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All this talk of C64 demos and no one's posted Edge of Disgrace yet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19b4jDP83fA Also http://www.pouet.net/ is a great resource for all things demoscene.
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TIME just had an article about the "Weird Stuff Warehouse" which has some interesting curiosities. And it happens to mention the RCA SlectaVision.  A pricey alternative to LaserDisc using the old faithful vinyl to delver sound and picture. It was panned from day 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnzs6IgMc2E BogDew has a new favorite as of 03:26 on May 3, 2014 |
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May 3, 2014 03:20
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May 3, 2014 03:23
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Oh, man, I'm only into this commercial by about 90s seconds and it's painful. It's right up there with the CD-I infomercial from the 90s where a man goes to speak with a electronic God for the meaning of life and learns it's the CD-I. Edit: What kind of messed up party was this couple having? Mom wakes up the next morning, dad's nowhere to be seen, you're still there and watching the kids in the living room. JediTalentAgent has a new favorite as of 03:37 on May 3, 2014 |
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May 3, 2014 03:31
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 I'm trying to figure out what this thing is. Clearly it's a dual display monitor of sorts with the top one being adjustable. And from the looks of it, speakers and a webcam. I suspect it's a old Kiosk display.
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May 3, 2014 05:45
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WebDog posted:And it happens to mention the RCA SlectaVision. Oh man, a roommate of mine had one of these, plus about fifty movies, that he picked up at a flea market in '07 for like $80. It was weird in that the picture quality was generally better than VHS, but still had those little analog glitches.
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May 3, 2014 06:38
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WebDog posted:
I would guess some kiosk or displays for some specialty equipment, yeah. Medical maybe? Also, I want to visit this store.
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May 3, 2014 06:52
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Code Jockey posted:I would guess some kiosk or displays for some specialty equipment, yeah. Medical maybe? Weird Stuff is pretty cool, although honestly I find a lot of it to be overpriced. I bought a sweet rotating blue light (like on an old style cop car) for $10, though, which was a good buy. But $150 for a 15 year old iMac is pretty out of line, though.
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May 3, 2014 06:56
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Pham Nuwen posted:Weird Stuff is pretty cool, although honestly I find a lot of it to be overpriced.
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May 3, 2014 07:12
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WebDog posted:The guy in the TIME magazine left buying a 5 1/4" disk for $10. A box of 8" floppies for $10. That's kind of high but hell, back when people were actually using 3.5" floppies I bought a box of 10 for $10. 8" floppies are cool as hell, I have a box around here somewhere. Edit: they really are super floppy, by the way.
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May 3, 2014 07:26
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 5's were kinda cool for re-purposing into CD slips.
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May 3, 2014 07:39
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WebDog posted:
You kids and your fancy 'standards', we had some more obscure disk formats, like the 2.8" quickdisc:  (used on a variety of obscure Musical instruments (Roland and Akai samplers), Home computers (Triton QD for C64 or ZX Spectrum), and games consoles/wanna-be-computers (Mattel Aquarius & Nintendo NES - as the famicom disk)) Or the even more obscure endless tape loop formats:  (Rotronics 'Wafa' for the 'wafadrive', held 120KB, took about the same amount of time as a tape to load  - this was the exciting future that I owned)e: and because that wafa image doesn't give any scale, have another wafa:  Yes, they really made wafas that were 32KB storage and couldn't hold the contents of your computer's memory, no-one really knows why* * (although we do, the 32KB wafa had a load time of like 15 seconds, so they could claim to be competitive with the diskette standards, even though you couldn't load anything useful in that time) SybilVimes has a new favorite as of 13:06 on May 3, 2014 |
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May 3, 2014 12:52
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Put that into perspective that the C64 could store roughly 150 kBytes per side of a C90 tape unless you used a turboloader, in which case you could get up to 600kBytes per side.
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May 3, 2014 13:43
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Christmas Present posted:Oh man, a roommate of mine had one of these, plus about fifty movies, that he picked up at a flea market in '07 for like $80. It was weird in that the picture quality was generally better than VHS, but still had those little analog glitches. Capacitance Electronic Disk (the real name of this format) is theoretically about the same quality as VHS recorded in SP mode. That is, it should have about the same amount of detail and clarity. But most people say that it looked better. It did have some disadvantages. It was not recordable. Disk held 1 hour per side and had to be flipped. The CEDs were read by a stylus that physically contacted the disk, like a record player, and video quality degraded with each viewing due to the physical wear.
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Lowen SoDium posted:Capacitance Electronic Disk (the real name of this format) is theoretically about the same quality as VHS recorded in SP mode. That is, it should have about the same amount of detail and clarity. But most people say that it looked better. This is what it looks like: 
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May 3, 2014 18:48
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May 3, 2014 22:13
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Mister Kingdom posted:This is what it looks like: There are a ton of those at Weirdstuff as of today... Pretty poor selection of laserdiscs, but in the past I bought A Clockwork Orange there on LD. They also had one of those Polaroid video projector things from earlier in the thread.
