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The_Raven posted:Hmmm... let's see... I had these too, originally purchased for my mom as I recall. I... I think mine were published before the Moon landing, sometime in the mid 60s. I read them a lot throughout middle school.
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Dogan posted:I just noticed in my B&H catalog today: The Kensington EXPERT MOUSE is still being produced Yessssss. The greatest. If you're set up to do Pro Tools with anything else, forget it. The new Blade ones aren't quite the same. strangemusic has a new favorite as of 00:08 on May 9, 2014 |
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The_Raven posted:Hmmm... let's see... I did the same thing. I have been tempted more than once to buy a set off ebay, but only in the library binding.
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May 9, 2014 00:48
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The_Raven posted:Much later I had a great PDA/smartphone, the Audiovox Thera. With a outboard GPS receiver on my dash, I had excellent results, and the 1X data gave me real-time traffic data to boot. Plus it was a pretty decent smartphone, surfed the web, played music and video... All this in 2002! Verizon screwed me after a couple years because it couldn't do Enhanced 911. Ok, I was wrong earlier. My first smartphone wasn't a Samsung, it was this POS. I mean...I'm sure it was great in 2002, but I got mine in 2004/2005, so it was out of date. And those drat little plastic trim pieces on the side were always falling off! 
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May 9, 2014 01:05
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:You could also try the Virtually Indestructible Keyboard: Ha, when I was in the military I was on a detail and the civilian was showing us what to do when he picked up one of these, mutilated, and noted sadly that it was "...supposed to be indestructible."
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Dogan posted:I just noticed in my B&H catalog today: The Kensington EXPERT MOUSE is still being produced So, your hand doesn't hit the lower buttons accidentally? I've considered them as I need a replacement for the Logitech Marble Mouse I've had for about 12 years. The Logitech ones are still in production as well, incidentally, however they still do not have any sort of scroll wheel. You'd be surprised how many games use the scroll wheel in a way that can't be remapped or duplicated via other simple means.
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When I was a kid I got my great-grandparent's set of encyclopedias. So old that Rockerfeller's entry had a dash after his birth year. electrohead posted:So, your hand doesn't hit the lower buttons accidentally? I've considered them as I need a replacement for the Logitech Marble Mouse I've had for about 12 years. The Logitech ones are still in production as well, incidentally, however they still do not have any sort of scroll wheel. You'd be surprised how many games use the scroll wheel in a way that can't be remapped or duplicated via other simple means. You control the ball with your fingertips and the buttons require a reasonable amount of force to click. I never had an issue with accidental pressings. The thing about that model is it loving sucks for the first 48 hours of use. Like, "OMG where did I put the receipt" levels of sucking. Then it breaks in and suddenly it's the best input device you ever used.
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May 9, 2014 14:04
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Unfortunately, the scroll ring never stops sucking, it feels so cheap 
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May 9, 2014 14:08
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atomicthumbs posted:Jesus christ don't recommend people try to type on these things, that's horribly cruel Y'all just hatin'--I used that fucker so much that I wore the goddamn letters off the home row. It was easily the best keyboard I've ever owned, and I only paid fifteen bucks for it. I mean, come on, it's a spill-proof keyboard you can roll up and toss in your bag for work or school or whatever. And, it's silent. Big project you're pulling an all-nighter on and don't want to wake the missus? This guy's got you covered.  you guys are totally right, it's bad and I should feel bad for loving the hell out of it
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The_Raven posted:Hmmm... let's see... OK, I admit it. I was 'that guy' who went straight to 'Africa' cos of boobies. I do wonder whatever happened to that room spanning collection of Encyclopedia Britannica, and I would love to have it again. I fear my parents threw them out about the time we got Encarta with our wizzbang Win95 machine.
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My family still has the '97 World Book; I think that a demo of Encarta '98 might still be lying around somewhere too. Those blocky volcano clips were so fun to watch. 
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That reminds me, does anyone else remember Cinemania? It was a MS program that was a lot like a proto-IMDB, with pictures and reviews, and even a few video clips, which was a big deal back then.
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Vinyl record changers. Remarkable mechanical technology, some of these vids also show the inner workings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73_CQAfQON8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFcrEta9HKk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4mwd-p8Ma4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfI21OD4gcs Hat tip to the metafilter thread where I found this.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:My family still has the '97 World Book; I think that a demo of Encarta '98 might still be lying around somewhere too. Before I wad able to convince my parents to spring for Wing Commander/MechWarrior 2, I spent many long hours in the little quiz map game included with Encarta. And am I the only one who begged for the Collier set?
