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0toShifty posted:PCMCIA interface PCMCIA stands for: Personal Computer Memory Card International Association or People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms
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Exit Strategy posted:PCMCIA stands for: Reminds me of the TWAIN standard that scanners used to use. Of course TWAIN stands for: Technology Without An Interesting Name.
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Mar 18, 2017 08:55
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Wacky Delly posted:Reminds me of the TWAIN standard that scanners used to use. Of course TWAIN stands for: Technology Without An Interesting Name. It's from a Kipling poem: "Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet"
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Mar 18, 2017 09:19
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Grumbletron 4000 posted:I recently came across this little beauty... Clean that up and load some 120 film in it. You have nothing to lose! It's also a decently sought after camera if it's fully working.
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Mar 18, 2017 09:48
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Johnny Aztec posted:Bout an 80 dollar keyboard, give or take. I have one in a closet somewhere, gonna sell that asap.
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Mar 18, 2017 12:12
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RC and Moon Pie posted:Update: Batman disk is not working with my USB disk drive. In the picture it looked like those disks didn't say "HD" (high density, i.e. 1.44MB), and I'm pretty sure I read online that not only do most USB floppy drives not support non-standard formats (like 2MB Windows 95 install disks, if I recall correctly), but some (maybe many?) don't even support DD (double density, 720KB) disks, which is what you seem to have there. Try putting it in a real floppy drive  Edit: Oh crap, I just remembered that you can also tell from the holes, and the batman disk does have the 2nd hole (i.e. there's the write-protect one and the other one), so yeah it's probably not that at all.
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Mar 18, 2017 12:23
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Vanagoon posted:In the days where flash memory was still ruinously expensive, i'd say it was a pretty good idea. Why not connect a 3.5" hdd? Loads of storage.
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Mar 18, 2017 13:29
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It's MiniDisc time! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU3BceoMuaA
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Mar 18, 2017 14:11
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Frobbe posted:Clean that up and load some 120 film in it. You have nothing to lose! It's also a decently sought after camera if it's fully working. What this guy said. Medium format Yashica's take some great photos, photo nerds will pay decent for a working one.
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Mar 18, 2017 14:41
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Boiled Water posted:Why not connect a 3.5" hdd? Loads of storage. At the time 3.5 hdd were expensive and heavy. While you can easily get a drive for under a $100 today, the major manufacturers were offering drives in the 200-500 dollar range. Also the gigabyte sizes available would have been considered overkill to the average consumer.
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Mar 18, 2017 14:50
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Grumbletron 4000 posted:I recently came across this little beauty... Thats a pretty sweet camera. It will take some great pics. And of course you can get film for it. Analog photography is not dead.
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Mar 18, 2017 15:44
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I remember seeing Mini-Discs, but the price was way out of my range at the time. I did pick up the ELO's Greatest Hits disc as a collector's item.
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Mar 18, 2017 18:29
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I had this iPod: Otherwise known as the fatty iPod. I used it to watch Clone High on a shuttle bus. When Apple had their most recentiPod retrospective they actually failed to mention that one. I kind of liked it although I appear to be the only one. I also have an HP iPod because Apple for some strange reason thought co-marketing with HP was a good way to sell music players. Grumbletron 4000 posted:I recently came across this little beauty... I had that exact camera. It has an neat little red window on the back to show you what exposure you're on. The biggest difference between that and nicer Yashica's was the lack of filter rings. Take it out and shoot some Sunny 16 exposures with Kodak Porta film and just be amazed at the color and details. You will probably need to mail order the film for development.
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Mar 19, 2017 01:41
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evobatman posted:It's MiniDisc time! gently caress SonicStage.
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Mar 19, 2017 02:44
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Krispy Kareem posted:I had this iPod: 3rd gen Nano? 8gig? Geez, so tiny. And that's almost 10 years old now.
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Mar 19, 2017 04:13
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Why was that Coldplay album just everywhere? Every music service advertised it, it was on the screen of every MP3 player and iPod in adverts, it was just....everywhere. By some amazing mystery I have also never, ever heard it though I recognize the cover art instantly.
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Mar 19, 2017 04:24
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Their first two big albums (which had, like, Yellow, Spies, and The Scientist) made people really anticipate their first Big Fully Funded record. Plus Speed of Sound was released way in advance and it was just everywhere and Poppy and bright and poo poo. I imagine their label poured a poo poo load of money into promotion for it.
