I just threw away a box of theseWikipedia posted:A video floppy, also known as a VF disk, could store up to 25 frames either in the NTSC or PAL video standards, with each frame containing 2 fields of interlaced video.
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# ? Aug 22, 2014 01:44 |
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# ? Apr 18, 2024 12:54 |
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Dogan posted:I just threw away a box of these I would have bought some of those from you
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# ? Aug 22, 2014 01:51 |
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Dogan posted:I just threw away a box of these 50 seconds? So it's a Vine on a disk. Wow.
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# ? Aug 22, 2014 02:27 |
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25 frames? Not seconds, or minutes, but frames?!
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# ? Aug 22, 2014 02:27 |
It's a gif disk
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# ? Aug 22, 2014 02:31 |
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It was an earlier version of what broadcast studios call a "still store" and use for things like technical difficulty slates and graphics backgrounds. The output of a paused tape machine isn't usually pretty for such purposes. It's also a nice way to pass frames to a thermal printer, which I assume is what the doctors mentioned in the link used it for.
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# ? Aug 22, 2014 02:45 |
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Three-Phase posted:25 frames? Not seconds, or minutes, but frames?! Simply "taking a screenshot" back in the 90's on early analogue/digital editing systems was pretty tricky. I'm sure there might have been a function built into the Paintbox systems that were in use, but in general you would have a light-box with a video camera pointed straight down, and then place the photo on it and hit record. Or, if you wanted to get fancy, it was possible to actually print-screen via a little photo printer that would spit out the video output in three passes of R,G,B. One color would print, then the photo sucked back in for the next. Then we discovered it was possible to hook up After Effects into the Paintbox's renderdisk via a capture card and send through stills that way. I wasn't expecting a system a decade old to be able to do a round-trip.
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# ? Aug 22, 2014 02:48 |
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WebDog posted:It's meant for stills capture of video which,as noted by the wiki, is incredibly useful for stills capture for TV broadcasts, medical and research. Forget that stuff, imaging in the 90s was all about this thing:
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# ? Aug 22, 2014 06:30 |
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Pity some of the planned features, such as insert your face onto Perfect Dark characters, "Perfect Head", was removed out of concerns that kids would put other kids faces on and kill them.
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# ? Aug 22, 2014 06:53 |
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WebDog posted:Pity some of the planned features, such as insert your face onto Perfect Dark characters, "Perfect Head", was removed out of concerns that kids would put other kids faces on and kill them. I fail to see the problem.
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# ? Aug 22, 2014 07:06 |
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The game came out in 2000, there was a major thing that happened just a year ago and potentially had ties to video games.
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# ? Aug 22, 2014 07:12 |
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Elliotw2 posted:The game came out in 2000, there was a major thing that happened just a year ago and potentially had ties to video games. I'm not sure what President Clinton's impeachment had to do with videogames
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# ? Aug 22, 2014 12:38 |
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strangemusic posted:Forget that stuff, imaging in the 90s was all about this thing: Many years ago I remember one of those coming through my office as someone had printed child porn from it. Given the resolution and the quality of the prints it was not exactly graphic.
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# ? Aug 22, 2014 13:06 |
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DNova posted:I would have bought some of those from you
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# ? Aug 22, 2014 13:08 |
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Gromit posted:Many years ago I remember one of those coming through my office as someone had printed child porn from it. Given the resolution and the quality of the prints it was not exactly graphic. Man, CP has spoiled every single bit of technology for you, hasn't it?
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# ? Aug 22, 2014 13:34 |
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I think there was some conversation a really long time ago about bank passbooks. Here's and old one I own. Not really sure what the "Three C's Club" was, but they were serious enough to incorporate with the NC Secretary of State at one point. Sideways, sorry. The bank would write all transactions in the book, and having it on your person was proof enough you were authorized to use the account. This one began in early 1940 with a "Balance forth" amount, so it's not their first book. Here's the last pages from the book (pages 9 and 10.) Interestingly, it has a transaction taking place on Saturday, December 6, 1941. Their banking activity seems to have slowed down significantly after that point. Also, it ends in 194? with an overdraft of $1.88.
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# ? Aug 23, 2014 07:10 |
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two forty posted:I think there was some conversation a really long time ago about bank passbooks. Here's and old one I own. I still have an account with a book. They don't have the equipment anymore to print the transactions in it so they'd have to write them by hand if I withdrew any money with it. I've kept it because the interest rate is hell of better than in new accounts and they can't/won't issue a card for the old account. The book has a gold-embossed picture of Henri Hippo on the cover because I was four when the account was opened.
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# ? Aug 23, 2014 09:10 |
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two forty posted:I think there was some conversation a really long time ago about bank passbooks. Here's and old one I own. These are still standard for bank accounts in Asia, or at least Korea and Japan. I have one for my Korean bank account.
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# ? Aug 23, 2014 09:28 |
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Something very similar is standard for accounts here in Greece as well I believe, you can use it to do withdrawals and deposits etc. and get it printed with the account balance, amount changed etc. Even if you do online banking, when you take it to the bank, your transaction history still gets printed too. (A bit better explanation in the morning)
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# ? Aug 25, 2014 23:44 |
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Serperoth posted:Something very similar is standard for accounts here in Greece as well I believe, you can use it to do withdrawals and deposits etc. and get it printed with the account balance, amount changed etc. You can still request your bank to give you the account booklet. Its a nightmare to use if you use a debit card since every time you visit the bank to deposit, they'll have to print out EVERY transaction. This turns a 10 minute visit to a bank to a 30 or 40 minute visit.
