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Geoj posted:^ A dedicated user must have been able to get it to run on *nix because a computer science major friend of mine in college had that watch and I really really doubt he was running Windows.
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Nasgate posted:Screw Ipods and Zunes, my family used Zen players God I wish they were still making Visions. Now all they put out are crappy touchscreen devices with like 8 gigs of space. I just want mp3 player technology to not have progressed past 2007 I think. I hate every current one I see.
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RabbitMage posted:My parents bought me one back in 1999 when I started high school. The exact same calculator is now getting me through calculus and college chemistry. The only difference that I see between mine and the newer ones is that the newer ones have a USB port. The printer that we got about a year ago is an all-in-one model. It even has an assigned HP email address or something and you can email from it for some weird reason. We use the actual fax machine pretty regularly still.
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Farbtoner posted:On that note: I generally used mine as a tiny boombox. I always felt like that was the epitome of products that were a whole lot less cool than advertised.
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What did handheld calculators use as displays before LCD's? Like the kind of display Speak and Spells had?
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Aug 4, 2012 12:41
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"You can also shut off long, annoying commercials while picture remains on screen!" Does that mean mute? Also I like how people were already trying to avoid commercials in 1956.
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Aug 6, 2012 23:09
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That and the computer were really the best parts of Season 2 of Lost.
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Aug 7, 2012 23:15
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Magic_Ceiling_Fan posted:Our IT guy at work told me that all law firms have one as well for similar reasons. I have no idea if it's true. I work at a law firm and we had one until about 5 years ago because they were still somewhat useful for filling out forms. Then the courts we worked with switched all their forms to PDF so it got tossed. We actually didn't have a manual typewriter, it was electric, and I can't see one being very useful in a prolonged power outage anyway since we'd need to photocopy everything.
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Pilsner posted:That reminds me of this thing my mother had lying around from when she was young. It was this brown, handheld "binocular" of sorts, about the size of a small virtual boy you could say. You put these white paper discs (very thin, about 10cm in diameter) in a slot on top, and they had a series of themed, tiny, transparent photos around the edge. For example, one would be themed Caribbean, and there were pictures of landmarks, local people, beaches, ports, etc. You pushed down on a lever to advance to the next picture. The slide pictures embedded in the disc were maybe 1x1cm, but when you viewed them through the two eye-holes (like a binocular), they of course appeared as big as your vision. Kinda neat in the old days. I think it was called something with "scope" or "vision" in the name, but I can't remember now. Are you talking about Viewmasters?  You talking about them being a toy from your mother's childhood has made me feel depressingly old. Elim Garak has a new favorite as of 12:48 on Sep 14, 2012 |
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We had a tape rewinder at my house because my uncle convinced my dad rewinding in the vcr ruined the play heads.
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Palpatine MD posted:I loved the insane robotic sounds my 3-disc changer stereo made when switching between trays. I kept The Rock movie soundtrack in tray 3 for the better half of the 90's. Friend of mine still has a 5-disk changer which he still uses, and we give him poo poo for the thing all the time. No idea 51-changers existed, holy poo poo. My wife had a 100 CD changer when she was in high school. Her uncle worked for Pioneer and she used to get all sorts of crazy crap from him. We still have the 5.1 DVD player she got from him in the early 2000's and never used to full potential because she was afraid she was going to wake her landlords. I'll have to swap it out for a Blu Ray eventually but it's pretty great for now.
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Oct 10, 2012 22:21
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Shugojin posted:Years later, I still miss the boing sound degaussing my CRT monitor made. At work we didn't switch to LCD's until like last year so I got degauss satisfaction for a good five years more than most people. It was great.
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Oct 27, 2012 20:04
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Libluini posted:The funny thing is, most of my fellow students first reaction was more like "Durr. Glass is hard. Glass is like shiny stone." Luckily, no one of us was studying to become a glassmaker, or there would have been a problem. I don't know, my friend majored in glassblowing in college and I am 75% sure he told me that glass was a liquid and used the old window thing as the example. The other 25% chance is that I actually brought it up and he corrected me and I'm misremembering it because college.
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Nov 1, 2012 23:15
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Benly posted:Of course, a glassblower is known for working with the glass in the state where it is a liquid, so maybe this isn't too surprising. True, but he had to know about its composition for cooling and coloring, which is why I'm surprised he got it wrong. I'm starting to think it's more like 50/50 that I'm remembering it wrong.
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So I'm pretty sure we've talked about game watches before, but when I was in third grade I had this bad boy: The Legend of Zelda game watch. The Zelda wiki says it came with eight dungeons but I'm pretty sure I only got through the first three. I never really liked LCD games, I always felt like the controls were sluggish, and they were tiny on the watch even for my little eight year old fingers. But check out this packaging:  Just imagine you're an eight year old boy in 1989. Holy poo poo was that so badass to unwrap on Christmas.
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Nov 2, 2012 00:29
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Those old school sticks may have great form and last forever but I am extremely happy that I haven't had to do a joystick calibration in ten or fifteen years. That was not fun.
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Nov 24, 2012 16:49
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Pilsner posted:Old phone: Press down (button or joystick), press first letter of contact's name - or keep pressing down until reaching the contact. Press call button. I agree with you, I got my first smartphone this winter and while I love it I think the thing it does least well is act as a phone.
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Datasmurf posted:Episodes? As far as I remember, Napster was only for music. I'm pretty sure I had a pirated from the theater copy of the South Park Movie I got off napster, although it is possible I got it from the school's network. But I think it was napster.
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Rambling Robot posted:Perhaps you got it on Napster, and the used Wrapster? No, I don't remember ever installing wrapster, and March of 2000 seems a little late, I think I had the movie by the end of the fall '99 semester. It must have been the school's network after all. This is only so memorable because it was the first full movie I pirated and I was pretty stoked by it all.
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MadScientistWorking posted:Unless your in Boston where it happens every single time you take the bus. That's only the silver line though, right? Or do you mean like the green line west of Kenmore?
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Jul 11, 2013 20:42
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And no I'm not actually joking either for some bizarre reason certain trolley buses are actually dual mode meaning that they switch over to diesel or electric.
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dissss posted:Speaking of that I came across this wikipedia page the other day: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_quackery My favorite crazy radioactive "therapy" story is of Eben Byers. The headline for the story of his death was "The Radium Water Worked Fine until His Jaw Came Off."
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Brother Jonathan posted:Lots of animations have been saved. You can still watch the first Star Wars movie in ascii animation via telnet at towel.blinkenlights.nl. I always thought that was one of the coolest pointless wastes of time on the internet.
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Inspector 34 posted:My first ever car was a hand-me-down from my dad to my older sister and then to me, it was an '84 Thunderbird and I honestly thought the digital speedo was kind of cool. Mine displayed in bright green (I think)and was the only part of the car that I didn't consider to be a huge piece of poo poo. I think my older brother had a Thunderbird like this. Did they have an 8-track in them? I know my brothers did, it was the last functioning 8-track I played with.
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