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a couple of months ago we upgraded to a breaker box from this that in turn was an upgrade from a single fuse linked to cloth covered wiring stapled to the framework of the house. on another note here is something that was more or less forced into obsolescence  yes that is a razor blade sharpener and it works bloody good too
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I love those old singers if not only for their simplistic and durable construction but also the neat little contraptions you can attach to them. 
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WebDog posted:In Australia you'd either end up in a Dick Smith's store or a Tandy's - basically the Aussie Radioshack where they started off selling CB radios and kit systems along with regular electronics like phones and so on. Have I got a book for you  It reads pretty much like something a kid would pick up to try and goad their parents into getting a system 80 saying "look dad it does tax returns and banking" also there is this hilarious thing.  How many bets it's just electronic sex dice.
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Wow considering it's age that thing is pretty clean for a workshop computer, it's not covered in cigarette burns and still has all the keys, I have seen machines less than 5 years old in worse shape.
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Kamrat posted:So 8-bit guy recently released this video for those interested: I had one of those, it was fun for a while until it burned out all the composite circuits on our vcr  , I pulled it apart out of curiosity to discover the thing was mostly empty besides a matchbox sized ccd.
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You Am I posted:My first computer was a Dick Smith VZ300, which was a rebadged Laser 310. I remember hating it cos I wanted a C64. I keep forgetting to scan and upload this silly thing to archive.org.  It's glorified pamphlet for dick smith's rebadged trs80 knock off the video genie.
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Mar 7, 2022 10:31
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I totally recommend the free NASA eBook Dressing for altitude if you are interested in the development of pressure suits, there are some pretty funny prototype suits in there like the shuttle crew rescue ball.
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Vile_Nihlist666 posted:How about inkjet word processors? Useful for maybe two years in the 90s, maybe. Wow I have seen a few daisy wheel word processors in the wild but I never would have guessed that there were inkjet ones, Can you still get the cartridges for it? it looks pretty neat.
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Oct 13, 2022 11:40
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Damm that's a cool machine, If I had one of those I'd have it running all day making posters and woodworking plans, I wish I could take it but sadly I am on the other side of the world.
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Oct 30, 2022 00:33
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His Divine Shadow posted:I saw some of these and got flashbacks to the 80s. I love these lights. I wonder if you can still buy them somewhere with leds instead. I have strong memories of those strings, mainly how incredibly painful it was to step on a cap that fell off.
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Dec 1, 2022 01:45
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handoferis posted:Feels like a good time to post the keyboard I'm writing this post on. Who needs desk space?  You glorious bastard Is that a god dam beam spring keyboard? holy poo poo I'm jealous.
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One of the bits I remember from reading about lineshafts is if one of the cast babbitt bearings lost lubrication they could heat up enough from the friction to start dripping molten metal on the floor. If you have never heard of cast babbitt bearings they are a brilliantly simple to make yet surprisingly robust bearing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_zmuB2upmY
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VictualSquid posted:Some kind of hand held plotter. I have one of those NC scribers I found on the roadside sorry for the crummy old photo  Mine needs new belts and has a dead lcd but when I first picked it up I could put a pen in the holder and make it write what I typed on that wacky alphabetical keyboard, all up it weighs about 13 pounds due to there being a great big honkin power transformer inside the briefcase style base station.
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Apr 14, 2023 12:49
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I remember playing half life one time and it started playing the wrong music, I had two cd drives at the time and had forgotten to take a game disk out the other drive so the game was playing the redbook audio from the other disc.
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Armacham posted:Anyone else have this bad boy? Took me a while to dig it out of my collection but I got its grand daddy from back when you could still find classic big boxes in thrift stores.  It tells a tale of woe.    The funny thing about it is that even though it's this giant collectors set box is that besides a sheet of cards and the decoder wheesl all the feelies like the maps are just printed on the same sort of really thin glossy paper that discount store catalogs are made of. A game with Lackluster collectables that didn't even work out of the box, the more things change the more they stay exactly the same.
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looks like the big ones still in use are made like a barrel with staves and hoops. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03UhJrxF9eE
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Aug 9, 2023 09:52
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Anyone here ever see a video 2000 machine? I remember finding a stack of like 5 or six movies next to the beta section at the video store back in the day and being like what the gently caress does this thing even play in.
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That's cool as gently caress but at the same time I feel like I'd break one of the wires five minutes after getting it.
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