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May 4, 2014 06:45
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SybilVimes posted:You kids and your fancy 'standards', we had some more obscure disk formats, like the 2.8" quickdisc gently caress Quickdiscs then (for being horribly slow) and now (for dropping dead). Also 'Smart Media' cards, came and went too fast and now cost way too much second hand...
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May 4, 2014 10:36
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May 4, 2014 10:50
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0dB posted:Also 'Smart Media' cards, came and went too fast and now cost way too much second hand... But Smart Media cards had the advantage of looking the coolest out of all those early 2000's memory card formats:  I remember the first digital camera my dad bought in...2001/2002 used one of those, but his computer didn't have any sort of memory card reader. So he had to use this: 
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May 4, 2014 15:43
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DrBouvenstein posted:I remember the first digital camera my dad bought in...2001/2002 used one of those, but his computer didn't have any sort of memory card reader. So he had to use this: Well at least it came with Acdsee which was the gold standard way back when.
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May 4, 2014 15:58
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WebDog posted:TIME just had an article about the "Weird Stuff Warehouse" which has some interesting curiosities. Interestingly enough, while the actual players were ridiculously expensive, the discs were pretty cheap- cheaper, to be sure, than any VHS or Beta movies at the time.
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May 4, 2014 17:00
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Maxwell Lord posted:Interestingly enough, while the actual players were ridiculously expensive, the discs were pretty cheap- cheaper, to be sure, than any VHS or Beta movies at the time. They were less than 20 Dollars - Would you like another cheese puff?
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May 4, 2014 17:14
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What kind of quiche was it? Do you think the kids got any?
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May 4, 2014 17:21
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Sony crams 185Tb of data onto a standard cassette. It's voodoo, I tell ya!
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May 4, 2014 19:11
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Mister Kingdom posted:Sony crams 185Tb of data onto a standard cassette. It's also not a standard cassette.
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May 4, 2014 19:18
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Snaguaro posted:It's also not a standard cassette. drat stupid picture!
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May 4, 2014 19:28
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Mister Kingdom posted:drat stupid picture! Apparently "reading" is the obsolete technology, since the article was only 200 words long.
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May 4, 2014 20:19
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Collateral Damage posted:LOAD"GIANA SISTERS",8,1 I suspect most people went with the lazy shortcut and used LOAD"*",8,1 for everything.
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May 4, 2014 20:42
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Pham Nuwen posted:Apparently "reading" is the obsolete technology, since the article was only 200 words long. Well duh, all important news come in 140 characters or less these days.
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May 4, 2014 20:51
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Pham Nuwen posted:Apparently "reading" is the obsolete technology, since the article was only 200 words long. I can see how it's possible to misread the title, "Sony Crams 3,700 Blu-Rays' Worth of Storage in a Single Cassette Tape", and the part of the story that says, "meaning a cassette could hold 185 TB of data".
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Mister Kingdom posted:I can see how it's possible to misread the title, "Sony Crams 3,700 Blu-Rays' Worth of Storage in a Single Cassette Tape", and the part of the story that says, "meaning a cassette could hold 185 TB of data". Took you a while to learn journalism is poo poo huh. The actual article did make it relatively clear eventually but dumb sensationalist headlines have been par for the course since journalism was invented. edit: as for my favourite not quite but basically obsolete technology for a lot of the world now: non-digital radio. I still remember living in germany with my dad cooking to an incredibly crackly, barely understandable broadcast of The Archers on a huge radio with a time zone map of the world on it while cooking. These days he does the same but on his iPad with every other word doubling up because of his lovely connection. The more things change... NLJP has a new favorite as of 21:48 on May 4, 2014 |
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m2pt5 posted:I suspect most people went with the lazy shortcut and used LOAD"*",8,1 for everything. Yep! I remember some stuff I couldn't do this with though, it'd explicitly tell me that I needed to specify the program name to load. This is because LOAD"*" grabs the first title and loads it, and some software didn't have the main program as the first program on the disk. Maybe the manual/demos/a pile of other pirated stuff since no one ever had legit copies of software on the C64 came first in the index. 
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Humphreys posted:These wonderful places If there is one thing I miss from VA it's this place http://www.goochlanddriveintheater.com/. Hell they even managed to get upgraded to a pure digital setup. $8 bucks to see 2 movies, food is way way cheaper than other theaters, no idiots making enough noise to bother me. Can't beat $3.75 for an honestly large thing of popcorn  Though I usually got a burger.
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10 PRINT "BONERS" 20 GOTO 10 I still make mine do this occasionally. The classics never die.
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Code Jockey posted:10 PRINT "BONERS" I used to do that on Radio Shack display computers except I would substitute "Radio Shack sucks" for boners.
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NLJP posted:edit: as for my favourite not quite but basically obsolete technology for a lot of the world now: non-digital radio. Tell that to my car
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