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There are people out there claiming that bits in a harddrive can be something other than 0 or 1. Apparently there is a state between the 0 and the 1 that can contain information about what bit was there up to 35 generations ago. If this were true, the consequence would be that you wouldn't have a 1 terabyte harddrive. you could use these between states to read and write data, and have a 35 terabyte harddrive. Once a bit is written over, it's written over. It's either 1 or 0, there is no memory of what was there before.
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Got a dead format and need it on the move? I got you covered! 
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This is my second one. It's taken quite a beating, and the volume knob is from some other kind of machine, but it works well. My first was a beautiful TC-D5M, but it was slow and needed mechanical service, so I sold it on. But the WM-D6C, man! What a beast! With my other hifi stuff I have 6 devices that will play tapes.
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Jan 19, 2018 17:42
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The battery on it is dead, and I still haven't ordered a replacement since it will be like $40, which is kinda stupid money to spend on something like that. But then again, my purchasing decisions have never been the best. The LCD on it is HORRIBLE! Metal Geir Skogul posted:No analog gauges, no sale I can do analogue gauges.   
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Jan 19, 2018 18:09
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I found an unopened 5-pack of Hi-MDs at a Sony service center for $20. I put it on eBay, and it sold for $145.
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May 16, 2018 17:11
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jojoinnit posted:Man I wanted one of these so bad back in the day. All of Sony's Vaio range seemed super sleek and premium. Not sure when they stopped making them but I haven't seen a Sony branded laptop in forever. I have the Sony Vaio Pro 13 from 2014, it was their last one. After that, Vaio has become its own brand outside of Sony, and is still making laptops. It was the lightest laptop in the world, but it also had the structural integrity of a napkin. If I rest my palms on the aptly named palmrest, the case bends so much it clicks the touchpad.
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May 17, 2018 15:19
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Empress Brosephine posted:I thought all bose products where poo poo is that not true I bought Bose QC25s which were the main hyped poo poo before the new wireless ones came out, and I sold them after one day of use. They were comfy to wear and the noise cancellation was amazing, but they were cheap plastic poo poo, and the sound quality was absolutely horrible. I have some random $40 noise cancelling Sony earbuds I picked up at an airport years ago, and they sound tons better, but the nc is of course weaker. So for commuters and airplane travellers, go ahead with Bose QCs. If you're interested in music and good sound quality, stay far away.
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May 18, 2018 15:20
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I have vintage audio as a hobby, and I've gone through 20-30 tape decks in the last two years. At best, tapes can sound aaaaaalmost as good as a CD, if you have a really expensive deck, good metal tapes and carefully match your recording levels to the peak search on your CD player. Also, just play some loving tapes, because tapes are fun, and the lo-fi sound is part of the charm!
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Jun 4, 2018 16:07
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skooma512 posted:EF2000 I love that game. I have it installed now with some fancy DOSBOX setup. I wish I could find a way to make the Graphics+ patch work.
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Jun 16, 2018 07:59
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I can't even get a device that's a newer version of my Nvidia Shield Portable  It's the perfect
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Aug 17, 2018 22:52
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tactlessbastard posted:That's a great movie that like nobody watched! I was watching it on TV at my parents place, and my dad walked in while they were in Lebanon, and he told the story about the car bombing. Then that exact thing happened in the movie, and I got goosebumps. That's my Spy Game story.
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Sep 12, 2018 15:03
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I'm not gonna miss every gadget being piano black and covered in fingerprints after three seconds of use. I DO miss my Dell Studio XPS 13. It came out at the tail end of 2008 and was built with aluminum and leather trim, and there has never been a laptop like it before or after. The first iteration was horribly unreliable. With Windows Vista and an Nvidia chipset with switching graphics in the small chassis it never stood a chance, and I went through 5-6 motherboards before Dell swapped it for a facelifted model for me. The facelift ran perfectly, and I kept doing unsupported upgrades to it using parts from computers at work, until 2017 when I finally sold it. At that time it had the most powerful Core 2 Duo CPU you could fit the socket, Windows 10 Pro, 8GB DDR3, the fastest Intel SSD drive the chipset would accept, 4G modem and some upgraded Wifi card. 
