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If I could somehow play my mp3s through a lovely old clock radio from 1992, I'd be delighted.
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Pastry of the Year posted:If I could somehow play my mp3s through a lovely old clock radio from 1992, I'd be delighted. before Bluetooth speakers were cheap/good/ubiquitous I rigged a cheap FM transmitter to my PC for this, to listen to music and audiobooks without having to burn them to CD, also for use in the shower with the waterproof radio worked p well but was pointless after getting a smartphone
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Nov 25, 2019 14:55
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Pastry of the Year posted:If I could somehow play my mp3s through a lovely old clock radio from 1992, I'd be delighted. One of the best clock radios I've ever had was this Radio Shack "Realistic" brand thing here that had stereo speakers on the sides. Adding an aux jack to this thing would be great. Sadly mine hit the floor one too many times and it died. 
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Nov 25, 2019 15:05
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Vanagoon posted:One of the best clock radios I've ever had was this Radio Shack "Realistic" brand thing here that had stereo speakers on the sides. Adding an aux jack to this thing would be great. Sadly mine hit the floor one too many times and it died. Definitely obsolete technology: Flip clocks. 
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Nov 25, 2019 15:57
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Phanatic posted:Definitely obsolete technology: Flip clocks. They say we're young and we don't know We won't find out until we grow
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Nov 25, 2019 16:09
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Phanatic posted:Definitely obsolete technology: Flip clocks. I think I got that exact unit at a yard sale in high school, but couldn't abide the constant sound of the motor running. I think I tore it apart and harvested the motor for some other use. I did use one of those Realistic clock-radios through middle school and high school, but on whatever model I had the alarm was something loving terrible. It didn't beep or anything, didn't start quiet and slowly rise, it just immediately switched on a full-volume tone that I somehow found disconcerting to hear even when fully awake. It was a godawful thing to wake up to; the few times I used the regular alarm rather than the radio, I'd wake up with my heart pounding, ready to run from whatever horrible danger was clearly about to strike. The closest thing I can think of is the UVB-76 tone heard on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UVB-76 but a single steady note instead of short bursts.
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Nov 25, 2019 16:14
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Fender Anarchist posted:They say we're young and we don't know It's cold out there every day
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Nov 25, 2019 16:30
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Pastry of the Year posted:If I could somehow play my mp3s through a lovely old clock radio from 1992, I'd be delighted. You can, get one of these and hook it up to the clock power and audio: https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/MpB1kKl6 I got a couple to retrofit all sort of stuff
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Nov 25, 2019 16:54
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Pham Nuwen posted:I think I got that exact unit at a yard sale in high school, but couldn't abide the constant sound of the motor running. I think I tore it apart and harvested the motor for some other use. I've had some of Buckethead's really disturbing noise tracks accidentally added to my sleep playlist before, like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5Rffmb1Ilc Not a fun thing to wake up to, even less fun to have slip into your dream and turn it into a horror movie shortly before you wake up.
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Nov 25, 2019 17:40
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I've still got my clock/tape radio from when I was, like 12 or 13? It's loving old, early 90s Red LEDs to preserve your night vision, SONY YOU IDIOTS the tape player still works and should still play as an alarm the FM dangly-wire antenna fell off but I still get passable reception the volume wheel is a bit borked and there's a fart's ghost's difference between between "secret murmur" and "SPLIT YE EARS" But conceivably I could plug a car tape adapter into it, plug that into my phone, set them to both go off at the same time and wake to STRESS by Justice but with that warm tape crackle.
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Nov 25, 2019 20:06
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Nov 25, 2019 20:18
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Nov 25, 2019 21:09
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Jesus Christ, I had this exact same clock for nearly 2 decades.
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Nov 25, 2019 21:10
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I would unironically use one of those now just because of how cool it is. I've been using a phone alarm since 2011. I use this tone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71-KVntDZ7c because it's the one guaranteed to yank me from sleep. I listen to music while I sleep but as soon as it changes to this my brain jolts awake. Because this is what I used for my very hated year in college every day and it creates such a visceral reaction in my body now.
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Nov 25, 2019 21:16
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For several years I woke up thanks to a combination phone/radio/alarm clock. Nowadays my mobile phone is my alarm clock, and both my alarm tone and ring tone are this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG5RNFm_STE
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Nov 25, 2019 21:23
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I can smell the electronic aroma coming from those vent holes.
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Nov 25, 2019 21:43
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SywExJR4lrI This makes a very good ringtone so I used it as my alarm for a while too.
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Nov 25, 2019 22:14
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 this beautiful boy has been waking me up for over 20 years. i have it set between stations so its sure to wake me up with the screaming cacophony of static and garbled spoken words, the way i prefer.
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Nov 25, 2019 23:30
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I never had a flip clock, but I think they're more beautiful than LED displays. Anyway, check this out, basically SMARTPHONE 198X
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Nov 25, 2019 23:41
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Last Chance posted:
I had one of those and a key feature with those type of alarms is that you can slam your hand on them like a leg of pork and the snooze button will get pressed. You don't get that satisfaction or response to groggy motor control from a smartphone.
