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Buttcoin purse posted:Can you still connect them together? At least in cases where I've had a newer (4 pin) plug from a new case and an older 3 pin socket on the motherboard, the plug has grooves so that it lines up with the 3 pins. quote:Is this USB 2 vs. USB 3 or some variants of USB 2?? There's also a blue connector that maybe leads to a port that was papered over with the HP poo poo but I don't need it and I don't care to take it all apart to find out it's a USB 1. Those usb speeds on the front are gonna suck so I may eventually just replace them... quote:
I was kind of puzzled over why I never used the ports and forgot the thing had them until I realized that anything that would have been using USB at the time would have been way too expensive for me to actually own. Hell, they sold me a bundle printer that still used the parallel port and it was the Year Two-Thousand. Sucks about the printer. I had one where ink had calcified in the supply link and it was just easier to chuck it. I also realized my commercial purchasing habits were iffy. First computer was a Performa CD from The Good Guys. Next was an HP Sunday Special from Circuit City. If I ever buy a desktop from Best Buy, short them because they'll drop off the face of the earth a few years.
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Dell has 5 pin fan connectors. That no one else uses. Because gently caress you, that's why!
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# ? Jun 22, 2019 14:38 |
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This is true, and not far from what I said when I found out while trying to fix a work computer with spares from a non-dell.
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# ? Jun 22, 2019 16:32 |
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Here's something I'd never seen before. A laptop with a translucent screen, so it can be placed on an overhead projector. It comes with a little stand for when it's on the projector. A reminder of the days when an LCD projector cost more than a car.
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# ? Jun 22, 2019 22:14 |
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That reminds me of the TI Viewscreen for showing the screen from a calculator on an overhead projector.
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# ? Jun 22, 2019 23:18 |
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mystes posted:That reminds me of the TI Viewscreen for showing the screen from a calculator on an overhead projector. That has Techmoan written all over it.
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# ? Jun 22, 2019 23:41 |
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Goddamn, how hot did either one of those get? A normal slide projector usually would have some pretty drat strong bulbs for normal use. I imagine those would have to be scaled up a decent chunk further to illuminate through a screen like that. (I imagine the answer is that the lights weren't that strong, and that the image sucked and was low contrast and low power. )
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SubNat posted:Goddamn, how hot did either one of those get? It's just an overhead projector, it worked fine, we had them in school
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 03:01 |
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mystes posted:That reminds me of the TI Viewscreen for showing the screen from a calculator on an overhead projector. I saw one of these in a calculus class at a funky dink community college
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 03:16 |
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Aren't overhead projectors themselves pretty much obsolete in schools now? IIRC they installed Smart Boards in all the schools in my district a few years after I graduated high school.
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 03:31 |
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My mom had one of those projector laptops when I was a teen (she's a HS teacher) and I remember it being pretty crap late 90s early 00s LCD and REALLY streaky but actually pretty readable on the projector. And projectors sometimes had fans in them to help exhaust heat, and the glass top was usually uncannily insulating, as it had to protect hands and transparencies from melting. This is my anecdotal experience from 2 decades ago. My mom doesn't use an overhead projector anymore, but uses a whiteboard and smartass now.
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 03:49 |
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They used to make standalone LCD panels that worked like that laptop. We had one in my college dorm to watch movies on the wall....it wasn’t great.
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 03:54 |
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Wasabi the J posted:... so how do you help out your mother in the classroom? do you, like, hand out papers?
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 03:56 |
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Sounds like she ought to just hire you!
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 03:57 |
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Lester Shy posted:Aren't overhead projectors themselves pretty much obsolete in schools now?
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 04:03 |
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Horace posted:Here's something I'd never seen before. A laptop with a translucent screen, so it can be placed on an overhead projector. oh poo poo we had these in turn of the century high school, the ti calc ones too always feel an urge to buy one of those old translucent projectors when I see em at Goodwill or wherever, to mod an old LCD panel onto for a cheap novelty projector- but then I remember how fuckin hot those things got from sometimes being fated to sit next to them in elementary school
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 04:30 |
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I saw that TI overhead projector thing in my college in.... 2007ish. An older math teacher swore by it in teaching how to use the calculator.
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 04:40 |
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I built my first video projector using an overhead projector and taking apart a 12" flat panel monitor for the LCD panel.
