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Skeleton Ape posted:Smoking Gun posted: LOL.... I still use a modem everyday. Where I live, it's the only way to get internet. Xfinity ftmfl
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Loading programs onto my family's TI-99/4a via cassette tape. Better yet, trying to impress friends with TI-Basic programs that made R2-D2 noises.... by making them sit while my 6yo self typed it out for a 5 second sound. Speaking of the TI-99/4a, the Speech Synthesizer was a nifty gimmick.
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thathonkey posted:for the Wii i had to do a hardware chip modification to use Yeah, now it can be "soft-modded" and is a fairly simple process if the system hasn't been updated past a certain point (this may have changed, though). It took me a couple hours to do mine mostly because I was taking my time and reading instructions 2-3 times to make sure I didn't brick a 2 week old console. Once done, it's very seamless and user-friendly unlike my jailbroken PS3.
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Dec 31, 2015 03:25
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Obsolete pretty much everywhere except car dealerships and auto parts stores. Every car I've bought had all the duplicate/triplicate forms printed on a dot matrix and auto parts stores around here that deal to mechanics print invoices with them.
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Jan 3, 2016 02:52
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The best MP3 player I ever used was an iRiver H10. Sound was awesome, but it was the glitchiest piece of poo poo I've ever owned. My Zen Micro Photo was pretty sweet, but finally quit turning on aside from the glowing ring around the face.
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Jan 5, 2016 16:29
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Casimir Radon posted:Same sort of thing woth cell phones, wheb I was in high school you weren't even supposed to have them on tour person, they had to be in your locker turned off. Same where I teach. Used to be tighter security with the PCs, but now we outsource our IT and they don't really give a poo poo. Cell phone policies have changed drastically since I started in 2000 mostly due to crazy parents and the whole "it's my child's right! This is America! What if there was an emergency?" crap. Back in 85 or so, my dad had the great idea to add speakers to our Tandy 1000 (SX?). The speakers were cool for a short period until someone moved one too close to the computer case and wiped the drive.
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Jan 8, 2016 00:19
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Humphreys posted:drat it felt cool being the only kid with the full 'Aircraft Carrier Config' as we called it. Then we played some games and it was lovely and not worth the hype. Especially the games that required both 32x and SegaCD My brother and I had the whole setup too. Some of the Sega CD games were cool, but the 32x games generally sucked.
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Jan 27, 2016 00:03
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Mak0rz posted:What were some games that required both the 32x and the CD? They better have been good enough to spend $300 on. God drat. There were only 6: Corpse Killer Fahrenheit Night Trap Slam City with Scottie Pippen Surgical Strike (Brazil only) Supreme Warrior The only 32x (not cd) games I remember playing off the top of my head are MKII, Virtua Fighter and Virtua Racing. MKII wasn't much better than the Genesis version, Virtua Fighter was cool at the time, and Virtua Racing felt like you were driving along at 20mph.
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Jan 27, 2016 01:13
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Casimir Radon posted:Dope Wars/Drugs Wars/Other names was a game that got ported to the TI calculator line at some point and was highly passed around. Used to have it on my Palm III and would play it during staff meetings at school.
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Feb 21, 2016 04:07
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Only time I've used laser disc was when I started teaching in '99, one of our technology textbooks used a Pioneer player with a scanner to read a barcode in the book and play a video.
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Aug 21, 2016 03:24
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Powered Descent posted:Did the barcode scanner look like this? No, it was like this one: 
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Cojawfee posted:We had a laserdisc player in elementary school. It was used to watching science videos. You'd watch a bit and then they'd ask what you think was going on. Then the teacher would scan a barcode associated with our choice and the video would continue. I learned about salmonella. Speaking about salmonella and tech relics.... How about Squigglevision? https://youtu.be/V_b9KU5etRg
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Aug 21, 2016 04:38
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:the composite ports were probably intended for VCR/DVD machines That's how mine is set up. In fact, there is a DVD/VCR combo with another VCR on top of it because the VCR portion of the one on the bottom eats tapes and when it did work, it rewound at a glacial pace. I don't really use it now that they unblocked YouTube (yes, they really had it blocked for teachers lol). The library still has a big collection of VHS tapes and DVDs, but gently caress rewinding tapes. Plus, most of the tapes have been played so much over the years they're washed out, audio cuts in/out, etc.
