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Powerful Two-Hander posted:With a name like the "UNITY SYSTEM" it sounds like a Twilight zone episode where the family become part of the system. My first thought was "It's a Unity system, I know this!"
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Things I haven't thought about in probably a decade: Kai's Power Goo
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GreenNight posted:Here is a url to a group of pictures of some badass old tech: L-l-l-lo-look at you hacker.
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GreenNight posted:Here is a url to a group of pictures of some badass old tech: gently caress, it's the first response in this thread too. 
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Code Jockey posted:Things I haven't thought about in probably a decade: Kai's Power Goo
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Sham bam bamina! posted:I love the comments there. "Monochrome display? WOW ITS JUST LIKE FALLOUT ON XBOX" Monochrome display? It's just like the monitor I played (well, watched my sister play, and totally screwed up in every way if I was on my own because I was three) Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego on 
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The worst part: I can still probably navigate through that easier than the latest version of Office I tried out.
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:With a name like the "UNITY SYSTEM" it sounds like a Twilight zone episode where the family become part of the system. I notice he doesn't say what happened to the Garcia family.
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John Big Booty posted:Some things you block out to protect yourself. Hey now, there's nothing wrong with Kai's Power Goo. I had loads of fun with that in the ancient times.
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Code Jockey posted:Things I haven't thought about in probably a decade: Kai's Power Goo To quote Kai: quote:These days I get such questions all the time… “So where are you? What were you doing? Why are you back now? What is that Frax thing anyway?”
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JediTalentAgent posted:The worst part: I can still probably navigate through that easier than the latest version of Office I tried out. The Ribbon really screwed us over mate. Supposed to make everything easier, but nope.
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God dammit, I know people using Vista whose desktops look this bad (minus Bonzi Buddy of course.) Like... no concept of "folders" ever entered into their head and they'll click anything the computer tells them to click. This is the pinnacle of horror. Also: I bet in five years when this thread is called "post your favourite obsolete and failed technology 2: Ouya Appreciation Station" the Ribbon will be in the OP. strangemusic has a new favorite as of 14:56 on May 31, 2014 |
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When I was a kid I thought Bonzi Buddy was the coolest thing. But he couldn't quite do everything I wanted, so I started hacking together my own thing in vbscript. Which probably also belongs in this thread, come to think of it... Oh, and there's one good game on Ouya now! (Because they promised it during the kickstarter, before the thing came out...)
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Keiya posted:When I was a kid I thought Bonzi Buddy was the coolest thing. But he couldn't quite do everything I wanted, so I started hacking together my own thing in vbscript. Which probably also belongs in this thread, come to think of it... Which game? I'm out of the loop on it.
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JediTalentAgent posted:The worst part: I can still probably navigate through that easier than the latest version of Office I tried out. Embrace the Ribbon. Love the Ribbon.
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Humphreys posted:Which game? I'm out of the loop on it. I guess Broken Age. Also, play Broken Age, but on a practice platform.
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This fits this the thread. http://www.analogplanet.com/content/famous-swiss-tape-recorder-brand-re-introduce-reel-reel-analog-recorder quote:Famous Swiss Tape Recorder Brand To Re-introduce Reel-to-Reel Analog Recorder!
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The Ape of Naples posted:This fits this the thread. NOT TO DIVULGE THE NAME: Studer, doyyy  That's like saying "not to divulge the name of a famous carmaker founded by Henry F. in America" strangemusic has a new favorite as of 03:10 on Jun 1, 2014 |
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strangemusic posted:NOT TO DIVULGE THE NAME: To be fair someone pointed out that there are a bunch of companies from there that it could be. But yeah, Studer is the most obvious choice.
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The Ape of Naples posted:This fits this the thread. Hey does that mean I might be able to get freshly made tape for my reel-to-reel machine? Sweet...
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Pham Nuwen posted:Hey does that mean I might be able to get freshly made tape for my reel-to-reel machine? Sweet... gently caress yeah. 30 year old tape is like a ribbon of Gummy Bear.
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0dB posted:gently caress yeah. 30 year old tape is like a ribbon of Gummy Bear. Yeah, if you're not careful it's easy to lose a second or two off the start of the tape each time you load it--oops, poo poo, broke the loving tape.
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Keiya posted:When I was a kid I thought Bonzi Buddy was the coolest thing. But he couldn't quite do everything I wanted, so I started hacking together my own thing in vbscript. Which probably also belongs in this thread, come to think of it... Windows environments are still held together with vbscript. Powershell may have superceded it but there are a lot of people who refuse to learn new things (even though powershell is clearly superior in every way).
