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Was it the A50? I had one as my first phone, loved the little thing. 
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Did pausing a VCR over extended periods of time damage it in any way? When I was a kid I warned my friends about doing that, but can't quite remember how I got that notion in my head. I'm inclined to believe it's bullshit, like 90% of the things I believed then.
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Oct 2, 2012 19:43
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Oh man, I haven't seen one of those in 20 years! My parents had one they just kept as decoration, and as a kid it was so much fun just to work that pedal. 
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Oct 10, 2012 00:34
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They've just hidden the Digg button somewhere. Search every pixel!
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Jan 1, 2013 16:08
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Nixie tubes! Not sure if they've been mentioned yet, but they're so loving neat. If I wasn't electronically retarded, I'd love to make a set myself.
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Jun 29, 2013 19:55
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Jerry Cotton posted:Yes, it's obviously a nixie tube calendar. I'd like to think it's a clock, and the seconds just zoom by.
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Jun 29, 2013 20:30
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Shugojin posted:Well that would make the reading meaningful, but I don't know how well those do seconds. In The Watchmen, they were used for the timer lock when Jon/Doctor Manhattan got trapped inside, and it used seconds at least. It just looked spiffy 
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Jun 29, 2013 20:41
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The original SA80 was terrible and had a bunch of serious faults. Once they got H&K to work it over, it actually became a viable assault rifle! I am still sad that the EM2 never took off, and I'm not even British. But the US stepped in, said "Adopt the 5.56mm cause we just built the M-16." Nevermind that the original M-16 had it's own major faults that had to be corrected by introducing the M-16A1, and a comic book to help the soldier maintain his new weapon. Whenever you hear a Vietnam vet calling the M-16 an unreliable Mattel toy, they're most likely talking about the first version. fake edit: Please correct me if I'm wrong, I'm going by memory here.
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Jul 2, 2013 21:50
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Pham Nuwen posted:I was just pointing out that the radiation from cell phones and wifi is incredibly harmless compared to actual ionizing radiation. All the cell phone will do is potentially warm your body very very slightly when in use. I was just thinking that when I was a good 50 meters away from my apartment building, and my phone picked up my wifi router through a bunch of concrete. "Huh, a lot of people are getting radiation right now because of me, cool!" The only problem I have with cell phones, is that the ear piece gets warm after a decent conversation. That must be the radiation.
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Jul 16, 2013 20:01
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Can any Eurogoons chime in here? I've never used and sort of 'dryer sheets' or fabric softener in my life. Have I been wasting my washing experience?
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Jul 22, 2013 21:07
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Groke posted:And every kid in school would trade you tapes with pirated games. Or disks, when those became widespread. You just reminded me of this beauty our family had for our Commodore 128:  Also the fun thing about the cassette players was fiddling with the screw to adjust the static or whatever it did. I think I had this one:  (didn't everyone?)
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Nov 28, 2013 16:34
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My phone doesn't even have a floppy drive. The future is BULLSHIT.
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Jan 17, 2014 23:07
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Film is really interesting to learn about, thank you guys for sharing! Do you need to learn about most of this stuff as a projectionist? Because that's always been a job I'd like to do.
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Jan 19, 2014 22:46
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Tena Twister posted:Oh, weird. My mom just found one of these (in white) that I had back in like 1992-- it apparently annoyed her so much that she took it from me and put it on top of one of our kitchen cabinets to ensure I wouldn't be able to get at it. Annnnd it stayed there till Nov 2013, when she finally found it again and gave it back to me. The original batteries somehow still work, even. It's insane. No wonder she kept it!
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late 90s overclocking of CPUs could be a scary adventure if you had one of those motherboards that could not do it via the BIOS (I can't remember when those became more common.) My memory is really fuzzy on this one, but as I recall you had to move around jumpers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumper_(computing) and set DIP switches http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIP_switch to set both the Front Side Bus (FSB) and the CPU multiplier. This was also the time where you had jumpers on the back of your CD and floppy drives to determine which was 'master' and which was 'slave' on the IDE data connectors. Set it up wrong and your poo poo didn't work. The most common FSB frequencies were 66 and 100 MHz and then the CPU multiplier would determine the frequency on the CPU. My first computer had an AMD K6 300 MHz CPU, FSB of 66 MHz and multiplier of 4.5. There were also switches to set the CPU voltage, which was crucial if you wanted your overclocking to run smoothly, especially in the high frequency range. It could also fry your system if you didn't know what exactly you were doing. I fit into the latter part. I read a magazine article about OCing and got the basic gist of it, but one time I hosed up the voltage, and the thing was fried. I lied to my parents and said that 'it just blew up' and we sent it back to the store. In return I got a sweet upgraded motherboard with an even better AMD K6-2 350 MHZ as the K6s were ancient at that point, free of charge. Also the great AMD-Intel-Cyrix war was raging at the time, with AMD CPUs being the best bang for the buck and Intel's being super expensive despite there being very little difference in performance.
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Mar 16, 2014 19:32
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Coffee And Pie posted:I don't get the point of the key not opening the trunk, don't all cars have a release button/lever somewhere for it? There are several devices that can plug into it and utilize the 12 Volt, like coolers or fans. It is a rather odd installation thinking back on it, though. Very 50's, gotta be able to light a cig at any time! After a 10 second wait.