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 04:47 |
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I built my first video projector using an overhead projector and taking apart a 12" flat panel monitor for the LCD panel. haha I remember reading instructions on how to do this back in the day but never tried
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 05:56 |
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One of my old hippy profs thought Overhead projectors were the devils work and wheeled a chalkboard into the classroom with him. He was such a luddite he wouldn't even use a whiteboard.
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twistedmentat posted:One of my old hippy profs thought Overhead projectors were the devils work and wheeled a chalkboard into the classroom with him. He was such a luddite he wouldn't even use a whiteboard. So you took one maths class.
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 07:10 |
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Platystemon posted:So you took one maths class. It was actually American history, the kind that looks at people who were not presidents or generals.
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 07:49 |
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I remember in my first year of high school, somebody took a transparency and put it on top of the stack of paper in the color laser printer, hoping to print onto it. Of course the transparency melted inside the machine.
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 07:57 |
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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:I remember in my first year of high school, somebody took a transparency and put it on top of the stack of paper in the color laser printer, hoping to print onto it. Of course the transparency melted inside the machine. We had LASER printer compatible transparencies and regular transparencies and then some fucker stacked them all together. They look and feel exactly the loving same, except the former were way more expensive back in the day
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 08:03 |
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Someone put a plastic sleeve paper protector through a laser printer at my school once. I had to explain how fusers work and why the printer was a write-off so many times.
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 08:25 |
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Mister Kingdom posted:That has Techmoan written all over it.
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 17:07 |
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More like Techmum
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 18:07 |
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mystes posted:That reminds me of the TI Viewscreen for showing the screen from a calculator on an overhead projector. why is it rendering a condom?
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 18:55 |
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T-man posted:why is it rendering a condom? Showing that you can use it for sex ed too.
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 20:41 |
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T-man posted:why is it rendering a condom? Owning accessories for your graphing calculator is probably a pretty effective form of birth control all by itself.
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 21:09 |
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T-man posted:why is it rendering a condom? New Stab-hard condoms, with elongated conical tip: a guaranteed cervix poke with every stroke! Edti: Just the way she likes it.
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 22:39 |
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I remember seeing a diy guide to making a VGA projector using an overhead projector and taking apart an old lcd screen back in the early 2000s.
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# ? Jun 24, 2019 02:53 |
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Lowen SoDium posted:I remember seeing a diy guide to making a VGA projector using an overhead projector and taking apart an old lcd screen back in the early 2000s. Humbug Scoolbus posted:I built my first video projector using an overhead projector and taking apart a 12" flat panel monitor for the LCD panel. Back in the day a buddy of mine hacked together a video projector by taking apart one of those TFT monitors, removing the LCD panel and melding it to an overhead projector.
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# ? Jun 24, 2019 05:14 |
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In a parallel universe with slightly different technological progression, white LED overhead projectors would have been a really nice upgrade for some years. I don't know if they even made any, or if overheads were just too dead by the time of the first decent high-power white LEDs?
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# ? Jun 24, 2019 09:41 |
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I had a look, but all the currently available models (there are a few!) still use the same 250w halogen bulbs they used years ago.
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# ? Jun 24, 2019 23:17 |
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Speaking of obsolete classroom equipment, filmstrip machines. No, not 16mm or whatever film projectors, individual frames of film used as slideshows. Which inevitably led to: Alright class, we're going to see a film today. Sweet, easy class today. wait why did they say "film" and not movie? *teacher wheels out this lame rear end thing* (entire class under breath) goddamn it
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# ? Jun 25, 2019 01:18 |
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*BONG* I loved that dumb machine
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# ? Jun 25, 2019 01:26 |
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The fancy classrooms had the automated ones
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# ? Jun 25, 2019 02:16 |
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ryonguy posted:Speaking of obsolete classroom equipment, filmstrip machines. No, not 16mm or whatever film projectors, individual frames of film used as slideshows. The kid running the machine is always one slide behind.
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ryonguy posted:Speaking of obsolete classroom equipment, filmstrip machines. No, not 16mm or whatever film projectors, individual frames of film used as slideshows. We "watched" The Three Musketeers this way in third grade. It had narration over individual slides. Between this, the film projectors, record players, teachers' smoking lounge and reading choices, there are times I feel my elementary school days were closer to my parents' than what kids experienced just five years later.
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