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Pham Nuwen posted:Hey does that mean I might be able to get freshly made tape for my reel-to-reel machine? Sweet... I haven't used tape in quite some time but I though ATR was still making tape. It's probably pretty expensive. http://atrtape.com/
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Hmm, almost makes me wish that I had tried to fix the old Tandberg reel-to-reels instead of giving them away.
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I used to have a 5-bit ticker tape printer but could never get it to interface with a modern computer. I had no documentation so no idea what protocol it used, probably something proprietary. It sat in my storage unit for a while, then threw it out when I moved which I kinda regret cause it was a pretty unit.
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Collateral Damage posted:I used to have a 5-bit ticker tape printer but could never get it to interface with a modern computer. I had no documentation so no idea what protocol it used, probably something proprietary. Occasionally I have that thought "which piece of equipment I use and abuse now will become one of those rare as rocking-horse poo poo item in 50 years"
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:
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It's locked up in storage somewhere, but as a kid my parents inherited (someone bequeathed it to them because I remember it was helluva expensive at the time) like a Westinghouse portable reel-to-reel tape player/recorder. It had a big white metal lid to protect the reel assembly that popped off by pressing two buttons. It was big as a portable typewriter and came with a microphone that resembled the communicators used in the pilot episode of Star Trek, The Cage. It had tubes inside that were visible through the speaker grille and you had to wait 30 seconds or so until audio would go live. I don't know how they defined portable back then as it had to be plugged in and had no batteries, and it must have weighed 30-40 pounds, but my dad had managed to use it to tape some weddings and musical events. All I remember is having hours of fun recording myself, or my brother trying to record over my tracks, on one well-worn blank tape. The thing had these white ivory buttons (PLAY/RECORD/STOP) that required punishing amounts of strength to push down and a little analog counter you could reset that rarely was accurate. It also had a tinny built-in speaker, though we preferred to play it through a cheap Radio Shack stereo system. My folks were glad to see us kids having fun with it because they gave up early on. It still works, but the last time I powered it up was three years ago. Binary Badger has a new favorite as of 14:36 on Jun 2, 2014 |
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When I was in grade school I remember we got to watch presentations that were pictures shown by a slide projector accompanied by a soundtrack that came on reel. The teacher had a "portable" reel to reel player that she'd haul out and set up on the desk, and the sound track would have a beep or ding sound to signal that it was time to change slide.
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Collateral Damage posted:When I was in grade school I remember we got to watch presentations that were pictures shown by a slide projector accompanied by a soundtrack that came on reel. The teacher had a "portable" reel to reel player that she'd haul out and set up on the desk, and the sound track would have a beep or ding sound to signal that it was time to change slide. How was the 1960s?
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This was mid/late 80s. Google tells me most of those tapes were from the early/mid 70s. Underfunded public schools. 
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When I was in grade 1 in the 90's we still had the reel to reel wheeled out. But I remember my school being pretty tech forwards so the C64's were replaced by macs in my second year and the reel to reel was replaced by a large-ish TV wheeled around on a trolley. Oh the time wasted making MYST knockoffs in Hypercard and bleeding owls in Kids Pix and 8bit black and white scanned images of that ACK! cat. Overhead and slide projectors I guess you could tally as obsolete tech nowadays, given most classrooms tend to have a PC hooked into a projector. Friends who are teachers talk of there being rooms filled with stacks of them. The Internet arrived in 1997 so that viral "welcome to the Internet", despite being dreadful in it's production values, was pretty indicative of the time when everyone was getting their head around the purpose of it. And stuff like this...  But I recall there being a poster of a platypus surfing the web, wearing VG goggles. Everything seemed to have a surfboard motif. And the @ symbol suddenly appeared everywhere; "entering the new millennium...it's F@nt@stic!" Every one who rubbished it as being a useless service pretty much rely on it 24/7. Even my grandfather, who swore computers were a communist plot, uses it now and then.
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Collateral Damage posted:This was mid/late 80s. Google tells me most of those tapes were from the early/mid 70s. We had them here in Canada, though they were on cassette and by then they advanced automatically with the ding. We knew them as filmstrips, but searching for that on YouTube only seems to produce results of a busty woman talking about nerdy movies.
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WebDog posted:Every one who rubbished it as being a useless service pretty much rely on it 24/7. Even my grandfather, who swore computers were a communist plot, uses it now and then. Within the last year I overheard somebody saying that Facebook was just a flash in the pan.
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Antifreeze Head posted:We had them here in Canada, though they were on cassette and by then they advanced automatically with the ding. We had filmstrips when I was a kid. They were like a cartridge that was inserted into the projector. You'd have the soundtrack on a cassette and when it dinged the teacher would advance to the next image. Every so often they'd wheel in a huge black and white TV for us to watch some government programs, like when there was a growing interest in the metric system, or when Kosmos 954 was dropping out of orbit. EDIT: Here's a filmstrip projector 
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