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Nov 25, 2019 23:42
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I think my dad still has one of those.
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Nov 25, 2019 23:50
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Sair posted:I think my dad still has one of those. Everyone's dad still has one of those.
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Nov 25, 2019 23:58
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Along with a good third to half of Best Western motels.
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Nov 26, 2019 00:08
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 Forgive the quick and mediocre cell phone picture. This has either been my bedroom clock or my older brothers’ for the last 25-odd years. The cover thing for whatever has been missing equally as long. It occasionally had a buzzing noise and I’m tempted to replace it, but have yet to pull the trigger.
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Nov 26, 2019 00:21
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Shut up Meg posted:I had one of those and a key feature with those type of alarms is that you can slam your hand on them like a leg of pork and the snooze button will get pressed. I was once on work travel in a hotel that had two snooze buttons on the alarm. One turned the buzzer off for several minutes. The second one turned the buzzer off for 24 hours. And yes, the two buttons were right next to each other. That's some Thomas Midgely-level design.
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Nov 26, 2019 00:48
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RetroManCave has an interesting video where he invites guests from both sides of the Atlantic to compare the US and UK Amiga scenes back in the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l2_tgwl8GU Also, The 8-Bit Guy is officially cancelled for describing Young Sheldon as "one of my favorite TV shows" in his 1-million subscriber special (currently up for Patreon supporters).
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Nov 26, 2019 00:49
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Alas, some of us are super heavy sleepers. The original Screaming Meanie, guaranteed to wake your neighbors and cause hearing loss.
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Nov 26, 2019 01:28
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chitoryu12 posted:
At first I was going to ask "what's wrong with this?" Then it changed over, and yeah. God Bucket is good, but so loving prolific and weird. I really should have gone to see him live when he was in town.
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Nov 26, 2019 03:07
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Mr.Radar posted:Also, The 8-Bit Guy is officially cancelled for describing Young Sheldon as "one of my favorite TV shows" in his 1-million subscriber special (currently up for Patreon supporters). So 8 is not just his favourite word size.
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Nov 26, 2019 03:40
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Unperson_47 posted:Jesus Christ, I had this exact same clock for nearly 2 decades. Me too (but more like a decade), but somehow a bunch of ants decided to nest in it and it was never the same since.
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Nov 26, 2019 03:44
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Gromit posted:Me too (but more like a decade), but somehow a bunch of ants decided to nest in it and it was never the same since. I had one for at least a decade too when I was pretty young, that alarm noise is still ingrained in my head. Neat how so many people had that model. Manages to stir a lot of memories for me thinking back to it.
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Nov 26, 2019 04:32
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Manuel Calavera posted:At first I was going to ask "what's wrong with this?" Then it changed over, and yeah. God Bucket is good, but so loving prolific and weird. I really should have gone to see him live when he was in town. I've seen him three times. He still managed to do things with a guitar I never thought of. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYZTjZ58vHE
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Nov 26, 2019 04:53
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Manuel Calavera posted:At first I was going to ask "what's wrong with this?" Then it changed over, and yeah. God Bucket is good, but so loving prolific and weird. I really should have gone to see him live when he was in town. Also after posting that cool video I should point out that's the second time Buckethead has accidentally infiltrated my nightmares. The other track was this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-7sFT9M5K0 It was the part around 1:50 specifically. I remember it was a nightmare of very dusty skeletons with some flesh still on the bone right as that started playing. Whenever I'm about to wake up I'll often have some of the music playing start infiltrating my dream, and that came in at the exact right time to scare the unconscious poo poo out of me. Which is especially awful because that song is named after his mother and it was an album meant to give her something nice to listen to while she was recovering in the hospital! I'll never understand how that dude thinks.
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Nov 26, 2019 06:52
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My dad still has his. He used it until he retired nearly a decade ago. It's in his bathroom now.
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Nov 26, 2019 07:07
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Last Chance posted:
Oh, hey, I use his hipster brother in law  I wish I had the choice of sticking it between stations, because the darn thing uses the power cord as its antenna and sure has some trouble locking on a station.
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Nov 26, 2019 07:23
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This is objectively the coolest Sony cube clock
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Nov 26, 2019 08:41
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Vanagoon posted:This is objectively the coolest Sony cube clock holy poo poo
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Nov 26, 2019 10:15
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Vanagoon posted:This is objectively the coolest Sony cube clock Meanwhile, here's a comparatively lame Sony cube clock  The alarm chime is too soft and polite for its own good, meaning I constantly sleep through them. It replaced this clock radio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WeC_K7qmaQ Which I had for drat near 15 years. It had a properly obnoxious buzzer that made UVB-76 sound restrained in comparison. Sadly, it stopped keeping time properly. 90s Solo Cup has a new favorite as of 10:31 on Nov 26, 2019 |
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Nov 26, 2019 10:26
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Vanagoon posted:This is objectively the coolest Sony cube clock Gorgeous 
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Vanagoon posted:This is objectively the coolest Sony cube clock I need this like yesterday.
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