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I was just going to say that Denmark has a rather easy system for that. For instance, for the first time in 10 years until now, I had to pay a tiny bit back. All other years it was auto-calculated that I needed a return pay. I know poo poo-all about taxes, except from that episode from Simpsons.
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Apr 11, 2014 02:00
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Computer viking posted:Here is a random 38 sq.m. apartment in a much newer building (I'd guess late 1990s). One of the pictures is the shower/bathroom. I have a 37 sq./m. one bedroom, meaning living room has the bed, in Denmark that looks like total crap compared to that. Bathroom is slightly bigger, but there is no room in the kitchenette for anything but two hot plates and a tiny combi-oven. That I live in a apartment complex from the 70s and there's no money to renovate lovely 1-bedroom apartments like mine might have something to do with it. Now I'm depressed  edit: to be fair, I'm not in the Copenhagen area, and it's $385/month + utilities.
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May 13, 2014 18:11
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That seems fun to me! I like cycling, but it's loving boring in the gym, even if you have music or something to watch.
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Jun 3, 2014 19:59
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuYs94x7oyU foreeeveeeerrr That was so amazing to me when I saw it on a friend's Voodoo card, before I got my own Voodoo2.
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Jun 5, 2014 01:28
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I remember connecting two computers via 'null modem' which was a serial-to-serial network connection. The days before TCP/IP were dark indeed.
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Jul 26, 2014 04:08
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drat gypsies roaming all the time.
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Nov 11, 2014 21:02
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Smoke posted:battery life of over a week. How I miss not having to charge my phone every other day.
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Nov 25, 2014 14:23
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My parents made the excellent decision to buy a Mac as our first family computer ca. 1995. Roughly £1500 for a Power Macintosh Performa 5200/75 LC with 500 MB HDD, 8MB RAM and a blistering fast 75 MHz CPU. I spent over a month's wages as a Childhood trauma if you ask me. old bean factory has a new favorite as of 21:47 on Nov 25, 2014 |
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Nov 25, 2014 21:39
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wipeout posted:Can it pick up... Radio goatman? 
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Dec 7, 2014 23:31
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WWJD? Slap a bitch that's what
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Jan 5, 2015 08:36
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I'm not ashamed to admit that I would be reading D&D game manuals in bed at night.
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Jan 5, 2015 19:38
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:John Oliver sums it up better than I ever could: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDylgzybWAw Holy hell, I didn't know it was that bad. Just when I think people can't be any more unscrupulous, I always get surprised 
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My mind was opened when I was taught how to use mouse+keyboard in Quake. I say 'taught' when it was more like a friend at my first LAN asking me what the hell I was doing. It was a bit alien since the 2.5D FPS games before that were pretty much keyboard only and autoaim 
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I got into PCs during the win95/98 crossover period, and besides being told to defrag a lot, I should apparently also partition my drive(s) because of the pagefile. I don't know when that started to become obsolete, but I kept that up until like, Vista. It wasn't until I got big enough drives to give up that practice. It was somehow soothing to have C:->F: drive being all neat and tidy. Win98 SE was a great loving OS though.
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I loved PC mags. Before they died out here, one of the publishers decided to put hardcore porn on their software CDs, with a very (not) sophisticated age gate. That was weird, but 15 year old me decided it was a great move. Oh yeah, it was from a guide on overclocking that I learned how to make my motherboard produce blue smoke. Good times. old bean factory has a new favorite as of 21:50 on Feb 7, 2015 |
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dot-matrix printed letter, folded into a paper plane
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peter gabriel posted:Way back when I had a a Saturday job at a PC place, small shop that a great guy ran and he built me my first PC out of 'bits' - I had Apple Macs at the time, mainly for college work. Jesus, that must've been expensive. I was so stoked when I got a Voodoo2 as an xmas present. Playing Quake in software mode with a 4 MB S3 ViRGE card wasn't a grand experience. And the textures! So smooth!
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While we're down memory lane; early CD-ROM burners that did not have buffer underrun protection. Having to sit and wait for up to an hour for the disc to be burned, and then discover it had turned into an expensive beer coaster was a bit frustrating, to say the least.
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Collateral Damage posted:Oh I know, but when I had a C64 at 7-8 or so I never had a floppy drive, just the shoddy tape drive that needed retuning every time you wanted to load another tape. I loved that. It's like a mini game!
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Feb 24, 2015 13:18
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Zeether posted:The talk about copying games on C64 reminded me of "cracktros". If you got a hacked C64 game more than likely you'd get something like this before the actual title screen: Oh man I loved those. It seemed the wavy text was a thing every intro had. Amiga ones were beautiful. Demo scene is still alive and well, last I checked.
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Mar 1, 2015 18:27
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Imagine a bunch of rats eating through to the tetanus factory, getting all sliced up and running amok. That has to have happened at some point.
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Fine, I don't know anything, imagine the bleeding rats running around with rabies or something then 
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Star Man posted:Right, the hypotenuse would be the same. I just don't know how you accurately make that measurement when the door frame is already built and all you have is a single length of string unless you have a twelve-foot armspan. I wish I was high on potenuse!
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