one to start washing when I wasn't at home. Then again, all I've ever had was the cheapest-rear end washing machines. Even after replacing the inlet valve, I bought an overflow pan to put under the washer and a water-sensing alarm because cleanup even with my shop-vac was a pain in the rear end. I had to do that twice and never wanted to do it again. The new valve, pan, and alarm were probably not far off from the price of a new cheap-rear end washer. Unperson_47 has a new favorite as of 10:33 on Nov 23, 2018 |
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To receive your crushed ice, you must kill me, John Romero.
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Dusting is the biggest con in human history.
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Peanut Butler posted:hell yeah, growing up, my folks had a slick 80s plastic-and-faux-leather version of the same thing- looked different, same mechanism, mostly got busted out for christmas cards I remember when they started making these personal organizer devices that could communicate with each other via IR or RF. ( I dont' remember which) I wanted one SO BAD so I could talk to the friends I didn't have in class.
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Peanut Butler posted:I wanted the model that had a little microphone and speaker on the back, that you could hold up to any phone, dial their number, and sync email/articles 
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Vanagoon posted:Cross posting from the Tech Relics thread: This is from 2003. Are personal pages at universities archived forever?
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Vanagoon posted:You're complaining about this in the obsolete technology thread? Not complaining at all! Just curious as I have seen so many of them.
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Peanut Butler posted:yeah I bought one in High School and it was pretty immediately obvious that I was like five or six years too old for it I spent a ton of time on ticalc.org, downloading and making lovely games.
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What were those devices that you put your credit card on it at store register a long rear end time agos? It was kind of like a mandolin slicer. I think it may have just ran a wheel of ink across some paper that rested on top of your card, making a paper copy sort of like making a rubbing of something with paper and the side of a pencil lead. They went away long before I was using credit/debit card and I don't think I ever knew what exactly they did or what they were called. Unperson_47 has a new favorite as of 09:32 on Jun 25, 2019 |
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Lurking Haro posted:=That's why the name and numbers are raised . Wow, I''ve always wondered why they were raised and never put it together.
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uli2000 posted:
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Personally, I was/am a big fan of the trend of translucent plastic so you could see the circuitry. Friend had a phone like this where the plastic was super clear and a light that flashed when it rang that I was jealous of. Found a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xyxek51WVCU It was like this but was a newer model made in the 90s because I'm pretty sure it didn't have a neon in it. Unperson_47 has a new favorite as of 00:06 on Jul 29, 2019 |
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Transparent plastic so you can see circuitry:  Transparent displays like minority report:  -- me, age now Zopotantor posted:In the early nineties I worked on CAD software at HP. Practically all of HP's MEs used our products, because they were "sold" internally at much less than what they retailed for. The application I co-developed was the first of these that supported freeform surfaces. A short time later, HP products (especially the printers) started to look sort of melted... 
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Iron Crowned posted:I still haven't figured out how they were supposed to read that clear paper in Babylon 5. Never watched it. By clear paper do you mean basically transparencies?
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Arsenic Lupin posted:That's beautiful. When I first saw it, I was wondering how you were supposed to scan paper on top. Then I remembered that's back when not every printer had a scanner. Reminds me of the first scanner I had. It was a Mustek LPT scanner from 1996-1997 that was a gigantic piece of poo poo. I bought it to scan pictures of my childhood dog to save on my computer. She had just gotten hit by a car and killed and I could never get it to work.
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I bet that melted printer would better contour to your arm if you needed to lug it to someone's house a couple miles away in a hurry.
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Just how much grime got in those sliding and rotating keyboards on those phones?
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stevewm posted:My ancient old Vizio 32" LCD TV (Circa 2006?) crashes if you push Right arrow button on the remote OR front panel buttons more than 2 times consecutively. You have to push another key between any 2 consecutive right arrow button presses. If not it will completely turn off and you have to unplug it to make it come back on. This is mind-blowing. Have you ever checked if there was a firmware upgrade that fixed it?
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Cojawfee posted:Here's some obsolete technology for you. I've been building an 8 bit computer out of TTL chips. More like a loavesboard. Do you have video of this thing in operation? Unperson_47 has a new favorite as of 08:13 on Aug 16, 2019 |
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Here's someone that mounted it on the wall in a deep box frame. Looks pretty neat! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUzBsoBgcSY
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I would watch a whole documentary on feelies/physical copy protection.
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I remember there was a dumbass visualization plugin for Winamp that was a tie-in for A Knight's tale where knights fought to the tune of the music. (not very well)
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shovelbum posted:Can we create a fake kickstarter campaign with fake prototypes and then just buy the counterfeits? Now, this guy is onto something.
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I have a Sidewinder Precision that still works to this day. I played through Mechwarrior 3 with it last year. It does have a slight problem though; every few years I feel the need to get it out I have to let it discharge the static build-up because it has a huge-rear end metal base on it. It won't be detected by any computer if I don't. This guy loving rules and now I have to watch every one of his videos. Unperson_47 has a new favorite as of 04:35 on Aug 27, 2019 |
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KozmoNaut posted:*Looks angrily at Denon AV receiver remote* What is it about this remote that needs more juice? Unperson_47 has a new favorite as of 08:38 on Aug 27, 2019 |
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0toShifty posted:Brought to you by the country that also had the fireplace tax, playing card tax, brick tax and window tax! Could you combine the last two into a more affordable broken window tax? edit: Reading about the brick tax made me learn the phrase "Wilkes' gobs."
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I have a 1GB Sansa Clip I bought in 2007 or so. I used it for 8-10 hours every night every other week for 4 years straight (7 day, 12-hour shifts with every other week off) and it's still my main MP3 player. Lot of Coast to Coast AM listened to on that thing. I use a 3rd party "OS" on it called RockBox. Unperson_47 has a new favorite as of 21:23 on Aug 28, 2019 |
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Before the Clip, my mp3 player was the Sansa c140 which ran on a single AAA battery. Remember when there was no standardization for interfacing to a computer so you had dozens of different connectors and cables, some proprietary? Glad it's all mini/micro USB now. wa27 posted:Rockbox was cool - I put it on my iAudio X5L.  What an odd shape. "Color sound" is the best kind of sound. Reminds me of PCMCIA cards that definitely belong in this thread.  I still use a Linksys PCMCIA WI-FI adapter in an old-rear end Dell laptop. Unperson_47 has a new favorite as of 21:58 on Aug 28, 2019 |
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Buttcoin purse posted:I think the instructions for my microwave say that if I'm heating water in it, I should rest a spoon in the container so it doesn't do that thing where it suddenly explosively boils when you disturb it. Apparently this is really important because there's an illustration of this inside the door. I've never tried it, I just use a kettle. No, not in the microwave. This happened to me. I was heating a glass measuring cup with 2.5 cups of water and when I went to grab it, I bumped it a bit before grasping the handle and boiling water erupted everywhere - all inside microwave and on the counter, but I avoided getting scalded. Helped clean the microwave a little, at least.
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Those horse masks were never funny. edit: Whoops, wrong thread but I'm just gonna leave it hanging. Unperson_47 has a new favorite as of 20:13 on Sep 8, 2019 |
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Chemmy posted:Expensive tools own when you don’t pay for them. whoops, lost my post it was basically me being jealous of people getting fancy multimeters from work in the electronics megathread. Unperson_47 has a new favorite as of 07:02 on Sep 11, 2019 |
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