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Mar 19, 2017 05:26
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Grumbletron 4000 posted:I recently came across this little beauty... On a trip to Japan last year I picked up what is reputedly the largest SLR camera ever produced — the Fujifilm GX680:  This one is the GX680II - it came with the 135mm f5.6 lens, which roughly comparable to a 50mm f/2.4 in 35mm terms (for the purposes of working out FOV and DOF). The front standard of the bellows unit can be moved shifted up and down and tilted in both the horizontal and vertical axes, and it would have probably been a sweet studio camera in its day. It uses 120 [or 220] film, and makes 6x8 negatives (which are actually 56mm × 77mm). It's all electronic, and its lenses are unusual in that they are rectangular blocks that clip in to the front bellows unit like lego. It's spectacularly heavy, so using it handheld is... challenging. I also discovered that the film holder has an integrated (ie. soldered to the circuit board) lithium battery that is necessary for it to remember how many exposures have been shot. I've replaced it myself, but given the nice industrial design of the rest of the camera it seems like a loving stupid design oversight.
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Mar 19, 2017 11:12
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Why was that Coldplay album just everywhere? Every music service advertised it, it was on the screen of every MP3 player and iPod in adverts, it was just....everywhere. By some amazing mystery I have also never, ever heard it though I recognize the cover art instantly. It was either that or Beatles.
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Mar 19, 2017 11:12
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spongepuppy posted:The front standard of the bellows unit can be moved shifted up and down and tilted in both the horizontal and vertical axes Sorry, I don't know much about cameras, does that let you do Tilt–shift photography? (I'm surprised I even remembered the name, what came to mind first was "that trick that makes it look like you took a photo of a miniature model of something when you really took a photo of the real thing) Anyway that sure is a big camera. I'd like to think some old person has gotten tired of how few photos their digital camera can store, gone into a camera store and said "give me your biggest camera" and been presented with that.
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Mar 19, 2017 11:59
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Buttcoin purse posted:Sorry, I don't know much about cameras, does that let you do Tilt–shift photography? Yes - "tilting" the lens tilts the plane of focus, making it possible to take landscape photos where the very near foreground and distant background are all in focus. It's also good for product and macro photography where the foreground and background are on the same object. The "faux-miniature" effect is basically the same, only it involves tilting the plane of focus the other way - so instead of conforming to the subject it instead "cuts" through the subject at a more severe angle. That simulates the effect of a macro lens, depth of field is proportionate to magnification at the imaging plane. Buttcoin purse posted:I'd like to think some old person has gotten tired of how few photos their digital camera can store... I have some bad news for them - because you get 9 shots per roll of 120 film at 6x8! Dia de Pikachutos has a new favorite as of 12:38 on Mar 19, 2017 |
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Mar 19, 2017 12:27
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I picked this lot up just a few minutes ago today: Got it for free on our local Craigslist equivalent. That's a pretty decent score.
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Mar 19, 2017 16:22
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I really like the look of minidiscs. They remind me of floppies but more futurey.
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Mar 19, 2017 19:20
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evobatman posted:I picked this lot up just a few minutes ago today: speaking of just that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU3BceoMuaA I had no idea minidiscs were popular... anywhere, but Tech Egg sure thinks they were in peridious Albion.
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Mar 19, 2017 19:31
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Even though it's posted twice in as many.pages, I love me some Techmoan.
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Mar 19, 2017 19:35
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I suspect it's all down to cars. There's just not as much demand for pocketable music devices in the US because we drive everywhere, so the slightly-bigger size of CDs didn't matter.
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Mar 19, 2017 19:45
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evobatman posted:I picked this lot up just a few minutes ago today: For as much as people poo poo on minidisc, it was a pretty awesome format in between the awkward periods of flash-based MP3 players with their 16MB compactflash cards and the iPod. I loved mine.
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Mar 19, 2017 19:54
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Keiya posted:I really like the look of minidiscs. They remind me of floppies but more futurey. Yeah, they're what was used in 90s sci fi movies to indicate "future" technology.
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Mar 19, 2017 20:08
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I find myself kinda wishing they'd caught on for pre-recorded music, because every CD I owned eventually got wrecked because someone used it as a coaster.
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I kinda want to pick one up just because I like playing with recording music and it's also nice to have something on that bus that won't eat my phone battery or be a theft magnet.
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Mar 19, 2017 20:34
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Keiya posted:I suspect it's all down to cars. There's just not as much demand for pocketable music devices in the US because we drive everywhere, so the slightly-bigger size of CDs didn't matter. When I was visiting Japan in the early 2000's, everyone had Minidisc players in their cars.
