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I recall seeing a certain cd player that played multiple cds in a car - but it was stored in the trunk. So you couldn’t change what was in the disc trays unless you pulled over. Am I imagining this?
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Dec 17, 2021 19:24
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no that was totally a thing
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Dec 17, 2021 19:25
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that was super common yeah, I guess the idea was that 6 CDs oughta be enough for anyone
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Dec 17, 2021 19:30
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Cracker King posted:I recall seeing a certain cd player that played multiple cds in a car - but it was stored in the trunk. trunk changers were absolutely a thing in the 90s, you could have a 50-disc changer back there and cycle through them from the head unit. the 6-disc pioneer changers with cartridges were popular when i was as in high school, some people would stick them under a seat but trunk was the more common location.
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Dec 17, 2021 19:31
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they were OEM fitment in loads of cars in the late 90s to early 2010s.
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Dec 17, 2021 19:44
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Those padded CD binders with mesh sleeves that were full of burned CDs of the music your friends liked, and of music they didn't but hey they have the .iso so why not, and which permanently resided in the glove compartment of their used 1990 Dodge Whatever.
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Dec 17, 2021 19:54
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The CD binders that attached to the sun visor
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Dec 17, 2021 19:55
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i have a 5 cd changer in the head unit 
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Dec 17, 2021 19:56
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Sweevo posted:they were OEM fitment in loads of cars in the late 90s to early 2010s. i just remembered that i have one in my trunk. no idea if it still works or not
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Dec 17, 2021 20:02
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graph posted:i have a 5 cd changer in the head unit Extremely rude thing to call your partner
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Dec 17, 2021 20:09
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Volmarias posted:Those padded CD binders with mesh sleeves that were full of burned CDs of the music your friends liked, and of music they didn't but hey they have the .iso so why not, and which permanently resided in the glove compartment of their used 1990 Dodge Whatever. i never had a car with a cd player, so instead i had one of those zippered cases that held like 40 tapes spine-up.
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Dec 17, 2021 20:36
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cassette tape to 8mm headphone jack. gotta hold that CD player the whole time bc it doesn't have antishock protection
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Dec 17, 2021 21:23
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Sagebrush posted:i never had a car with a cd player, so instead i had one of those zippered cases that held like 40 tapes spine-up. these were perfect for n64 carts. they are the same size as tapes, just thicker
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Dec 17, 2021 21:25
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You kids and your  compact discs.Let me tell you about 8-track tapes. KA-CHACK!
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Dec 17, 2021 21:47
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Presto posted:You kids and your Any eight tracks you got are probably gonna need to be reglued soon.
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Dec 17, 2021 22:22
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Sagebrush posted:i never had a car with a cd player, so instead i had one of those zippered cases that held like 40 tapes spine-up. for my 9th birthday i got a personalized llbean one
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Dec 17, 2021 22:29
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when i got a cd player for my 89 buick back in high school my dad REALLY wanted me to get a trunk cd changer instead. he thought they were way better. i disagreed and never regretted my choice
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Dec 17, 2021 22:33
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Achmed Jones posted:when i got a cd player for my 89 buick back in high school my dad REALLY wanted me to get a trunk cd changer instead. he thought they were way better. i disagreed and never regretted my choice Haha, man. Makes me think of all those lovely GPS systems that had a DVD player in the trunk or something.
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Dec 17, 2021 22:55
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defmacro posted:cassette tape to 8mm headphone jack poo poo was magic, still is
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Dec 17, 2021 23:08
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SYSV Fanfic posted:Haha, man. Makes me think of all those lovely GPS systems that had a DVD player in the trunk or something. that was just because it was the easiest way to get switchable map packs. Iirc you could get compact flash map sets around 2000. now of course it's just an SD slot.
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Dec 17, 2021 23:10
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:that was just because it was the easiest way to get switchable map packs. Iirc you could get compact flash map sets around 2000. now of course it's just an SD slot. a lot of them just have a usb port and save it to internal flash now, bring your own drive, download the file into the right directory, and update.
