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Japan keeps all the cutest cars for themselves, but Americans probably are too fat for most of them.
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Imagined posted:Japan keeps all the cutest cars for themselves, but Americans probably are too fat for most of them. A lot of them did make it to Europe, like those microvans are pretty rare these days but they used to be fairly common and Suzuki and Daihatsu offer a whole bunch of mostly tiny comedy cars to this day.
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GutBomb posted:About a year ago I downsized my retro-game collection by selling a lot of my console collection and listed two 27” CRTs on the local classifieds for free. Here’s a voice mail I got from an interested party. Lmao what the he k
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Phanatic posted:I used to work at Incredible Universe... I credit IU for being able to buy my very first Mac, a Performa 631CD. There was a "Black Hole" literal pile of unboxed odds and sods at a large discount. I grabbed the Mac, a 14" Apple MultipleScan monitor with speaker, and accessories.
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The Wurst Poster posted:Those projection TVs looked like poo poo is because they required regular maintenance. It's something that would be conveniently never mentioned on the show floor. No sane person would haul their monstrosity to a repair shop. Unless of course you are someone who's in intense competition with Joneses who would pay for in house service. My parents had one of those old projection TVs & asked if I wanted it in my dinky apartment when they bought a new 40" LCD. Hahaha, gently caress that noise, it was a piece of crap anyways & unless you wanna pay a moving company to haul that fucker up 3 flights of stairs in an apartment building with no elevators, I ain't interested.
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https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/280703689693395 Saw this Marketplace listing for a vinyl wrap machine. Look at the ancient Compaq and CRT used to control it.
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Johnny Aztec posted:https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/280703689693395 They took good care of it though.
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LifeSunDeath posted:always wanted a japanese micro truck, but drat they do not seem comfortable to ride in In case you aren't familiar with Regular Car Reviews (or hey, even if you are), check out their review of the Kei van. The video is "the automotive equivalent of talking about those weird flavors of Kit Kats." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL_T4Lr0uu8
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LifeSunDeath posted:always wanted a japanese micro truck, but drat they do not seem comfortable to ride in As A Slightly Tall Person, I feel I would be physically unable to drive this. I have sat in the driver seat of several mass market US cars and even with the seat back all the way my knees/thighs are on the bottom of the steering wheel. Never mind the fact that the wheel wells are part of your foot space. Can you drive this if you are not a manlet? My mother in law had a Mitsubishi Lancer that I could not drive. My legs were so tight against the steering wheel I could not turn.
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WITCHCRAFT posted:As A Slightly Tall Person, I feel I would be physically unable to drive this. I have sat in the driver seat of several mass market US cars and even with the seat back all the way my knees/thighs are on the bottom of the steering wheel. Never mind the fact that the wheel wells are part of your foot space. As another tallish person, I can say they are drive-able, but you wouldn't want to be going very far and the feeling of constant dread if you you had an accident is always there. At least the driver seat can usually have some adjustment, but if you are in the passenger seat, then you are just legs against dash, enjoying every bump in the road.
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WITCHCRAFT posted:Can you drive this if you are not a manlet? Not in Saudi Arabia.
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lil bip posted:As another tallish person, I can say they are drive-able, but you wouldn't want to be going very far and the feeling of constant dread if you you had an accident is always there. At least the driver seat can usually have some adjustment, but if you are in the passenger seat, then you are just legs against dash, enjoying every bump in the road. Unfortunately the crumple zone tends to be the footwells in an accident.
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Catzilla posted:Unfortunately the crumple zone tends to be the footwells in an accident. On the bright side, it'll solve the problem for the next time around of being too tall to drive a kei van.
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I just bought a car with a cassette player and thought it would be fun to make myself some proper mix tapes for it. Easier said than done. The one cassette recorder I have turns out not to work, and can only record from the radio anyway. No problem, charity shops always have a few old hifis or cassette decks, I'll just get one of those. But no. Not one for sale in the whole town. Not even a lovely old midi-system. But then I remembered something, I own one of these briefcase music centres:  So I dig that out, blow off the dust and to my amazement the tape deck works. Sounds good, even. But there's no ordinary 3.5mm input, it uses separate 3.5mm jacks for each channel. But I can work around that. I grab a 12v wall wart and some bits of bent wire and use that to power an in car FM transmitter, bluetooth my laptop to that and now I have the laptop audio running through the briefcase's radio. I stick a black tape in, hit record, set the level and the needle suggests the recording is going well. Except it has not, it's just silent. The whole thing was surprising. If you'd asked me a couple days ago if I can record cassettes, I'd have said yes!
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Horace posted:But then I remembered something, I own one of these briefcase music centres:
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That thing looks amazing, like something an East German DJ would have. What's the brand and model so I can pine after it?
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Aug 6, 2020 21:33
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It's the Sanyo G-2615N. My grandfather bought it at Harrods.  The thrills of stereo in an attache case. It can run on D cell batteries, and actually sounds decent. I wouldn't put any precious vinyl under that stylus though!
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lil bip posted:As another tallish person, I can say they are drive-able, but you wouldn't want to be going very far and the feeling of constant dread if you you had an accident is always there. At least the driver seat can usually have some adjustment, but if you are in the passenger seat, then you are just legs against dash, enjoying every bump in the road. I got to take a few laps in a Trabant last year. It's so loud you have to use a stage voice to hear each other over the engine (which sounds like a lawnmower), it belches huge clouds of exhaust and smells of gasoline and exhaust fumes inside, the ride is bumpy, and since I'm 6'2 my knees were against the dash and my head close to the roof. It was like being in a breadbox powered by a go-kart engine. One of the guys at the meetup took some guests over a speed hump so hard that he caught air.