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porktree posted:Thats a pretty sweet camera. It will take some great pics. And of course you can get film for it. Analog photography is not dead. Awesome. Can't wait to clean it up, get some film and try it out. I've actually seen a bunch of photos taken with it. It belonged to my girlfriend's mom. I was helping her clean up a bunch of junk at her house and came across that Yashica and an 80's era Ricoh SLR. She was going to trash them but gave them to me for helping out. She said they both worked great last time they were used.
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Powerlurker posted:When I was visiting Japan in the early 2000's, everyone had Minidisc players in their cars. I visited around the same time. Some people had minidisc changers in their cars. Usually in the trunk, just like CD changers were common here in the US. I had a friend stateside who had a single disc player in his car. But he was a massive minidisc dork. When I work at Bestbuy in 2000-2001, I would often recommend people Minidisc players over MP3 players because of the cost and capacity compared to MP3 players of the time. The only real downside was that you had to record music to them in real time instead of copying files to them. If Sony had allowed that sooner, MD might have lasted longer than it did.
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Mar 20, 2017 02:21
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Lowen SoDium posted:I visited around the same time. Some people had minidisc changers in their cars. Usually in the trunk, just like CD changers were common here in the US. Sony did eventually make a data Minidisc that held and played files rather than recording in real time. I wanna say that they held close to as much music as an MP3 CD too. However, you had to use Sonys gently caress awful software to convert and burn your music. Probably a big reason it never caught on. I had that exact MD recorder posted on this page. That thing was a tank. Most of it is made of actual metal.
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Sonicstage, my parents bought me that type of minidisc recorder for Christmas the year I did a complete switch to macs. Never got it to work properly.
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Grumbletron 4000 posted:Sony did eventually make a data Minidisc that held and played files rather than recording in real time. I wanna say that they held close to as much music as an MP3 CD too. However, you had to use Sonys gently caress awful software to convert and burn your music. Probably a big reason it never caught on. Yeah, thats what I meant by "sooner". Their later MD players would let you copy music, but they converted it to their proprietary ATRAC format. Better compression than MP3 but you had to convert using their software. By the time they allowed that, there were already better flash based MP3 players that you could drag and drop music on to and no one cared about MD anymore.
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Mar 20, 2017 02:58
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Grumbletron 4000 posted:Sony did eventually make a data Minidisc that held and played files rather than recording in real time. I wanna say that they held close to as much music as an MP3 CD too. However, you had to use Sonys gently caress awful software to convert and burn your music. Probably a big reason it never caught on. I believe that it was actually closer to halving the bitrate of your mp3s then saying you can burn them to cds in half the time or fit twice as many per disc. The music was still stored on the minidisc in the standard audio format but the storage boost and faster writing was due to compressing the hell out of the music. My ex had one and in addition to the software being trash anything recorded at the higher compression ratios sounded completely awful.
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Well they also did make higher capacity ones that had data ability in 2000ish. Regular minidisc could be recorded at garbage bitrate to cram more tracks into a regular 80 minute disk with the later models too.
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Lowen SoDium posted:Yeah, thats what I meant by "sooner". Their later MD players would let you copy music, but they converted it to their proprietary ATRAC format. Better compression than MP3 but you had to convert using their software. By the time they allowed that, there were already better flash based MP3 players that you could drag and drop music on to and no one cared about MD anymore. Yep, ATRAC and Sonic stage was it. About the same time I had that MD recorder I also had a Sony Discman with MP3 ability. It also came with an install disc for that Sonic stage garbage. I attempted to use it just to see if it was worthwhile. It was not. Pretty sure it just crashed my computer the moment I tried to run it. That Discman worked really well though. I phased out the MD and used that until I got a 3rd gen 15gb iPod. Going from a CD book full of discs and a big honkin' CD player to that iPod was a revelation.
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A friend has a 1994 Jetta that had a previous life as an audio competition car. It had wacky 90s high end stereo equipment, crossovers, eq, many amps, and the best part? Yes, it had a Minidisc changer in the trunk. Speaking of 1994, here's something obsolete and failed. You have a calendar, agenda, world clock, phonebook, calculator, unit conversion, memo, fortune telling, matchmaker AND you could send text messages to other SECRET SENDER 6000s by infrared! You could also use that sensor as a universal remote for your TV and VCR. This one was certainly a toy directed at girls, but you can just see some dumb future technology archaeologist saying FORERUNNER OF SMARTPHONE! Casio ruled back then. 
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