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LifeSunDeath posted:holy poo poo this guy has banks of old telcom hardware, wtf. He actually runs a museum of old tech in the south east of England, in Ramsgate. I went there at the end of summer, great place! You can play around with most of the stuff that's been on the channel, that's ok to touch without breaking it. Pretty small and a bit cramped though. https://www.youtube.com/@THISMUSEUMISNOTOBSOLETE Here's the playlist for the organ.
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Hahaha nice typo me. But yeah he builds and restores all sorts of amazing stuff and there is years of solid content.
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Look Mum No Computer is my favorite youtuber, and when traveling is safe again, I would love to go check out that museum.
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Sam is a truly nice guy and a fantastic musician too!
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I usually applaud improvisation but this sounds very painful. Obligatory YOU DONT KNOW WHAT YOURE DOIN! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGL3rskcQD0
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I made a display case for my mini-collection of 1984 Seiko Pyramid Talking Clocks: https://i.imgur.com/FFvnZNW.mp4 Attempt was made at an artsier reveal: https://i.imgur.com/foWUrAG.mp4 I'll (eventually) upload a video about the clocks and the case construction for anyone else who's also into... impractical clocks and woodworking?
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Trabant posted:I made a display case for my mini-collection of 1984 Seiko Pyramid Talking Clocks: Obviously should've used Papyrus for the logo SMHD.
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That shot should be the beginning of a trashy 90's sci-fi flic.
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Just  if you don't know how to use the three pyramids.
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Dick Trauma posted:With the malls closing where do the olds go? Are they walking online in the METAVERSE? I'm much more interested in the 80's shopping mall video than I am the mall-walkers. Good for them, I say. (they are all dead now) My hometown still has a (once) major shopping-mall, now fallen into near-irrelevance. I'm shocked at how much things have changed since the late-80s/early 90s. My teen years and young adulthood were utterly dominated by the shopping mall. The absolute center of my social life. Game Stop. Chess King. KB Toys. Waldenbooks/B Dalton, Spencer's Gifts, The Great American Cookie Company. The best movie theater in town. One of my longer-term college jobs was selling Craftsman tools at Sears in a classic-era late-80s Texas mall. Holy poo poo, Sears in a mall...two anachronisms in one.
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Lincoln posted:I'm much more interested in the 80's shopping mall video than I am the mall-walkers. Good for them, I say. (they are all dead now) Chess King?
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Obviously should've used Papyrus for the logo SMHD. 
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YouTube served us this trash video (like shovelware of a video, shovelvideo?) about old mall stores and literally the only one I've heard of is Limited Too, and only bc they used to be the only retailer of Neopets merch and there were none in Canada >:( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_yErF5qdzE I would not have been surprised if these store names and images were created by AI. They all sound so incredibly fake
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Jan 5, 2023 16:35
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Here's obsolete technology, Craftsman tools that were good and highly regarded
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The only mall store I actively miss is the loving arcade. Western civilization peaked with Gauntlet II.
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Ariong posted:Chess King? Yes. Chess King.
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Phanatic posted:The only mall store I actively miss is the loving arcade. Western civilization peaked with Gauntlet II. Around the time Nintendo hit US shores, there was a store in my mall that sold nothing but Nintendo games, I loving loved that store.
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Phanatic posted:The only mall store I actively miss is the loving arcade. Western civilization peaked with Gauntlet II. gently caress yeah, the arcade kicked rear end. I don't know how many quarters it took (and I fear to know) but my brother and I eventually beat one of the 194X scrolling shooters, whichever one has you go to the moon in later stages.
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Ariong posted:Chess King? Pretty sure it was clothes iirc
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I cringe when I see a B. Dalton because I used to work in a Software Etc at the back of one. They were referred to as a SWIS: Store Within A Store. Mine closed while I was working there during college. I graduated into a recession featuring an accurately named "jobless recovery" and wound up not only working at that mall again, but in a new store in the exact same goddamn spot. At least I was able to show everyone how to get to the trash room. The back corridors of a big mall are like an extra-dimensional space.
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Phanatic posted:The only mall store I actively miss is the loving arcade. Western civilization peaked with Gauntlet II. I mean there are beercades now which are pretty great.
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I had some free time today, so I went to the mall to get a belt. Belk apparently sells TVs and appliances and furniture now. Bought a couple of belts and left. The end.
