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Parallel Paraplegic posted:Oh man I had one of those for years, until someone bumped the door closed while the computer was running and I didn't notice it and went to play a game. It overheated, started making those great crazy polygon things you get when your graphics card's transistors are freaking out and returning errors, and then promptly shut down. Yeah, mine doesn't have a door but that space for the PC tower doesn't exactly promote great ventilation. So I just run my PC with the side panels off, and also to make plugging and unplugging drives a bit easier. But hey it was a free desk and it has wheels, so yeah.
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Bonzo posted:Ahh the old knob and tube wiring. I live in an older part of Cambridge Ontario and they are quit common. Most of the houses with them are being updated now as gramma and granpa move out and new families move in. If aluminum wiring was used, that means the electrical system was worked on in the 1960's-70's. Hopefully all the aluminum wiring was replaced with copper or you could have a fire hazard on your hands.
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Dick Trauma posted:In the old days if you didn't have room on the system board to add RAM you could get a memory expansion card. This particular beast packs a whopping 4 MEGABYTES so those Quattro spreadsheets should fly! 4 MB of RAM... over the ISA bus. I dunno, maybe useful on a 286?
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Oct 4, 2012 07:07
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0toShifty posted:Yep, I have one of those in my scary fuse box. They're probably not supposed to be 20A fuses, I don't know what they are supposed to be. That wire is 14 gauge, so it should probably be fused for 15A. Only 4 circuits? Do you live in a cracker jack box?
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Oct 8, 2012 05:33
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Killer robot posted:
Oh my god we used to have one of these for the longest time! It was in really bad shape though, so much so that this picture is the first time I've seen what one is supposed to look like. It was one of those things that someone always had a plan to restore, but never got around to it and so it was given from one family member to another and continued to deteriorate until finally it was thrown away.
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Oct 10, 2012 21:37
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Inspector_71 posted:One of our customers uses one of these (minus actual machine) as a computer desk, and whenever I'm over there to fix something I always end up working the pedal the entire time, just spinning that flywheel. That's pretty much what I did when I was little. Could do that for hours and never grow bored with it. The wooden top was destroyed, but the cast iron frame was still in great condition. And it squeaked every time it rotated.
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Farecoal posted:What's touch-tone dialing Ah yes, my history teacher taught me what it was. To understand touch tone dialing, first we must go way back to the early days of the telephone. Back then telephones were connected via wires to a centralized wired network maintained and operated by the telephone company. Back then you would have had to interact with actual humans to have your calls placed, a very tiresome and tedious process. Well as technology progressed, phone numbers became the norm, and telephones with numbers appeared on them. You could now call a person simply by dialing a unique communications code that they possessed. But older phones without this feature were still the norm, and so these new phones worked by pulse dialing. The system was set up so that owners of older phones without numbers could quickly push the handset cradle down in rapid succession to signal to the phone company that they were dialing a number. To dial, say the number 5, you'd quickly push the handset cradle five times. In the 1960's the system that you call touch tone was first implemented. It used specific tones to represent numbers, and allowed for faster dialing, automatic dialing, and even the transfer of binary data. This method using tones to represent numbers is what allowed the internet to initially take off. Even today the touch tone system is still used by automated phone tree systems to redirect your call to another phone tree, which then redirects your call to another phone tree, before eventually you are connected with a disinterested customer service representative whose only goal is to make you go away as fast as possible while giving you the illusion of caring and support.
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Impact Damage posted:I've always had a soft spot for the Minolta RD-175: Wow, digital cameras are older then I thought! My first was a Kodak DC 3200 bought in 2000.
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