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After catching up with the thread, I can't not post this: Link goes to a now defunct ad with pictures. Skinnymansbeerbelly has a new favorite as of 05:24 on Feb 7, 2020 |
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Neito posted:Also IDK if they still do but Bell used to charge extra for "Touch Tone" phones. My mom was so pissed that grandma had been renting the rotary phone from the phone company for ~20 years, when a new touch tone cost as much as the monthly fee.
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The design, which allowed firewire devices to access memory directly, made it so much faster than USB 2 in practice if the CPU was otherwise tied up. Of course, it also made it vulnerable to DMA attack, so two sides to that coin.
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May 29, 2022 02:51
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In that vein, for a hot second KEXP had a full bandwidth uncompressed PCM audio livestream at ~1.5 megabits. Hearing my favorite band live, while driving down the highway, full bandwidth, was one of those vivid "living in the future" moments.
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Nov 9, 2022 18:48
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But I just upgraded to 56k, how could my ping go up!? 
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Feb 10, 2023 21:00
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Kazinsal posted:The coolest external SCSI drive I ever got my hands on had a rotating wheel for setting the ID. Absolutely loving rad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KImkZvLOCfA
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EVIL Gibson posted:Also PC expos were cool poo poo and you could play cool games like "How many PCs are running the same demo", "Count the Re/boot style wizards/sexy ladies", or even "how many pc systems were playing Weezer that was on the Windows 95 disc?" The endlessly repeated clip of Arnold on the motorcycle in T2 to show off the multimedia experience
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Code Jockey posted:I miss, in a way, that era of lovely mp3s tfw you finally borrow an unscratched NIN CD to rip a clean copy, and the distortion is in the source Skinnymansbeerbelly has a new favorite as of 21:05 on Mar 27, 2024 |
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