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mng posted:I'm sure it's been gone over before, but I thought of test patterns: Tater Tot 13 posted:I retired a 40" version of this beast last year. I weighed about 350-400lbs. Tater Tot 13 posted:It didn't have a spaceman so it had no point. GWBBQ has a new favorite as of 03:37 on Aug 18, 2015 |
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Here's some more. Genuine radio from Pre-WW2 Germany. The plastic looks very 80's. Same era, basic radio receiver for the masses: Another radio, intricate design: Spank bank material for steampunks: This is identified as a radio telephone: Another sort-of-predecessor to the cell phone: The earlier-mentioned adjustable capacitors in action: Some of those cylinders seen on barrel pianos: Wireless home phone ca 1988: I miss the days when you could still direct-dial everyone on the network! LOL Big Screen A graph tracer: Another nice TV, but a bit unlevel: Steampunk gravity gun or old CRT? More odd TV's: Serious 60's vibe: I am not sure what it really is, but it sure looks like a horrible mechanical Furby face. Front-panel access to those tubes you need to replace now and then: Straight off the Star Trek: TOS bridge: Some weird German assembly code: Did you like the ferrite memory module earlier? Have 3D ferrite memory! That's some cabling... Old Zuse terminal: Old proprietary Siemens disk storage: Classic: Awesome console: Women in CAD (advertising) in the 60's? Another awesome console: Neat plotter: Early Numpad: It goes with this: If I remember correctly, this is the output stage: I still have a bunch more from the rail, marine, and military air section. If I find something obsolete, I'll post it up.
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GWBBQ posted:Tone is usually 1khz I have a photography friend who is still on the lookout for a used/refurbed 24" flat surface widescreen Trinitron monitor (I can't remember the model number off the top of my head). Those things had (I think) 2300x1440 resolution and according to him once color calibrated looked fantastic. They weighed over a 100 lbs.
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TotalLossBrain posted:Genuine radio from Pre-WW2 Germany. The plastic looks very 80's. IN KÄSE OF ÄLLIED BOMBUNG, TÄKE KOVER INSIDE UNSER MINIATURE FLAKTURM/RADIOANLAGE
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(I never thought I'd see a brutalist radio.)
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TotalLossBrain posted:Here's some more. What style is this? It's beautiful.
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SlightButSteady posted:What style is this? It's beautiful. Futurist? e: I wanted to say Googie but a) that's architecture and b) I don't know what I'm talking about anyway I just wanted to make a guess and if I turned out to be right I'd seem right smart. eeeeee: Art deco eeeeeee: I still have no idea what I'm talking about the size of the TV means it's not period art deco anyway Jesus take me now. 3D Megadoodoo has a new favorite as of 07:26 on Aug 18, 2015 |
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Jerry Cotton posted:Futurist? Excellent, thank you. It's called the Kuba Komet
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Ooh there's more kit inside it
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Jerry Cotton posted:eeeeee: Art deco
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The fun thing about that Komet is that TVs had began to move into the portable era (well luggable) by that time. That thing really was the equivilant of buying a B&O home entertainment unit in in the 60's as it had 8 speakers all hooked up to different appliances. The Philco Tandem Predicta (also 21") The novelty is that the screen is connected with a long cord for extra mobility.
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German TV chat reminded me that this is the set my family had when I was a kid (not my pictures): That's the only image I could find on google images that included the stand. Thing oughta be an exhibit in a design museum as far as I'm concerned. The remote was beautiful too:
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SlightButSteady posted:Excellent, thank you. It's called the Kuba Komet That is so cool I really dig this style of TV, where the tube/glass sits in a tilting frame like this.
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sinking belle posted:German TV chat reminded me that this is the set my family had when I was a kid (not my pictures): When I lived with my parents I used to watch TV in my bedroom on my Amiga monitor hooked up to a VCR. I was seriously looking at buying myself a good TV and it would have been a Loewe or Grundig. Thankfully I realised I didn't really watch much TV and saved both my wallet and my back.
