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Back in school they told us MP3 was developed expressly to transmit quality voice over a single channel, or CD quality stereo over a dual channel ISDN connection. This made it the de facto broadcast standard from then on out, because all you need to run a feed is a working ISDN line.
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I know video crews were using MD players as a reliable no-frills digital field recorder as late as 2010 or so, until those Zoom pocket recorders became the new standard. e: reading up, apparently the recorders actually even provide phantom power for your fancy condenser mics? https://www.minidisc.org/tale_of_two.html snorch has a new favorite as of 00:57 on Jun 8, 2021 |
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The majority of my early mp3 collection was ripped 56kbps shoutcast streams. They would start with a bit of the previous track, and sometimes it's still a little weird to hear these songs without the "intro".
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r u ready to WALK posted:The company is still around selling oled microdisplays to the defense industry to this day What's interesting to me is a lot of companies involved in VR in the 90s ended up in the defense business. One of my in-laws ran a popular gaming accessories company back in the day, and they're doing the military/industrial thing too now. Deeper pockets I guess.
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Kazy posted:I actually had a GPD Win for a bit, mainly used it to play FFXI. FWIW win2000 also works pretty well on old pentiums. Back when I was a poor student all I had was grandma's crusty old compaq laptop from '98 (a worthy contribution to this thread in its own right, if I could still find it in my parents' attic), and of all the operating systems I tried on it, 2000 proved to be best for modern use.
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Also upgraded to Windows 98 while I was at it.
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Actually that's scripting.
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Canada's great, every so often I'll get an email from my ISP saying "we got a letter from Time Warner asking to unmask your IP but don't worry we don't actually have to do that".
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Picked up a VHS/DVD combo from the thrift store and for some reason the biggest nostalgia pang came from seeing this:
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I'd love one of those actually.
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I have the logitech M570 and it's pretty good. It's nice to be able to just rest my hand anywhere and mouse around without much surface underneath.
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There is only one answer: Photoshop 7.0
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There's a whole generation of iMacs that are dead forever because widespread assembly issues with early BGA chips killed their ATI GPUs. I've got one sitting in my closet just looking pretty being dead, and the only thing I can think to do with it is get one of those display driver boards and put completely different guts in it.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:You can cook the poo poo out of the GPU with a heat gun to fix them, generally. I have one uselessly sitting on a shelf that I resuscitated that way Actually I did try baking it to bring it back to life. It worked for about a week then failed again. I read that it's because the flip-chip bonds would eventually crack and fail during thermal expansion, and can't actually be reflowed.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:There really should be a Tech Relics BBS Pretty sure there’s a geezer-run BBS where they still talk about exciting ways to get more out of your Commodore.
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Mr-Spain posted:So, helped out a dude going through a bunch of stuff thrown together and picked out stuff for PCs that may work, 3 huge tubs of stuff. One of the things I pulled out was this. Apparently they are kinda special these days. Can anyone tell the model? Voodoo4 4500. Going by wiki it’s the last Voodoo ever released, and is essentially [url= https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo_5]half a Voodoo5[/url].
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I went to look at a used 1996 BMW 5-series today and was very surprised to see it had a very fleshed out sat nav/infotainment system for the time. https://youtube.com/watch?v=mNy6tMA1xmw
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Pretty sure you were talking to a tech support ghost.
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I had the opportunity to take a bit of a pilgrimage to Palo Alto on a recent California visit, and found this on the back of the Meta sign:
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The endless swapping of Baldur's Gate CDs is one of my earliest PC gaming memories.
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Arivia posted:What's the map of? Hip-hop history.
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On a train through Italy: Never Change a Running System.
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Yes, at every stop they’d shut the whole train down for a few minutes and start it back up before departing.
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I remember stumbling across a bootleg CD that had a remarkably complete Dark Forces packed in with dozens of other games. The thing was titled Space Games and although I have tried to find out any information about it it is apparently long since a thing of legend. I can still hear the cracktro music.
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I sing the "keeping up with the commodore" jingle every time I power up my C64.
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I wonder what extra magic they have in there to make that work, because the gameboy definitely doesn't have any video output on board.
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It's weird how often that's the case and you have to force-feed windows the "wrong" driver. This one springs to mind, he goes through the trouble of cloning the card from scans and then has to do exactly that: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0W1t2_EJG9w
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I think the key switches alone would cost more. I did once get an aliexpress keyboard with knockoff blues for around that, but beyond them making clicky noises they are definitely not like the Cherrys, and had quite a bit of slop to them.
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I heard mp3 was initially developed to make use of ISDN for broadcast but have been unable to verify. Supposedly that's why they aimed for "CD quality" at 128kbps.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Other than Windows NT/2000/Whatever, and Linux, is there any software that would actually take advantage of four whole-rear end pentium 3's? I'm sure enterprise stuff would like SQL or Citrix or whatever, but anything a normal human would want to use? Multi-CPU rigs were and are very popular for CGI, since rendering is Embarrassingly Parallel.
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Welcome to the future.
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The music is on the shiny side though, does that mechanism reach around the back? Or does every slot have its own laser bits?
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I think one wheel scrolls horizontally. Back in the day screens were smaller and web devs hadn't phased out horizontal scrolling (I think at some point Opera would even reformat pages to eliminate horizontal scroll bars) so that would indeed be a handy feature. Those 4-way wheels never did feel quite right.
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Milkdrop is still great honestly. I do wonder what those music streams use for real-time visualization though, I imagine they're running some game engine like Unity that's been tailored to the task.
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I do not miss SCSI one bit, no siree.
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Seriously, what could you possibly need 80 pins for?
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Bryce was my poo poo. My grandma got it for my 14th birthday, and I no joke read the manual cover to cover. I still have some printouts of my old Bryce renders somewhere. It was by far the most intuitive and accessible 3D software out there. The unsung hero is probably its deep procedural material system, with a vast library of excellent presets to get you started. Eventually I graduated to Cinema4D, and now I’m a professional in CGI for film, using tools that cost thousands of dollars and would have probably melted my feeble teen brain with their learning curve (though to be fair Houdini is much easier to learn these days, free indie license and lots of pre-built starter templates). I can safely say that Bryce, with its easy pathway to rewarding visual results, sparked my ongoing and undying love for 3D graphics.
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