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I've got the same exact situation with the 2005 Pontiac G6, including the information display being integrated with the stereo.
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At that point you might as well just buy a decent bluetooth speaker and use that instead. Get one with a usb charge cable and you can plug it into your lighter as well.
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Nov 28, 2015 07:38
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Small fm transmitters are awful but wired fm modulators are actually quite good and a reasonable way to add an aux-in. They sit inline with the antenna input for the radio and disconnect the external fm antenna when active so you never have interference. Not as easy as with head units which have inputs for trunk mounted cd changers but still easy to diy install and only a $30-$50 fix depending on how fancy of one you get. Shifty Pony has a new favorite as of 07:47 on Nov 28, 2015 |
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Nov 28, 2015 07:40
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I finally got fed up with my 2002 Ford Ranger having the same issue, and bought a new head unit with a USB port from Crutchfield. Made my hour-each-way commute much less lovely. It wasn't that hard to install either.
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Nov 28, 2015 08:40
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The Quaser, a 1960s car made out of glass. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29u543fIX5g
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Nov 28, 2015 10:00
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doodlebugs posted:The Quaser, a 1960s car made out of glass. I thought it was going to be this sort of Quasar... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U72XK0giMzU
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Nov 28, 2015 11:11
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Or this version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBhUcgugkVU
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Nov 28, 2015 11:16
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doodlebugs posted:The Quaser, a 1960s car made out of glass. 
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doodlebugs posted:The Quaser, a 1960s car made out of glass. I had to keep reminding myself that wasn't a parody video.
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Nov 28, 2015 14:39
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taiyoko posted:I wish my car had a cassette player. It's a 2004 Chevy Malibu, and it has a (broken) CD player, and no aux-in. I'm stuck with an FM adapter that sounds shittier than a cassette adapter because at least with the cassette adapter, I didn't have to worry about interference or finding an empty radio channel. And since the radio also has the information display, replacing it with a modern head unit would run me about $300. Since my wife and I both got cars in 2005-2006, we managed to just miss getting aux ports as standard. That sucked for the next 5 years. However, I did find that off brand foreign fm transmitters from places like DealExtreme seemed stronger than name brand ones. Maybe the name brand stuff was paranoid about violating some FCC rule.
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Nov 28, 2015 16:45
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RandomPauI posted:I had to keep reminding myself that wasn't a parody video. Six dudes, sitting on pool toys, driving around in a hothouse, pissing off other drivers who can't find a parking space. Perfect!
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Nov 28, 2015 16:46
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Humphreys posted:I was doing some debugging of some software and associated hardware today and remembered that the term 'bug' and 'debug' was rooted to the actual finding of bugs (the animal) inside circuits causing shorts. If you have ever worked on air conditioning units in the tropics you will understand it, except instead of bugs it's always a drat Gecko. Hah, I worked for a time in Florida installing gear in cellular stations. Each building had a stack of big-assed power supplies converting the mains power into 24v fuckton of amps for the equipment. And without fail below every power supply I personally saw was piles of dead wildlife. Frogs, bugs, lizards, they'd all climb into the power supplies probably for warmth and bridge a couple bus bars and get zorched. Then they'd fall out onto the floor and sit there presumably until someone swept it up.
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Nov 28, 2015 16:56
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I work at an e-waste recycler. Until recently, I was the eBay guy; I still get my pick of cool stuff for cheap. I've avoided posting Cool poo poo here because I wasn't caught up with this thread. Here's some Cool poo poo. I found it in the circuit boards bin, along with a number of other similar discrete logic boards from the Lockheed Missile Systems Division. I know what they are, but have no clue what they're from. I've written to the research department at the Computer History Museum, so I may find out soonish!
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atomicthumbs posted:I found it in the circuit boards bin, along with a number of other similar discrete logic boards from the Lockheed Missile Systems Division. I know what they are, but have no clue what they're from. I... don't know if this is the kind of thing you should be posting in a public forum about.
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Nov 29, 2015 01:25
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I found one of my favorite childhood videos on YouTube recently, and it's a great example of obsolete tech. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbG34c1qorQ Old CG is the best. Apparently they made a few sequels but this is still the best one.
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Nov 29, 2015 01:28
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Around 1993 I worked at an educational retail store and we carried all of those late 1980s/early 1990s CG compilations. I loved those things since I'd been interested in computer graphics from back when that meant ASCII pictures printed on a teletype. We had several big screens to run videos on but we almost always wound up playing one of those frickin' Disney movies instead. Working an eight hour shift with Aladdin or Beauty and the Beast playing on repeat was mind numbing.
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Mr. Flunchy posted:I... don't know if this is the kind of thing you should be posting in a public forum about. That looks like diode logic so I'd guess it's from the 60s at the latest (nuke tech is always lagging behind the cutting edge while they test and verify the new stuff). Not really a proliferation risk, especially considering what it implements. It's just an AND gate, you'd presumably stick a bunch of those into a backplane to set up some sort of logic circuit. It could have gone into anything but I'd bet against an actual missile, since cards like that take up a lot of space and could easily shake loose in a launch.