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Has anyone mentioned Scopitone in this thread? They were basically jukeboxes that played 16mm music videos. A local cult movie host has a tone of Scopitone clips and shows them before movies. It's mostly fun 60s go-go stuff. http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/scopitone-60s-music-videos-youve-never-seen/ http://www.scopitonearchive.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a02SqdXuq0 http://scopitones.blogs.com/
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TotalLossBrain posted:Here's some more. That's actually tape storage. The CPI stands for "Characters Per Inch", a measure of tape storage data density. Characters == roughly bytes, IIRC.
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thetechnoloser posted:It's tape!
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Tater Tot 13 posted:I retired a 40" version of this beast last year. I weighed about 350-400lbs. Dieting is not obsolete, motherfucker!
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TotalLossBrain posted:I am not sure what it really is, but it sure looks like a horrible mechanical Furby face. The modern ones look almost exactly the same, until digital TV took over.
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Count Chocula posted:Has anyone mentioned Scopitone in this thread? They were basically jukeboxes that played 16mm music videos. A local cult movie host has a tone of Scopitone clips and shows them before movies. It's mostly fun 60s go-go stuff. Classic Scopitone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbyAZQ45uww
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LethalGeek posted:It sucks it never took off but I love my cable box PC. Makes everything about SMART TVs look as dumb as they actually are. Same here, I have an InfiniTV 4 PCIe in my PC, which is good if you're somewhere where space is at a premium. CableCARD's problem was that, among other things, the cable companies only supported it because they were legally obligated to, and it showed. Plus it didn't help that until Windows 7, you couldn't buy a tuner as a standalone device, it had to come pre-installed with the PC. And by the time the restrictions were changed and you could buy a tuner by itself, streaming services were already starting to take off. Of course it tended to be pretty finicky and a pain to set up, but it was nice once everything was set up and working.
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Jedit posted:Dieting is not obsolete, motherfucker! Holy crap! IT I meant IT weighed 350-400lbs
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I finally have something to contribute to this thread. I got this laptop in a load of various items, and I just love it. The weight, the design, the build, it's just wonderful Introducing: The METROBOOK II ! It is a Pentium 1 MMX era laptop with a whopping 2 GB HDD and an amazing 130 MB of RAM! The HDD comes in a little caddy that is inserted into a slot on the side that has a flip down door. The metal bar at the bottom is what you use to pull it out. The back of it: Holding it upside actually, but on the "top" by the ports is a flap that latches close and hides the ports when not in use. There is PS/2/ Parallel/ Game Port/VGA I'm not sure what the next one is. It has a little image of a TV by it, so built in TV-Tuner? I'm not sure. Port Replicator and Serial. Oh, on that flap that hides the ports, is a smaller sliding door that gives access to just the port replicator. Here was something that I just liked for the build. If you wanted to get at the CPU, you don't have to tear the whole thing apart. Flip it over, take out 4 screws, remove a cover, take out 4 more screws for the Heat sink and: THERE YOU ARE! That sticker above the CPU seems to imply you can change the voltage to it, and perhaps O?C it a bit, but I couldn't figure it out, and I didn't want to start tearing it open. Amazingly, the battery can still hold a 2 hour-ish charge. I don't know exatcly because I forgot about it, and this was sitting at the BIOS screen, not in actual use. Has no USB ports, but a FDD. The Keyboard is nice, as well. I don't know, I've always had a thing for that early era of laptops. I hate for it to just rot, but I can't come up with any real ideas on what to use it for.
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I think the old Toshiba Satellite I had back in school around 96 or 97 is still at my parents place somewhere. P100/16MB RAM/500 MB HDD/6x CD ROM/trackpoint (no trackpad) and best of all an internal power supply (no lugging an extra brick around back then). I remember the 800x600 DSTN screen was a bit dire though - it couldn't cope with any movement without a huge amount of ghosting (I was jealous of the 'active matrix' screens on the more expensive models) Not my pic
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dissss posted:I think the old Toshiba Satellite I had back in school around 96 or 97 is still at my parents place somewhere. Yeah, those passive-matrix LCD's were goddamn horrible. I actually prefer monochrome displays over those blurry, washed-out miserable things.
