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Sweevo posted:You drat kids with your CADs and your CAMs and those accursed computer things. Behold the Mergenthaler Diagrammer: The Merganthaler >>IN COLOR!<<
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Wasabi the J posted:The video refutes this assertion. If Spacewar!’s developers were inspired by Strachey’s Draughts or the others, I missed it.
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Platystemon posted:If Spacewar!’s developers were inspired by Strachey’s Draughts or the others, I missed it. He argued they don't really have a single origin. There are firsts for each category.
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FilthyImp posted:Did that ever come out? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj7GYU-wedo It's apparently pretty bad.
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ishikabibble posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj7GYU-wedo A few of us really wanted one and almost did through my old work as an expense with our editing machines. The boss pointed out we have dedicated AVID keyboards with all the colour coded keycaps already and we should be good enough editors to not have to 'hunt and poke' our commands.
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Oct 12, 2019 10:59
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Humphreys posted:A few of us really wanted one and almost did through my old work as an expense with our editing machines. The boss pointed out we have dedicated AVID keyboards with all the colour coded keycaps already and we should be good enough editors to not have to 'hunt and poke' our commands. Thought the same thing, while it's neat, who the hell is looking at their keyboard ever, so it would be entirely wasted. Having a few side keys like stream deck style with special commands maybe. Also it was 1000 bucks, and I'm sure those little screens would get screwed up pretty quickly. I got a "stinky" foot board (the name trolls you I know) thinking hands free hot keys would be super useful...too bad the software never got updated after launch and it's essentially broken forever, it's built super well and has different strength springs you can change out, goes 4 directions   So much potential wasted. LifeSunDeath has a new favorite as of 14:19 on Oct 12, 2019 |
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LifeSunDeath posted:Thought the same thing, while it's neat, who the hell is looking at their keyboard ever, so it would be entirely wasted. Having a few side keys like stream deck style with special commands maybe. Also it was 1000 bucks, and I'm sure those little screens would get screwed up pretty quickly. LOL I found some USB footpedals you could bind to key combos. Back when I (thought) I was MLG Counterstrike 360 no scoping I explained I don't have time to reach for another key with my hands to speak! Now I have an aging G930 headset with bindable buttons so I can mic up on chats while taking a dump.
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Oct 13, 2019 11:40
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ishikabibble posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj7GYU-wedo Whoa, I remember arguing about those on /. back in the day and then never hearing about them ever again, so it's funny to see they actually delivered more or less what was intended but it just sucks for typing because of lovely switches lol. You could probably make a better/cheaper one nowadays but having to actually use a hundred individual displays is always going to be a bitch and not really worth it.
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Oct 13, 2019 16:17
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This is pretty neat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezME4_xMMnk
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Oct 13, 2019 16:38
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Humphreys posted:LOL I found some USB footpedals you could bind to key combos. Back when I (thought) I was MLG Counterstrike 360 no scoping I explained I don't have time to reach for another key with my hands to speak! People doing speech-to-text transcriptions more or less need these those types of pedals to free their hands for typing as fast as possible.
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mobby_6kl posted:Whoa, I remember arguing about those on /. back in the day and then never hearing about them ever again, so it's funny to see they actually delivered more or less what was intended but it just sucks for typing because of lovely switches lol. You could probably make a better/cheaper one nowadays but having to actually use a hundred individual displays is always going to be a bitch and not really worth it. Yeah the whole internet was talking about it in 2005. And back then the price they threw out was $200-$300. I just assumed it was vaporware. It's pretty funny that it came out years later at $1600 and/or $3000.
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Wasn't the cheaper model just a 10-key? I remember them demonstrating one that was application-aware in Windows.
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2005 was a weird year for tech. There was this thing, which was about 5 inches long and had a gigahertz cpu with about 2 hours of battery life.  Like we knew everyone would eventually have a pocket computer, but people still thought we’d be walking around with Windows XP. That UI must have sucked at 800x600 and that was probably a resistive display so good luck using a finger over the stylus.
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Everyone on Stargate Universe seems to have one. The concept of the thing is pretty cool.
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Krispy Wafer posted:2005 was a weird year for tech. There was this thing, which was about 5 inches long and had a gigahertz cpu with about 2 hours of battery life. I posted earlier (in either this thread or the Tech Relic thread) about testing the Sony equivalent of that thing for work.  You can see that the form factor is very similar though uglier. The performance was surprisingly good for something that small... which is to say not very good at all. The whole handheld/palmtop computer thing was completely replaced by mini notebooks, netbooks, and ultrabooks less than a year later, and then again by smartphones and tablets a few years after that.
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I had one of those WinCE phones and yes, they had no idea how to adapt Windows-style UI/UX for something that size.
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My dad had one of those Journada things for work in the late 90s. It was like a tiny laptop. I remember he would bring it out whenever we went somewhere and had to wait and he did something on it. I don't know what was cooler, that tiny laptop or the palm pilot he would also sometimes have where you could memorize the weird symbols they replaced the letters with to "write" things instead of typing them.