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Pham Nuwen posted:That looks like diode logic so I'd guess it's from the 60s at the latest (nuke tech is always lagging behind the cutting edge while they test and verify the new stuff). Not really a proliferation risk, especially considering what it implements. All the boards have transistors on them. At one point, these things were loving Expensive.
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Tubesock Holocaust posted:The last car made in the U.S. to have a factory-installed cassette player? This one. Of all cars I would expect to have a modern audio installation, a Lexus would certainly be one of them. Why 
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Laserjet 4P posted:Of all cars I would expect to have a modern audio installation, a Lexus would certainly be one of them. Why Old people love their Lexuses and also love their cassettes.
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Dewgy posted:I found one of my favorite childhood videos on YouTube recently, and it's a great example of obsolete tech. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAD6Obi7Cag
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Laserjet 4P posted:Of all cars I would expect to have a modern audio installation, a Lexus would certainly be one of them. Why It's also not correct, the town car and grand marquis were in production with a tape deck until 2011.
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blugu64 posted:It's also not correct, the town car and grand marquis were in production with a tape deck until 2011. I think it's last model year 'revision' vs 'last new shipment date' they are probably both right depending on what you mean because the Town Car and Grand Marquis were a 2003 revision but shipped until 2011 with minor changes. There were apparently also two SCs shipped to the US in 2012 so who knows.
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atomicthumbs posted:All the boards have transistors on them. At one point, these things were loving Expensive. Are the transistors on the other side? I know you can implement logic gates using only diodes so given the visible components I made an assumption.
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Pham Nuwen posted:Are the transistors on the other side? I'm pretty sure that the three little round silver things are the transistors. Unless they are on the other side of the silver pads, but they look like some kind of current balancing circuit.
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Plinkey posted:I'm pretty sure that the three little round silver things are the transistors. Unless they are on the other side of the silver pads, but they look like some kind of current balancing circuit. They are the keys to a Blackbird 
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peter gabriel posted:They are the keys to a Blackbird I'm pretty sure the blackbird just has a sensor in the seat to make sure that your balls are sufficiently big enough before you can start it up.
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Nov 29, 2015 19:21
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The Blackbird has two toggle switches. They are labeled "Are you ready to rock?" (flip to "Yeah") and "I SAID, ARE YOU READY TO ROCK??" (Flip to "HELL YEAH")
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atomicthumbs posted:I work at an e-waste recycler. Until recently, I was the eBay guy; I still get my pick of cool stuff for cheap. I've avoided posting Cool poo poo here because I wasn't caught up with this thread. Here's some Cool poo poo. My dad, who worked on radars and other related tech in the 60s claims it looks like an AND gate and edge connector, "just like it says". He remembers making ferrite core memory as well fwiw.
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atomicthumbs posted:I work at an e-waste recycler. Until recently, I was the eBay guy; I still get my pick of cool stuff for cheap. I've avoided posting Cool poo poo here because I wasn't caught up with this thread. Here's some Cool poo poo.
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FIL has old computer mags collecting dust on a shelf, and some of them have better-not-make-a-typo code included in the back for the readers:   BUNNY BUNNY BUNNY  Love the accompanying drawings:  
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Nov 29, 2015 21:51
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Trabant posted:Love the accompanying drawings: Yes! This is "Basic Computer Games", right? Post the one for Russian Roulette.
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Nov 29, 2015 22:48
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I recognize those drawings. I might have had (or borrowed) that book when I was a kid and writing BASIC programs from magazines into my SVI-328.
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http://www.calormen.com/jsbasic/ 10 PRINT "Keiya is the best! "; 20 GOTO 10 (Speaking of obsolete and failed: required line numbers!) Keiya has a new favorite as of 23:24 on Nov 29, 2015 |
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Nov 29, 2015 23:20
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Keiya posted:http://www.calormen.com/jsbasic/ How do you do POKE53281,INT(RND(0)*254+1):POKE53280:INT(RND(0)*254+1) in that?
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Nov 29, 2015 23:31
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The easy way? Use a c64 emulator instead :P
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Nov 29, 2015 23:48
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Keiya posted:The easy way? Use a c64 emulator instead :P I don't see how that would allow me to induce seizures on an Apple?
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Nov 29, 2015 23:56
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It wouldn't, but if memory serves, messing with colors on the Apple is a right pain in the rear end.
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Dick Trauma posted:I thought it was going to be this sort of Quasar... my personal favorite quasar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEDlPruj3oQ
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So I was on vacation to NYC for a week and just got back and offloaded my pictures onto my computer. My hotel isn't even half a block away from the Hell's Kitchen Flea Market, and my brother and I made a few visits and got some neat stuff. Here's one interesting item I got a picture of (though I didn't buy it): I was also incredibly lucky and scored a ticket to tour the heretofore abandoned hospital of Ellis Island; the island was abandoned completely in 1954, but the hospital didn't get reopened and turned into a museum with the registration hall starting in the 70s. For the past 60 years it's been almost totally untouched apart from a few rare visits, and only starting last year was an attempt made to start renovating it. So far, that's been entirely limited to stringing up a few lights and trimming the foliage so you can actually walk the paths. Anyways, one of the rooms we visited was the fluoroscopy room. Everything was abandoned except a few sinks...and the fluoroscope regulator. 
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