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dissss posted:
I love the look of older "fat" laptops like this. Look at that keyboard too! Johnny Aztec posted:The back of it: By the looks of it, composite video. Lots and lots of laptops had that, I recall.
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Code Jockey posted:I love the look of older "fat" laptops like this. Look at that keyboard too! Oh, Neat! I've never seen it on a laptop before. Oh, I didn't mention, this laptop has little legs that can swing down at the back, to give it an angle.
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I have a Powerbook 270c DUO and DuoDock that I should probably post. It really is a neat little laptop.
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dissss posted:I remember the 800x600 DSTN screen was a bit dire though - it couldn't cope with any movement without a huge amount of ghosting (I was jealous of the 'active matrix' screens on the more expensive models) I had a very similar toshiba and it was my second favorite laptop ever in terms of form factor/construction. Fav. being my 12" Powerbook G4. When will another laptop meet my gray, square needs?
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moller posted:Fav. being my 12" Powerbook G4. Goddamn that was a great laptop. Mine was the top of the line, last revision for that model. Begrudgingly sold it after a good 7-8 years. One of the first with a multi-touch trackpad, poo poo was like witchcraft.
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dissss posted:I think the old Toshiba Satellite I had back in school around 96 or 97 is still at my parents place somewhere. God drat. I had that exact model for my first networking gig. When you purchased a license for Sniffer Pro, it included a PCMCIA 10Mbps adapter and this thing. It ran on DOS and loaded all these funky sys files to work. And if I recall correctly, the license was embedded in the PCMCIA card. Jesus, that was when i cut my teeth on packet capture. Brings back memories.
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TotalLossBrain posted:Another sort-of-predecessor to the cell phone: It's a 1960s handheld 2 meter ham radio. Had a grand output of .07 watts from what I can find, which is about twice as powerful as the handie talky used by the US military in WW2, and weighs slightly less. Looks like it's set up so that the 2 meter band is divided up into two sections, and then a tuning knob to set your frequency inside those. Also note that it needs to be manually switched between send and receive.
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C.M. Kruger posted:It's a 1960s handheld 2 meter ham radio. Had a grand output of .07 watts from what I can find, which is about twice as powerful as the handie talky used by the US military in WW2, and weighs slightly less. Looks like it's set up so that the 2 meter band is divided up into two sections, and then a tuning knob to set your frequency inside those. Also note that it needs to be manually switched between send and receive. I used to have a 2 metre back about 20 years ago. It was awesome, not only did the local police NOT have encrypted tac channels, but sometimes some people would do DTMF tones over their everyday communications. Also, $5 a month got me outdial access to a phone connected repeater. Suck it, cell phone people!
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Zaphod42 posted:When I was a teenager the cool thing to do (well, not so much) was cruise around wardriving with laptops. Thanks to horrible data limits and expensive Internet, I've recently had to 'warwalk' around with my phone. Or hope the library left the WiFi on at night. Otherwise I couldn't get Facebook messages or anything.
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moller posted:I had a very similar toshiba and it was my second favorite laptop ever in terms of form factor/construction. Doesn't have SA loaded, don't recognize webpage.
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TotalLossBrain posted:Computer memory old school! Ferrite memory: Isn't ferrite memory so drat stable, that these might well have the same data stored in them?
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It's only obsolete because they don't make drivers for it any more but I loved my Ergodex DX-1. I still have it and would use it if I could! All those keys can be repositioned however you want, as many times as you want, and you can assign whatever macros you want to any key. Awesome for gaming and for video editing.
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Squish posted:Isn't ferrite memory so drat stable, that these might well have the same data stored in them? Yes.
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Squish posted:Isn't ferrite memory so drat stable, that these might well have the same data stored in them? One interesting thing to note--the core memory pictured is actually fairly low density. Before it became obsolete, the cores became crazy small and the memory planes became huge.
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TotalLossBrain posted:Awesome German radio from the 80's:
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