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Killingyouguy! posted:YouTube served us this trash video (like shovelware of a video, shovelvideo?) about old mall stores and literally the only one I've heard of is Limited Too, and only bc they used to be the only retailer of Neopets merch and there were none in Canada > Our mall (40 miles away) had most of these. No Wilson's, but my old MST3k tape of Mitchell still had its "WIL-SON'S-COAT-SAAAAAAAAAALE" commercials intact Phanatic posted:The only mall store I actively miss is the loving arcade. Western civilization peaked with Gauntlet II.  A good day in 1994/1995 was rocking the fuckin' Mortal Kombat II and Super Street FIghter II Turbo machines and loving off to Camelot Music next door to buy some Death Row albums or grunge tapes. They didn't have what you wanted, just go to the FYE on the other side of the mall
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Dick Trauma posted:The back corridors of a big mall are like an extra-dimensional space. It honestly rules, for a little while after working at a mall, I would explore the back corridors at other malls. I have seen Lovecraft passages scrawled on many a wall in those places too.
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AlternateAccount posted:Pretty sure it was clothes iirc It was clothes. Very trendy clothes.
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Most fanboyish thing I ever did: On the way home from a wedding in Cleveland, I detoured to the Monroeville Mall near Pittsburgh where they filmed the original Dawn of the Dead. Even the public spaces there were empty, foreboding, and weird but they did have zombies, Keaton Batman, and Mr. Rogers all sharing a mural in one of those spaces so
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Iron Crowned posted:It honestly rules, for a little while after working at a mall, I would explore the back corridors at other malls. I have seen Lovecraft passages scrawled on many a wall in those places too. Sometimes that didn't work out so well
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That's why those back passages are usually off limits to the public, but due to malls not having any money, this is rarely enforced. When I was a teen we used to cut through the back corridors to get to the Bishop's without having to walk through the whole mall from the food court or the Penny's.
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I watch a lot of dead mall youtubers and by far the scariest one I’ve ever seen was one where they went into the back corridors and got lost among all the fire doors, some of which were locked. After seeing that I wouldn’t even want to try in a well staffed mall.
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I worked in a mall for a season and got to go in the back corridors a bunch moving boxes from the truck to the store, and it's really not that interesting back there.
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Phanatic posted:The only mall store I actively miss is the loving arcade. Western civilization peaked with Gauntlet II. Whenever I smell a stale cigarette it time warps me back to our local arcade.
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quote:Today, tech archivist Jason Scott announced a new website called Discmaster that lets anyone search through 91.7 million vintage computer files pulled from CD-ROM releases and floppy disks. The files include images, text documents, music, games, shareware, videos, and much more. quote:Discmaster is the work of a group of anonymous history-loving programmers who approached Scott to host it for them. Scott says that Discmaster is "99.999 percent" the work of that anonymous group, right down to the vintage gray theme that is compatible with web browsers for older machines. Scott says he slapped a name on it and volunteered to host it on his site. And while Scott is an employee of the Internet Archive, he says that Discmaster is "100 percent unaffiliated" with that organization. http://discmaster.textfiles.com/
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your pullquote confused me but i wasn't remembering wrong and it did come out a few months ago
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Hah, thanks! This helped me find some long lost software toy junk, a newtonian celestial mechanics simulator from 1993 that I found cool as a kid  Is there a way to download everything from a page like that with just one click?
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I just randomly searched for scorch.zip and found multiple versions and even a savegame editor!
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I’m having a good lol at the adult discs that look like they were transferred from a VHS that was ran over by a car, I have to imagine the discs were a lot cheaper.
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holy poo poo!!!!! I was going to make this specifically for clip art but I gave up because  http://discmaster.textfiles.com/view/11027/12,000%20Clip%20Art%20Plus.iso/content/people/04/08560pe.wmf I love this
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Rappaport posted:Hah, thanks! This helped me find some long lost software toy junk, a newtonian celestial mechanics simulator from 1993 that I found cool as a kid jdownloader should prob be able to do it
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 somehow we found a disk with all these images, just a mashup of what must have been some kinda TTRPG art stuff or like science fantasy pics. it was so cool & weird i wonder if somebody archived it. The one i remember most was like a 4 armed weird dragon alien thing. But this was before you could burn cds, it was an actual disk you could buy, with what seemed like actual art
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