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FilthyImp posted:I had one of those WinCE phones and yes, they had no idea how to adapt Windows-style UI/UX for something that size. The one I posted was actually full Windows XP, which is why they ran so bad with such bad battery life (not that WinCE was a pleasure to use). They had Intel Core Solo CPUs running at somewhere between 1 and 1.3 Ghz. They were basically updated Pentium 3 chips and most of them had some kind of micro drive for storage.
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FilthyImp posted:I had one of those WinCE phones and yes, they had no idea how to adapt Windows-style UI/UX for something that size. I never worked as a computer toucher, so I'm just realizing now that the acronym describes the user experience
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Lowen SoDium posted:The one I posted was actually full Windows XP, which is why they ran so bad with such bad battery life (not that WinCE was a pleasure to use). They had Intel Core Solo CPUs running at somewhere between 1 and 1.3 Ghz. They were basically updated Pentium 3 chips and most of them had some kind of micro drive for storage. Time until LGR swims in a pile of these: six months
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Oct 14, 2019 05:07
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I think he already did a video about them
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Lowen SoDium posted:I posted earlier (in either this thread or the Tech Relic thread) about testing the Sony equivalent of that thing for work. Does the screen slide up to reveal the keyboard or did it always look...weird. And is that a camera flash?
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Oct 14, 2019 05:32
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Krispy Wafer posted:Does the screen slide up to reveal the keyboard or did it always look...weird.
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Oct 14, 2019 05:36
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Krispy Wafer posted:Does the screen slide up to reveal the keyboard or did it always look...weird. It looks like a fingerprint reader.
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Trabant posted:This is pretty neat: However, I hated the date feature on pictures and always made sure it was turned off on the one camera I had that used it. Kinda feel bad for the poor humans who had to glue those millions of mirrors and whatnot into place.
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It's the BonziBuddy that really tells you the most about it, I think.
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I still really like having mini-Windows PCs around. I've got a tiny, cheap Netbook that runs Windows 10 slowly. However, it can run most 90s games at full speed, so I can mess around with Doom, Quake, old Resident Evil games, Bioware RPGs and Tomb Raider on the go.
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I worked for a company in the late 90s that did outsource QA for Entertainment software. We got a contract from Hasbro to test WinCE versions of Trivial Pursuit, Monopoly, and a bunch of other stuff on a ton of those early PDAs. Those things ate batteries and were so miserable to use.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Does the screen slide up to reveal the keyboard or did it always look...weird. FilthyImp posted:Slide-up keyboards were big then. Something about having it look like a phone until you needed it to be a computer. Yep, the screen could slide up and down. Ornamental Dingbat posted:It looks like a fingerprint reader. Yeah, it was actually one of the first fingerprint readers I ever used that actually worked worth a drat. It was the style where you slid your finger over it, rather than press and hold
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Lowen SoDium posted:Yep, the screen could slide up and down. I still have a Dell 'hardened' laptop and my old Panasonic CF-7x that has that style of reader. Works great and you can enroll a few fingers. Presumably so you can still get in if you lose a few in a fire fight/silly workshop accident.
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Ya know, I totally forgot that the ubiquity of sliding keyboards for those things was due to needing to pull out a stylus if you were interacting with the On Screen Keyboard, because the screen wasn't very sensitive and because the keys were smushed so closely together to maximize the screen real estate. You could probably fat finger your way through a post with your nail or something. But it sure wasn't conducive to any kind of work
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I really, really wanted one of these: Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 A real keyboard instead of the WinCe 'use a tiny plastic stylus to tap on the screen like a woodpecker' and it used Linux! This last point was apparently a very desirable feature, though I am not sure it offered anything other than nerd cred. Fortunately, it was far too expensive to buy then and still too expensive to buy now, so at least I haven't wasted my money.
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Trabant posted:This is pretty neat: I had an APS camera which, in addition to the date, could burn one of several built in messages onto your pictures. The camera didn't say which phrase was which, you just had to remember that "3" on the display meant "GRADUATION DAY" would be burned into the photo and so on. These messages were turned on using a button the size of a single atom and stayed on until you turned them off, meaning you would eventually get a photo of a gravestone with "CELEBRATION" burned into it or have to send your insurance company crash pictures with "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" on them.
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Oh hey, sliders! i still have my old Propel, good lord this thing got beat up The keyboard was loving excellent and I'd still rather have it than even the best gesture keyboard. Lot easier to stash in small spaces than a modern phone too, the length/width of my 3xl makes it awkward far more often than the thickness of the old phone did. 
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Fender Anarchist posted:Oh hey, sliders! i still have my old Propel, good lord this thing got beat up What did you take that second picture with, a potato?
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ryonguy posted:What did you take that second picture with, a potato? my money is on webcam, which always loving suck.
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ryonguy posted:What did you take that second picture with, a potato? His turned-off monitor.
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Do you think that cell phones in 30 years will have a retro "webcam" filter?
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Do they not already
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it's just a lovely mirror shot cropped way down, sorry, i was lazy
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