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# ? Aug 26, 2014 00:16 |
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two forty posted:I think there was some conversation a really long time ago about bank passbooks. Here's and old one I own. Honestly, the person probably died and the bank didn't pursue it.
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# ? Aug 26, 2014 00:50 |
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That's a let down, I was hoping the account had like $30 in it since 1943, imagine the interest accrued.
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# ? Aug 26, 2014 00:57 |
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Sappo569 posted:That's a let down, I was hoping the account had like $30 in it since 1943, imagine the interest accrued. It would be around $90 to $500 today, most likely near the lower end of that range. Not very exciting.
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# ? Aug 26, 2014 01:15 |
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DNova posted:It would be around $90 to $500 today, most likely near the lower end of that range. $413.69 says dollartimes.com I still think it'd be neat
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# ? Aug 26, 2014 01:23 |
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Sappo569 posted:$413.69 says dollartimes.com
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# ? Aug 26, 2014 02:31 |
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That bank actually still exists (under that name which is pretty remarkable as far as banks go) and has a branch across the street from a bar I used to go to often when I still lived in North Carolina. I should have brought it in and seen what they could tell me, if anything. Maybe I'll bring it next time I'm up there. This book came from the flea market so I don't know its provenance. I thought it was kind of interesting that they apparently did business on Saturdays in 1941, and it has transactions the day before the Pearl Harbor attack.
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# ? Aug 26, 2014 07:26 |
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Sappo569 posted:That's a let down, I was hoping the account had like $30 in it since 1943, imagine the interest accrued. I have no idea if this is common but around here current accounts stop accruing interest if there are no transactions in a given period (I think it's ten years but I could be wrong).
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# ? Aug 26, 2014 07:30 |
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Jerry Cotton posted:I have no idea if this is common but around here current accounts stop accruing interest if there are no transactions in a given period (I think it's ten years but I could be wrong). Or they added an annual fee of $30 to the account and if two forty enters the branch carrying it, he'll be liable for the outstanding balance
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# ? Aug 26, 2014 08:54 |
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Royal W posted:I sprung $250 for a Minidisk player in 2001-02. It was badass because it came with a remote! I still have mine (Sony, it's blue and also came with a remote), but haven't used it since 2002. It was so amazing back then.
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# ? Sep 7, 2014 22:41 |
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It's not really obsolete technology, but we found a nearly 200-year-old bible cleaning out my grandmother's house. That's kinda cool, right? (No photos because holy poo poo none of us want to touch it now that we know what it is)
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# ? Sep 7, 2014 23:49 |
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Keiya posted:It's not really obsolete technology, but we found a nearly 200-year-old bible cleaning out my grandmother's house. That's kinda cool, right? (No photos because holy poo poo none of us want to touch it now that we know what it is) Was it doing a good job?
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# ? Sep 8, 2014 07:54 |
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Keiya posted:It's not really obsolete technology, but we found a nearly 200-year-old bible cleaning out my grandmother's house. That's kinda cool, right? (No photos because holy poo poo none of us want to touch it now that we know what it is) I'm fairly certain you can't contract paedophilia just by touching a bible, you also have to be ordained or whatever it's called. So it's probably safe to carry it to the nearest waste disposal site.
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# ? Sep 8, 2014 08:29 |
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Jerry Cotton posted:I'm fairly certain you can't contract paedophilia just by touching a bible, you also have to be ordained or whatever it's called. So it's probably safe to carry it to the nearest waste disposal site. Call your municipality's information line for disposal instructions.
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# ? Sep 8, 2014 08:45 |
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FFS just donate it to a church or library. They'd be thrilled to have it.
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# ? Sep 8, 2014 14:40 |
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It's going, in the immediate at least, with the rest of the documents and photos to the genealogy people in the family.
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# ? Sep 8, 2014 15:23 |
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On the topic of large game manuals, here is a few pics of my copy of the Star Trek: Klingon Academy manual, in all its ring-bound glory! Including the notes pages, it is 288 pages long.
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# ? Sep 8, 2014 18:58 |
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strangemusic posted:Forget that stuff, imaging in the 90s was all about this thing: I remember someone getting one of those + printer when i was about 11 years old in year six, the guy took a picture of a dump he took in the toilets and printed off about 50 pictures of it and handed them round school telling people to guess what they were pictures of. Needless to say they were so pixilated no one could guess.
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# ? Sep 8, 2014 19:02 |
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:These are still standard for bank accounts in Asia, or at least Korea and Japan. I have one for my Korean bank account. Seconding this for Korea. The ATMs will even take it in and update all your transactions automatically. Pretty slick even if I rarely use it.
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# ? Sep 9, 2014 13:29 |
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nullscan posted:Seconding this for Korea. The ATMs will even take it in and update all your transactions automatically. Pretty slick even if I rarely use it. edit: For the record, my wife works at a bank here in the US, and they still use bank books as well. Or more accurately, old people use them. They're called "passbooks". SLOSifl has a new favorite as of 14:55 on Sep 9, 2014 |
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Those exist as well. Plenty of Koreans do all their banking on a smartphone. You just have to have a bank book as well.
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# ? Sep 9, 2014 14:28 |