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We've talked different film and cameras before, and I can't remember if we've mentioned the '110 spy camera'. I remember it being really pushed around the time of the film "Leonard Part 6", so I think it might have had a part or just been a promotional thing in the movie, but it was a barely more than a 110 film cartridge case with a lens on it. Extremely small, very low grade. Eventually even after their initial push with the movie they showed up everywhere and they kept selling them for probably quite a few years until more traditional 110s started to be cheaper and/or phased out. I guess it's design is more commonly known as a "Micro 110"
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Coffee And Pie posted:That reminds me, does anyone else remember Cinemania? It was a MS program that was a lot like a proto-IMDB, with pictures and reviews, and even a few video clips, which was a big deal back then. I had that, plus Music Central. I also recall they had DLC updates. I must have watched the clip from Star Wars and a clip of a ZZ Top concert 100s of times. My brother also found a movie clip that had a swear, it may have been from Jaws? That was a good one too.
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JediTalentAgent posted:We've talked different film and cameras before, and I can't remember if we've mentioned the '110 spy camera'. I got a Leonard Part 6 branded 110 camera from a Ponderosa Steakhouse promotion. Pretty much no one in real life believes me when I tell them this.   vvv Christmas Present posted:It seems kind of cliche to say so, but holy crap the Leonard 6 micro camera looks bulky and chunky as all hell compared to tiny digicams. Maybe the sodas were just smaller. moller has a new favorite as of 00:28 on May 10, 2014 |
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I had a cheap 110 camera as a kid in the early 90s, little more than a flat box with enough space for the film cartridge and flash capacitors. This was more or less ignored when 35mm one-time-use cameras came into vogue; I remember my mom buying bulk packs of the Kodak OTU cameras when we went on vacation, for my brother and I to use- she had her own higher-end 35mm, took a step backwards in dropping a huge amount of money on a Mavica, then got a Sony DSLR about five or six years ago that she still uses. It seems kind of cliche to say so, but holy crap the Leonard 6 micro camera looks bulky and chunky as all hell compared to tiny digicams.
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You guys want some obsolete tech? I got a stack of ten Intel i486 CPUs Anyone want them?
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minato posted:Vinyl record changers. Remarkable mechanical technology, some of these vids also show the inner workings: I just noticed it said on the video description too, but the RC-100 is very rare owing to the ship carrying most of them being sunk by a U-Boat.
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Just had this mental image of the wreck being found centuries later and it being a sort of Antikythera machine as people puzzle over what a RC-100 does.
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Coffee And Pie posted:That reminds me, does anyone else remember Cinemania? It was a MS program that was a lot like a proto-IMDB, with pictures and reviews, and even a few video clips, which was a big deal back then. Oh wow, yes - it was in the MS software pack we got bundled with the (AST! Cyrix! Win3.11fW!) 486, together with Encarta and MS Golf (for whatever reason). Being a Norwegian preteen with a limited interest in movies, I watched a few clips as novelties. MS Golf, OTOH, was great.  (I spent a lot of time with Encarta, too. Does anyone else remember the fractal tree drawing thing it had?) Computer viking has a new favorite as of 02:20 on May 10, 2014 |
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Computer viking posted:(I spent a lot of time with Encarta, too. Does anyone else remember the fractal tree drawing thing it had?)
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GreenNight posted:You guys want some obsolete tech? I got a stack of ten Intel i486 CPUs Wooooow the graphic on the chip is a total nostalgia trigger. Man I remember how badass my first 386 was. A Packard Bell I think? Playing Links 386 on that was awesome. For some reason this made me remember when my friend got a super early Gateway, I want to say it was a P200? I remember something was funky with its PCI port size, like normal cards wouldn't fit right. I think it was the case, the bus size was normal.
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Lowen SoDium posted:Forever was a hyperbole, I should have said for the last 14 years. But I stand by my statement. You could argue that the iPod was easier to use than other players or that it's UI was better and you might be right. But I don't think that is what sold them. Yeah, I'd been using MP3 players for years when the ipod came out and it just switched people's questions from "Is that a minidisc player?" to "Why does your ipod look so weird?". Used this for many years and still miss it:  I dropped it really hard and broke the screen, you cannot get a screen for this fucker for love or money as it seems that is always the part that breaks. the 1.8" mechanical hard drive works fine, but it only played one album because I couldn't see to change it. Now I have a Sandisk Sansa Clip and it does the job ok.