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Aug 21, 2016 16:28
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Aug 31, 2016 00:15
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WebDog posted:
My brother's and I had ours hooked up via S-video. If RCAs were futuristic (introduced in 1940s or 50s),S-video must have been some alternate dimension poo poo.
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Aug 31, 2016 01:54
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nigga crab pollock posted:but the wii is cracked wide open and probably the cheapest/best standard-def set top box you can buy. The Wii was a great console for most things other than games. There were quite a few good games, but quite a bit of shovelware. However, I still prefer the Netflix and Hulu interfaces compared to my Roku. I also softmodded it and had a collection of games, movies and music on a 1TB drive and used my Wii all the time until I finally replaced my HD projection TV. Launching a game on the Wii is superclass (usbloader) as is the other functions. My jailbroken PS3, on the other hand, is nowhere as easy to use due to needing to launch additional apps to play online, etc. That brings me to this: Are modded/jailbroken consoles a tech relic? You could softmod a Wii 2-3 years after its release and jailbreak a PS3 in about the same amount of time after release. I don't follow much on the Xbone, but other than a the Brazilian hacks a few months ago for PS4, there doesn't seem to be much progress being made.
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Aug 31, 2016 18:18
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drunk asian neighbor posted:AFAIK, even to this day, if you upgraded your PS3's firmware past one of the really early updates, your only option if you want to mod it is to get an EEPROM flasher, which is both expensive and risky if you gently caress it up. Yeah, I bought a fat, backwards compatible ps3 and had it done (big mistake and waste of money as they have a tendency to overheat). It died and bought a slim that was already jailbroken and it's been great. I softmodded a Wii according to directions on a SA offshoot back in 2009. Basically pulled it out of the box at Christmas and a couple hours later I was done.
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Sep 1, 2016 00:33
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Sentient Data posted:My old car (an 88 Chrysler) had a ton of fuse wire scattered about, so it's not limited to UK houses. And, yes, a common aftermarket change is to cut out the fuse links and splice in standard fuse holders. Same with a 90 Nissan Sentra I had. There were a handful of fusible links under the hood and had one blow once. I had never seen one before on any of the other cars I had owned.
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That's really cool. I loved that game but only ever played it in a regular cabinet.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:No, because cord-cutting is vastly overstated and cable TV isn't going anywhere for a long time. Cable-cutting only works for nerds like myself who don't give a single poo poo about sports. However, it kills me that in TYOOL 2016, our local video store is never empty and packed around dinner time on the weekends like it's 1986.
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Even with Prime, Netflix and Hulu I still download  from a private SA splinter group for mostly newer movies for my wife and I and cartoons for my kids to load onto my Plex server. Netflix rarely ads anything new for kids, Hulu has like 20 decent things and dozens of (Pakistani?) ripoffs of 50yo Disney movies, and Prime is maybe a little better than Hulu. Overall we watch Hulu the most, I watch movies on Netflix late at night and Prime is always an afterthought but we didn't get it for the video service.Speaking of , I saw where someone may have found an exploit in OFW3.55 for the PS4 and that the exploit may work on two other older firmwares (3.15, 3.50?) . So maybe modding consoles won't be a tech relic yet as I brought it up a few pages ago because by this time in their production cycle (compared to where the PS4 and Xbone are at) , the Wii, PS3 and Xbox 360 had already been figured out.It's also kind of funny that OFW3.55 was the magic number on the PS3 and was the last one you could mod without using a Progskeet to downgrade it.
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Last Chance posted:What the gently caress is this? Early signs of schizophrenia?
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Cojawfee posted:I dug this guy out the other day and spent some time charging it up.It wouldn't turn on so I thought the battery was dead and ordered a new one. I guess the screen is just really dim after all these years. It thinks it is 2007 and the last song I played on it was Paschendale. I bought one of these refurbished from Fry's in 06 or 07 and used it all the time until I got my first smartphone in 2010. I still used it some, but after a few years of heavy use, the screen became dim and it would only turn on every third try and started freezing in the middle of songs which sucked because I used it commuting on my motorcycles and either would have to pull over or ride without tunes the rest of the way. The best sounding mp3 player I ever had was an iRiver but it was a glitchy POS that would rarely make it through a couple songs before crashing.