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Jan 1, 2019 18:49
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As has been posted repeatedly in this and the other obsolete tech threads: Buy business laptops. They are designed for fast and easy service in the field by lowest bidder techs, and parts will be available for years.
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Jan 1, 2019 21:45
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:They saw the advertising blitz leading up to the change, then bought a converter box AND got cable television. Cable because over the air broadcasting was ending, and a converter box because "I guess TV doesn't work without a converter box now." https://www.wsj.com/articles/millennials-unearth-an-amazing-hack-to-get-free-tv-the-antenna-1501686958
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Jan 9, 2019 11:30
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How come there was always 6-8 weeks of shipping?
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Jan 11, 2019 18:51
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I bought a Sony TCD-D8. It takes 4 AA batteries. You can record a 60 minute DAT tape, rewind it, play it, rewind it again and play it again, and the batteries will be dead.
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Feb 12, 2019 17:39
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In Scandinavia there was a period where we would just go to a website (Does Kungen av Billeberga ring a bell for Scandigoons?) and it would just list a bunch of codes that you would enter into your satellite decoder with your remote. That would give you a bunch of pay channels. No idea how long that system was in use for, because when it comes to hackability, it can't be much easier than that.
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Feb 14, 2019 20:33
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Optiplexes are business PCs, and are designed to fit into a whole ecosystem built around delivering and servicing business needs. Any Optiplex is designed to have its motherboard successfully replaced in two minutes by the lowest bidder computer janitor in your zip code. You can order 25,000 Optiplexes and have them delivered in a week, and for five years after any Optiplex is built you can get any part on it replaced anywhere on Earth on the next business day by a Dell certified technician.
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Feb 17, 2019 22:41
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I just threw out a Technics 3-head direct drive tape deck where the drive wheel had touched the motor and burned everything Now I only have 3 working decks left.
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Feb 25, 2019 21:03
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If you watch the original Star Wars trilogy in 24 fps it's three cinematic masterpieces of their time. If you watch them with motion interpolation turned on, it looks like you're watching 70s Doctor Who. I believe both 48 fps and 60 fps CAN be good for movies, but you would need to actually design the content of your movie for this. If it were done correctly, it should look wrong at 24 fps.
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Jun 13, 2019 16:24
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The 24 hr of Le Mans race has been happening this weekend, so I turned on all the image processing, frame interpolation and fake high dynamic range on my TV. It looks absolutely amazing, because the race content is wide swooping shots of passing cars, with headlights and taillights clearly visible through evening, night and morning lighting. No humans are on screen doing things, so you don't get the soap opera effect. Once it cuts to commercials all the horrors come back.
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Jun 16, 2019 13:36
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First of May posted:The current best version is 4K77, the 4K scanned restoration of an original Technicolor film print. From what I can tell, the 4k77 will be the most accurate to 1977 version, while the Harmys editions will be actually watchable and enjoyable.
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Jun 17, 2019 17:03
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Well I downloaded all 87 gigabytes of 4K77, and I am happy to say it is both watchable and enjoyable.
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Jun 18, 2019 19:57
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About 12 megabyte or 100 megabits per second I'm guessing by dividing 87 GB into two hours. I just put it on an external harddrive that plugged into my TV, which could play the file just fine on its internal media player. You can also use Universal Media Server on a PC, but wifi might be iffy and you might prefer cabled devices. A PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 or Xbox one should easily be able to play the 1080p version of the file. As a sidenote, watching it felt very much like I was studying filmgrain and 70s moviemaking instead of watching a movie, just like an audiophile who listens to his equipment instead of the music playing on it.
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Jun 18, 2019 20:49
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No Discman Z555.
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Pham Nuwen posted:A good USB<->RS-232 converter is precious. I have two and will hold on to them until I no longer have any hardware with a USB port. As has come up in these threads many times, buy a proper business laptop. Dell laptops have the legacy port extender that fits in the docking port underneath, and I'm sure HP and Lenovo has similar solutions.  I haven't looked into how it works now that USB-C docking stations seem to be the new standard, but old business laptops easily last a decade, and are designed to be serviced in the field and have have supplier logistics designed to make parts available for 5+ years at the least.