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Valfar posted:I still have this thing, and use it occasionally. It's the iRiver H320, and it's still working great. Works as a standard USB mass storage device, so just plug it in and transfer files. Currently running the latest version of RockBox! I had the iRiver H340 for years and it was pretty drat good. When the battery died I got a replacement on eBay and kept using it until I killed it dropping it into a sink full of water, soap and dirty dishes. Fantastic sound quality, and I really liked that it worked just like an USB drive and didn't need any software installed at all.
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GreenNight posted:You guys want some obsolete tech? I got a stack of ten Intel i486 CPUs Aren't these worth a reasonable amount of money due to having all gold pins or something? I'm sure I read about someone making a fortune after the Berlin wall came down buying up obsolete soviet electronics and melting then down for the high gold content compared to "modern" equipment.
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:Aren't these worth a reasonable amount of money due to having all gold pins or something? I'm sure I read about someone making a fortune after the Berlin wall came down buying up obsolete soviet electronics and melting then down for the high gold content compared to "modern" equipment. I have also thought about this in one of my 'get rich quick and screw the suckers' phases. I gave up after seeing the types of chemicals required and knowing my neighbourhood, explain to the police that I am not cooking drugs.
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WebDog posted:I preferred the little moon orbit example. You could kick it in at the right angle to make some nice spirograph patterns. I eventually got a standalone (Win3.1) program that let me set up an arbitrary number of objects and set their mass and initial velocity/direction of travel. Quite neat. 
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pienipple posted:Used this for many years and still miss it: I have that very same player, in black. The screen must have broke during a move which I found out a year or so later when I unpacked it. Was easy enough to get all the music off though.
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Humphreys posted:I have also thought about this in one of my 'get rich quick and screw the suckers' phases. I gave up after seeing the types of chemicals required and knowing my neighbourhood, explain to the police that I am not cooking drugs.
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Computer viking posted:
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:Aren't these worth a reasonable amount of money due to having all gold pins or something? I'm sure I read about someone making a fortune after the Berlin wall came down buying up obsolete soviet electronics and melting then down for the high gold content compared to "modern" equipment. I told a guy I'll send them to him for $20, which I'm fine with. Been sitting in a box for drat near 20 years so.
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GreenNight posted:You guys want some obsolete tech? I got a stack of ten Intel i486 CPUs Would have loved one of these back in high school. I was running a 486DX at 33MHz at a time when the PIII was the modern chip. The DX2 would have doubled my clock rate to 66MHz.
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Pham Nuwen posted:Would have loved one of these back in high school. I was running a 486DX at 33MHz at a time when the PIII was the modern chip. The DX2 would have doubled my clock rate to 66MHz. I had a box with the fastest 486 chip in the world in it: a 486DX4 133. Thing was faster than the Pentium 60s.
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b0nes posted:HitClips!! CD's are now obsolete! I had hoped that they would release these like they were some bullshit booster pack for a collectible card game. You'd accumulate so many N'Sync deep cuts
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Phanatic posted:I had a box with the fastest 486 chip in the world in it: a 486DX4 133. Thing was faster than the Pentium 60s. Wow, I thought the DX4's stopped at 100MHz. I had a DX4 75, because my motherboard didn't support the 100. These were the Overdrive chips. With 8 megs of ram. Awwww yeahhhh.
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JediTalentAgent posted:We've talked different film and cameras before, and I can't remember if we've mentioned the '110 spy camera'. YES! I got one of these http://www.acsupplyco.com/estes/estes_astrocam.htm and could not find the 110 film locally. It also destroyed itself on first launch due to shoddy construction and a non opening parachute  .
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:I must've spent hundreds of hours playing Space Trader on that thing. I also read fuckloads of ebooks on that thing, typically when I was supposed to be doing something else.
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Zemyla posted:I also read fuckloads of ebooks on that thing, typically when I was supposed to be doing something else.  I had one of these HPs during high school, ran dos and windows 3.0. I played a poo poo ton of monopoly for dos in class.
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