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shoophobo posted:So I have a thing for old radios, especially shortwave receivers. My dad had a Zenith Transoceanic (3000 I think) that he bought when he got out of the service in '67-'68 and sold it to a collector for a few hundred dollars in the early 90s. Then, he bought a smaller one in the 90s that looked like a boombox. I didn't really have interest in it at the time, but seems kinda cool now. His was like this:  Like everything else, Ebay has made it easy to find previously hard to find items and a clean one only goes for $150-200 now Kirk Vikernes has a new favorite as of 01:19 on Oct 20, 2016 |
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turn it up TURN ME ON posted:
It's evidently a wireless, 4-player adapter. I'd never seen one. Great post, btw.
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EVIL NOONER posted:those are not tumblr insults lol. poopsock has been used on SA forever you chode Yeah, that predates Tumblr by at least 3-4 years. Poopsocking was a big part of playing Everquest according to the threads from that era.
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One of my former students was known for making GBS threads his family's coffee table when playing video games. Also found an old HAM radio vacuum tube and a couple TV tubes in the storage room today that were left over from when the school had an electricity class. Kirk Vikernes has a new favorite as of 01:41 on Nov 3, 2016 |
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Code Jockey posted:... what? Well, poopsocking was brought up and it's basically the same thing minus the socks.
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Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:Presumably it was this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayChoice-10 There was one of those at a local supermarket when my brother and I were kids and we always played Rush N Attack.
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Nov 12, 2016 23:39
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Grand Prize Winner posted:I don't know why, but the Winchester House had one of those in about 1998 or so. Does anything at the Winchester house make sense?
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A bit late to the conversation, but bootleg DVDs are still a thing around here in manufacturing plants. I have a friend who's father works in a GM stamping plant and someone there has a nice little operation and has paper copies of the current price list that goes around and people buy movies even in 2017. Then again, here in central Indiana, we still have video rental stores....lol.
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I remember using the 37.com to search for porn because I was getting results from from 37 search engines which meant 37x the porn!
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Mak0rz posted:Also I'm pretty sure my first tubgirl sighting was in the computer lab at school. I remember outing myself during one of my classes around 2005 when some kid in my computer lab yells across the room to his buddy and tells him, "go to meatspin.com!" and I responded with a quick "Do not go to meatspin!". Then when the original kid claimed it was Dope singing the song I felt compelled to correct him and told him it was Dead or Alive, not the Dope cover. Kirk Vikernes has a new favorite as of 17:55 on Nov 9, 2017 |
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Known Lecher posted:A: 5.25" floppy drive Our Tandy 1000 EX was A: 5.25" B: 5.25" (upgraded later to 3.5") C: 40?mb hdd It seemed cool in 1987.
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mystes posted:Do most people in the US really use messaging apps like Facebook Messenger on a daily basis? I only use it because of selling loads of baby stuff from my twins on Facebook Marketplace. When I'm not selling/buying, I use it maybe a couple times a week. Otherwise, I just text people. From what I've picked up from students and a few adults that use it in place of sms is due to almost nonexistent government-supplied or prepay phone plans and they just hop onto free wifi here and there to communicate. I haven't used Yahoo! messenger in years. Maybe 2004-ish.
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FilthyImp posted:My elementary was all in on computing, Mine was, too. We had a bunch of Apple IIe and TI-99/4A.
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I was born in 75 and the only B&W TV we had was the one my dad had in the shop area of our garage. He built our first color TV the same year I was born with a kit from Heathkit. It was a console style and it was well thought out kit with most of the guts mounted to a slide out tray that was easily serviceable. That thing was heavy as hell, though.
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Trabant posted:Thank you for mentioning this -- I had no idea it was a thing and it's kinda This is the model he built:  That TV was in the living until we moved a second time in 1990, he passed it on to a friend of his. It was really reliable except every 6 months or so, he'd have to slide that tray out and play with the fine tuning for the tuner and then it would be good again.
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ElwoodCuse posted:I had a little black and white 5" TV next to my bed all through the 90s. UHF, VHF, AM/FM, all that poo poo. I would put on Simpsons reruns while I did my homework in high school and watch David Letterman and SNL on it. The bottom had a compartment for like 8 C batteries too. My dad had a Sony Watchman that he bought in the late 80s and used it at work for a while. I don't remember how many batteries it took, but I do remember it was one of the few things that could rival a Game Gear in a battery-draining contest.
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GI_Clutch posted:Today's tech relic: I walked into the den to play my guitar and saw printed MapQuest instructions on the printer tray. My wife had to go to a retreat for work and didn't like the results Google was giving her (she doesn't want to take the interstate during rush hour), so she used MapQuest. And printed them out. Lol
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