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Oct 23, 2019 18:49
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I was a big fan of QEMM, which I think worked to at least some degree. I got a lot more games running, but I did hit a few compatibility issues. Then I just got good at configuring config.sys and autoexec.bat, and didn't need anyone to manage my memory for me 
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Keith Atherton posted:I have fond memories of working as a UX designer on a mission critical internal web app and one Dev was a contractor who didn’t know HTML or CSS and the other was this poor kid who bailed from the company after it predictably turned into a fiasco I flip old electronics for profit, and good multi-head hifi VCRs can bring some surprisingly good cash! I've also tried repairing some of them that didn't work, and the mechanical and electrical complexity that's going on inside a VCR is way beyond me.
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Jan 5, 2021 09:35
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Are you doing ITAD or are you flipping old hifi stuff and the like? Flipping old hifi stuff, but have also done toys, watches, and other stuff I can pick up cheap from the classifieds and flea markets. We did have an electronics dumpster at a place I used to work, and that was a gold mine for a couple of years. Pulled out hundreds of sticks of RAM that I sold in lots, and some nice laptops and workstations that I used for years. I've posted a lot of this stuff in the PYF Recent Purchases and 2-channel audio thread.
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Jan 6, 2021 15:47
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Between the Kazaa/WinMX days and torrenting, I was a huge user of eDonkey/eMule and Direct Connect. It was all about finding a good hub with people sharing the best stuff.
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Mar 4, 2021 19:28
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Computer viking posted:There's a few subtle differences in the symbols, too. I'm restoring a Dell XPS M1730 (whole different kind of tech relic we should talk about eventually), and the keyboard backlight doesn't work. A new Norwegian keyboard was €85, and a new Swedish/Danish keyboard was €8. Yeah, I think I'll go for Danish and swap over those 2-3 keys myself.
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Apr 13, 2021 15:59
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649 NOK for Mega Man 4 in 1991. Still remember it. Still have the game too.
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Jun 16, 2021 20:26
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Nobody even notices that it's on HD-DVD.
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Jun 23, 2021 14:22
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KozmoNaut posted:The definition of an audiophile is someone who uses music to listen to their stereo. Don't hit so close to home, bro 
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Jul 6, 2021 12:24
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I always assumed it was the smell of the fire inhibitors and dye in the plastic gassing off as your screen and case heats up.
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Sweevo posted:Weren't 50% of the buttons on the controller just single-use things you flip once at the start of the game for immersive reasons and then never use again? Yeah, the different model mechs had different startup sequences you had to input into the controller and hit "Launch!" at just the right moment. It was satisfying as gently caress. I found a controller, with an additional MS Sidewinder II, for $20 at a flea market, played around with it on my OG XBOX to see that it worked, and sold it on for $200. I would have loved to keep it, but I had no space for it.
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rndmnmbr posted:My space-case country girl sister in law - someone I would wager as being below average in computer touching (and anything requiring the slightest brainpower, really - I love her to death, but I'm glad my brother married her and not me) asked me one single time how to get the latest episode of GoT. I installed utorrent and pointed her at TPB with vague instructions. I have never understood private trackers. What exactly do you get there that you do not get on general open sites? I can see a use case for extremely niche and/or highly curated content, but for general TV shows and movies why bother?
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Nov 29, 2021 08:33
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BattleMaster posted:I'm a weirdo who likes computers of the 2005 vintage or so. Not because it's really good for anything, just pure nostalgia. That's when I got into IT and my jobs had stuff that was insane at the time, like dual quad core systems with 32 GB of RAM. Stuff that was way out of my price range at the time, but is now dirt cheap, so I've been collecting and upgrading that sort of thing when I find it free or cheap. Getting into old Thinkpads and Latitudes with with socketed CPUs is even cooler. Putting a quad-core xtreme CPU from a Dell Precision into a lowly Latitude E6400 or E6410 was awesome. Just make sure your cooling paste is fresh and your fans run freely!
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Mar 29, 2022 12:28
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Gravid Topiary posted:except the scat-play guy's hard-drive, i really didn't probe too deeply into that one (it was a Seagate) Still a shittier drive than its contents.
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It's probably an intranet address. Sorry to ruin your fun.
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