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Dogan
Aug 2, 2006
I just threw away a box of these



Wikipedia 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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sleepy gary
Jan 11, 2006

Dogan posted:

I just threw away a box of these



I would have bought some of those from you :(

strangemusic
Aug 7, 2008

I shield you because I need charge
Is not because I like you or anything!


Dogan posted:

I just threw away a box of these



50 seconds?

So it's a Vine on a disk. Wow.

Three-Phase
Aug 5, 2006

by zen death robot
25 frames? Not seconds, or minutes, but frames?!

Arrath
Apr 14, 2011


It's a gif disk :v:

eddiewalker
Apr 28, 2004

Arrrr ye landlubber
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.

BogDew
Jun 14, 2006

E:\FILES>quickfli clown.fli

Three-Phase posted:

25 frames? Not seconds, or minutes, but frames?!
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.

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.

strangemusic
Aug 7, 2008

I shield you because I need charge
Is not because I like you or anything!


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.

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.

Forget that stuff, imaging in the 90s was all about this thing:

BogDew
Jun 14, 2006

E:\FILES>quickfli clown.fli
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.

Exit Strategy
Dec 10, 2010

by sebmojo

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.

Karasu Tengu
Feb 16, 2011

Humble Tengu Newspaper Reporter
The game came out in 2000, there was a major thing that happened just a year ago and potentially had ties to video games.

GOTTA STAY FAI
Mar 24, 2005

~no glitter in the gutter~
~no twilight galaxy~
College Slice

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 :confused:

Gromit
Aug 15, 2000

I am an oppressed White Male, Asian women wont serve me! Save me Campbell Newman!!!!!!!

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.

Brexit the Frog
Aug 22, 2013

DNova posted:

I would have bought some of those from you :(

spog
Aug 7, 2004

It's your own bloody fault.

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?

pants in my pants
Aug 18, 2009

by Smythe
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.

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

two forty posted:

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.

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.

1000 Brown M and Ms
Oct 22, 2008

F:\DL>quickfli 4-clowns.fli

two forty posted:

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.

These are still standard for bank accounts in Asia, or at least Korea and Japan. I have one for my Korean bank account.

Serperoth
Feb 21, 2013



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)

TerryLennox
Oct 12, 2009

There is nothing tougher than a tough Mexican, just as there is nothing gentler than a gentle Mexican, nothing more honest than an honest Mexican, and above all nothing sadder than a sad Mexican. -R. Chandler.

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.

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)

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.

Drone_Fragger
May 9, 2007


two forty posted:

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.

Honestly, the person probably died and the bank didn't pursue it.

Blue On Blue
Nov 14, 2012

That's a let down, I was hoping the account had like $30 in it since 1943, imagine the interest accrued.

sleepy gary
Jan 11, 2006

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.

Blue On Blue
Nov 14, 2012

DNova posted:

It would be around $90 to $500 today, most likely near the lower end of that range.

Not very exciting.

$413.69 says dollartimes.com

I still think it'd be neat :mmmhmm:

Pitch
Jun 16, 2005

しらんけど

Sappo569 posted:

$413.69 says dollartimes.com

I still think it'd be neat :mmmhmm:
That's inflation. That's how much the $30 was worth originally, translated into modern dollars. But the bank account would have to earn around 4% interest annually, on average, to have actually grown that much. That would mean that you more or less broke even after 70 years. It could have grown into thousands, if decently invested, but I have no idea what the average interest rate in the '50s was.

pants in my pants
Aug 18, 2009

by Smythe
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.

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

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).

spog
Aug 7, 2004

It's your own bloody fault.

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

Rambling Robot
Sep 13, 2011
Duggar Fan Club Superstar #1 LOL

Royal W posted:

I sprung $250 for a Minidisk player in 2001-02. It was badass because it came with a remote!



the downside was that I had to record to the MDs like the cassettes of old, playing the whole CD with the MD player on record; then adding the track breaks after the fact! :v:

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.

Keiya
Aug 22, 2009

Come with me if you want to not die.
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)

uwaeve
Oct 21, 2010



focus this time so i don't have to keep telling you idiots what happened
Lipstick Apathy

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?

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

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.

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

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.

TITTIEKISSER69
Mar 19, 2005

SAVE THE BEES
PLANT MORE TREES
CLEAN THE SEAS
KISS TITTIESS




FFS just donate it to a church or library. They'd be thrilled to have it.

Keiya
Aug 22, 2009

Come with me if you want to not die.
It's going, in the immediate at least, with the rest of the documents and photos to the genealogy people in the family.

lucky13pjn
Sep 13, 2007
Really lazy bastard
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.



Feats of Strength
Feb 9, 2012

Man, If god told me to sacrifice my son I'd tell
him to fuck off.

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.

nullscan
May 28, 2004

TO BE A BOSS YOU MUST HAVE HONOR! HONOR AND A PENIS!

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.

SLOSifl
Aug 10, 2002


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.
How is that any better than a phone app or website that instantly updates with all transactions, performed at a bank or not? I expected better from you, Korea.

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".

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1000 Brown M and Ms
Oct 22, 2008

F:\DL>quickfli 4-clowns.fli
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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