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barbecue at the folks posted:On Amigas, if you had enough RAM, you could save the entire OS on the ramdisk and get lightning fast reboots without having to stick your workbench disk into the drive every time your system crashes! 
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I looked back in college and could not believe that filmstrips had once counted as a treat. But they did, honestly. In high school, the A/V club (hence the site name) were the people who knew how to run the film projectors and would go from classroom to classroom running movies. Then VHS tapes came in.
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Looking at an old car at an auction, it had an old MTS phone.  I remember my dad having these in his truck. you would have to pick it up, give your own phone number and the number you wanted to call and the operator would connect them like an old timey wall phone.
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Powershift posted:Looking at an old car at an auction, it had an old MTS phone. An absolute treasure!
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Powershift posted:Looking at an old car at an auction, it had an old MTS phone. it took me an embarrassing amount of time to see the background of this photo as anything but a hideous bristly fleshscape
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Powershift posted:Looking at an old car at an auction, it had an old MTS phone. In the old TV show "Mannix" one of the things that made him cool was that he had a phone like that in his car.  
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Dick Trauma posted:In the old TV show "Mannix" one of the things that made him cool was that he had a phone like that in his car. Back in the early 70s, the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago had an exhibit showing telecommunications that involved a doctor on the road receiving an emergency call on his MTS phone from a hospital, and all the different switching and routing steps that required starting at the hospital's phone network. It was very cool for a 6 year old Humbug.
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Mannix would've appreciated that because he got knocked unconscious in about 90% of the episodes.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Back in the early 70s, the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago had an exhibit showing telecommunications that involved a doctor on the road receiving an emergency call on his MTS phone from a hospital, and all the different switching and routing steps that required starting at the hospital's phone network. It was very cool for a 6 year old Humbug. last time I went in the late '00s, they still had bottles of Orbitz at that museum. There's an obsolete and failed technology, a soft drink with neutrally buoyant stuff in it.
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Chainclaw posted:last time I went in the late '00s, they still had bottles of Orbitz at that museum. There's an obsolete and failed technology, a soft drink with neutrally buoyant stuff in it. * - neutrally buoyant stuff that didn't digest and gave you futuristic space turds a couple of hours later
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:futuristic space turds One hell of a new username
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU2hjhw1RCs E: gently caress 
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How I see it playing out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRsWP_-dO_c&t=163s
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Came across something that could result in a 2-hour Technology Connections video: It's an old-fashioned stove, right?  I mean, a bit small on the inside but still a stove:  But hold on, what's the deal with the leftmost compartment? It... slides out?  All the way out?  And the wooden top is removable?  To reveal a dishwasher?  If you're on Twitter, please send it to Alex so we can see a man lose his mind.
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Alex will start a whole new channel just for that. What the helllllllll it’s amazing.
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That's a glory hole for skeleton farts, bro. Also tom Scott tried it out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU2hjhw1RCs Wasabi the J has a new favorite as of 07:31 on Jan 26, 2022 |
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Trabant posted:Came across something that could result in a 2-hour Technology Connections video: That is absolutely amazing.
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How much soap are you meant to put into it?
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Croccers posted:How much soap are you meant to put into it? No clue. Given how much it looks like a beta version of what we use today, I wouldn't be surprised if it required bricks of lye soap. There is a video of it in action. I don't know whether it's broken, but at times it gets loud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N60m4KYPTeI
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I inherited a cast-iron frying pan.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I inherited a cast-iron frying pan. Nothing obsolete about cast iron son, welcome to the best pan you'll ever have.
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I didn't get a son.
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Cast iron pans are about as far from either "obsolete" or "failed" as it's possible to be.
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I inherited a wooden spoon.
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Imagined posted:Cast iron pans are about as far from either "obsolete" or "failed" as it's possible to be. As long as you care for them properly. It's really easy to ruin a cast iron pan if you don't know about their quirks.
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Imagined posted:I inherited a wooden spoon. A wooden WHAT?
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Kwyndig posted:As long as you care for them properly. It's really easy to ruin a cast iron pan if you don't know about their quirks. After cooking in cast iron and fussing with it for over a decade, I've decided that if your seasoning comes off at the mere threat of some Dawn, it wasn't really seasoning after all. Your grandmother never messed around with chainmail dishrags. My pans are better than ever.
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Kwyndig posted:As long as you care for them properly. It's really easy to ruin a cast iron pan if you don't know about their quirks. Not really. It's easy to temporarily make it unsuitable for cooking, but difficult to permanently make it unsuitable for cooking.
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Cast iron is wonderfully easy to care for. Give it a good rinse while its still hot and everything just comes right off. The only things you can do wrong are use soap on it or leave it wet, so just don't do those things. Wooden spoons are nice too.
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Fantastic Foreskin posted:Cast iron is wonderfully easy to care for. Give it a good rinse while its still hot and everything just comes right off. The only things you can do wrong are use soap on it or leave it wet, so just don't do those things. I keep mine oiled up too. It has it's own place in a cupboard essentially sealed up from bugs etc.
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Lmao at goons' love for their obsolete and failed stove-fedoras.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Lmao at goons' love for their obsolete and failed stove-fedoras. The virgin 22oz waif of an aluminum pan vs the chad 7lb home defense implement that can also cook stuff.
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Imagined posted:I inherited a wooden spoon. I inherited early onset arthritis.
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