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Dec 17, 2021 23:19
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:that was just because it was the easiest way to get switchable map packs. Iirc you could get compact flash map sets around 2000. now of course it's just an SD slot. now built-in gps is increasingly not found on new cars at all since people just use carplay
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Dec 17, 2021 23:46
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i remembered something funny on the ride home but forget it now :\
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Dec 18, 2021 01:06
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graph posted:i remembered something funny on the ride home but forget it now :\ caught yourself in the rear view mirror, eh?
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Dec 18, 2021 01:10
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The_Franz posted:now built-in gps is increasingly not found on new cars at all since people just use carplay Most cars still have the GPS receiver because the chipsets are cheap, it's one less config to manage on the line, and it means you can sell your $10/mo telematics service to consumers. A side benefit of this is that when iPhones are connected to CarPlay, it'll switch to using the location provided by the car since you're going to get better data from the active antenna with a massive ground plane and view of the sky than trying to piece together the same data from within a steel box.
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Dec 18, 2021 01:14
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DamnGlitch posted:as a Mac kid it was pretty bogus going from daisy chainable scsi to slave/master + 2 mega slow usb1 ports scsi cards were absolutely a thing for PCs, they just cost more.
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Dec 18, 2021 06:42
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trunk mounted disc changers were still a thing well into the 00s. it took awhile for the all mighty aux cord to take over.
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Dec 18, 2021 09:36
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:scsi cards were absolutely a thing for PCs, they just cost more. I have a drawer of adapter 2940 and 3940 variants (all the way to U2fast2furious) that I just can’t bring myself to get rid of.
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Dec 18, 2021 18:28
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SCSI on PC was considered Cadillac. SCSI everything cost so much more compared to IDE/Parallel/Serial. I don't think I used a single PC with scsi anything while it was still relevant.
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Dec 18, 2021 19:29
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I remember a brief period where sound cards would have SCSI controllers on them for adding a CD drive and upgrading your PC to be "multimedia ready" in one kit. the best part about those car CD changers in the trunk was that meant there was a connector on the back of the head unit that took line level audio, so an aux cord upgrade was an easy <$10 mod.
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Dec 18, 2021 20:43
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ive got both the bmw trunkchanger (takes pioneer cartridges!) and the 5 disc in-dash in the ford i have never once used either. i thought about putting a couple DJ Icey mixes or whatever throwback poo poo in the expedition but then i remember i dont have any optical drives in the house any more lol
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Dec 18, 2021 20:44
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:scsi cards were absolutely a thing for PCs, they just cost more. I was just thinking going PowerPC to iMac, especially before burners were included by default
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Dec 18, 2021 20:54
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Hed posted:I have a drawer of adapter 2940 and 3940 variants (all the way to U2fast2furious) that I just can’t bring myself to get rid of. i remember the 2940s were like gold at my old office late 90s early 00s because they were one of the few cards supported by solaris for x86
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Dec 18, 2021 21:21
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as late as 2018 i was able to communicate with my old rear end samplers with a vanilla 2940 jammed into an old c2d box running win10. i was amazed when it...just installed
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Dec 18, 2021 21:53
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web-safe colors
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Dec 26, 2021 09:53
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three buttoned mice like what did the middle button even do
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Dec 26, 2021 10:46
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Wild EEPROM posted:three buttoned mice like what did the middle button even do create a twm window
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Dec 26, 2021 15:57
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Wild EEPROM posted:three buttoned mice like what did the middle button even do If you want to find out, try pressing down on your scroll wheel. Lotta mice have a third button hidden under there. Mine copy/pastes under x.
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Dec 26, 2021 16:05
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sometimes the mmb held the lmb down
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Dec 26, 2021 16:12
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Wild EEPROM posted:three buttoned mice like what did the middle button even do A lot of 3d modeling programs use the third button for some sort of navigation, like to tumble or pan the view. They also served as a scroll wheel (click once then move the cursor slightly down to scroll down at a constant rate) before actual wheels became popular.
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