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Horace posted:I just bought a car with a cassette player and thought it would be fun to make myself some proper mix tapes for it. Easier said than done. The one cassette recorder I have turns out not to work, and can only record from the radio anyway. No problem, charity shops always have a few old hifis or cassette decks, I'll just get one of those. But no. Not one for sale in the whole town. Not even a lovely old midi-system. I'd say the answer is still no. E:sorry I'm a bit too drunk to really comprehend the signal flow. I think I"m having a stroke. E2: Ok. I think i got it. I assumed that the sentence about the separate 3.5 channels had something to do with the power supply part. RoyKeen has a new favorite as of 02:24 on Aug 7, 2020 |
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Kamrat posted:Had a 32" widescreen CRT TV, it was so heavy it was hard to move by myself, once I got it in place I would never move it again until I got rid of it. My buddy bought a (to my memory) 40" Sony WEGA back around 2000. That thing must have weighed 400 lbs. It was very pretty, but you had to consider the floor under it for point load. I don't know how much he paid for it but it must have been obscene. God help you if your kid tipped it over on themselves. poo poo, if you tipped it on yourself you'd be pretty messed up. Still, it had great picture. The old front projection TVs sucked. Fuzzy and terrible. Now I can get a 38" LCD TV for $250 at Costco. The times, they are a changin'.
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I had a 20" WEGA for a long time, and even at that screen size it was a beast. Excellent image. I made the leap to a 32" LCD and it's funny how much less it weighs.
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Yeah I still have my 26" Sanyo CRT TV, and it weighs a ton. My 46" LCD weighs a fraction of it. I keep it around because it's got a great picture, t h i c c scanlines and takes component input. The Sanyo has absolutely nothing on my 20" Ikegami broadcast monitor, which I made the mistake of trying to move by myself once. My back still hasn't forgiven me.
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Aug 10, 2020 19:58
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Kamrat posted:Had a 32" widescreen CRT TV, it was so heavy it was hard to move by myself, once I got it in place I would never move it again until I got rid of it. There's one of these on the curb for free near me, next to a lovely chair that has a sign that says $30 on it
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Plinkey posted:There's one of these on the curb for free near me, next to a lovely chair that has a sign that says $30 on it 
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If you want to sell your CRTs, just call up a Smash Melee community, and you’ll be swimming in dough.
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i still use a 32 inch wega for retro games, mine takes rgb scart and while it's not a pvm it's a very clear and bright and colorful image
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I have a 69" CRT VDU but it only weighs 420 kg.
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FilthyImp posted:Imagine what scrambled po4n would look like on that thing! no, it's staying there 3D Megadoodoo posted:I have a 69" CRT VDU but it only weighs 420 kg. nice
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It's quite amazing how what's considered big/small has changed as well, when I had my 32" crt everyone kept saying how big my tv was. Fast forward to today and some people mention that my 32" lcd is small. In the 90's one of my friends got himself a 20" crt computer monitor and it felt so huge, by todays standards that's quite small. But I didn't envy that guy during LAN parties since it must've been a pain to lug that one along.
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Kamrat posted:It's quite amazing how what's considered big/small has changed as well, when I had my 32" crt everyone kept saying how big my tv was. Fast forward to today and some people mention that my 32" lcd is small. Isn't a 32" 16:9 smaller than a 32" 4:3?
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Kamrat posted:In the 90's one of my friends got himself a 20" crt computer monitor and it felt so huge, by todays standards that's quite small. But I didn't envy that guy during LAN parties since it must've been a pain to lug that one along. We used to rotate computers at our LAN cause the guy with the 20" CRT monitor had a decided advantage over the scrounged 15" ones. And if you were winning you had to switch to the clamshell Powerbook.
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That sounds absurdly expensive for a 38”. Aren’t those like $150 now?
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lord funk posted:We used to rotate computers at our LAN cause the guy with the 20" CRT monitor had a decided advantage over the scrounged 15" ones. And if you were winning you had to switch to the clamshell Powerbook. No such rules at our LAN-parties unfortunately 3D Megadoodoo posted:Isn't a 32" 16:9 smaller than a 32" 4:3? Height wise yes, but my crt was a widescreen, forgot to mention this
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Isn't a 32" 16:9 smaller than a 32" 4:3? what kind of maniac doesn't use a 16:10 for a computer
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Isn't a 32" 16:9 smaller than a 32" 4:3? A 32" 4:3 would be 25.6" x 19.2" whereas a 16:9 would be 27.9" x 15.7". The 4:3 technically has more area. Use that how you will.
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Plinkey posted:what kind of maniac doesn't use a 16:10 for a computer LOL if u even know. Widescreen is widescreen.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:LOL if u even know. Widescreen is widescreen. i could tell on smaller monitors, like when they were 20-22 inches, but yeah after 24 it doesn't make much of a difference e: my first LCD was a I think 21" 4:3 talk about obsolete
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Last Chance posted:That sounds absurdly expensive for a 38”. Aren’t those like $150 now? For like a 720p roku tv i think. The 4k 38" sets at Walmart go for around 250 - 300
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