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My eclectic collection of obsolete tech: Something I haven't seen mentioned is the Rio Karma. It was a 20 GB hard-drive based MP3 player notable for its support of FLAC and gapless playback of the electronica poo poo I listened to at the time. I still have it, and should really see of it's worth anything. I also went all-in for MiniDiscs, can't remember offhand if they did gapless or if it was another reason I wanted them. Had a portable recorder, car deck, and home component-sized recording deck. The TI calculators own, and I think if I had started with RPN, I'd be a huge fanboy of the HP stuff. My dad had a HP calculator that was the size of a TI-89 and had four expansion slots, one of which interfaced with a thermal printer, I believe. TurboGrafx16 owned, and I would have killed for the color portable that played the same cards as the full-sized console at the time when the original Game Boy was out (I think). I had one of those electronic organizers in like 1995. It sucked. Also still the proud owner of a Compaq iPaq along with a sleeve that housed a second battery and expansion slot. Was great for synced contact info and reading ebooks. Though I think I mainly read project gutenburg stuff that were essentially text files, my memory is hazy on that. I don't believe you could buy current releases. I had an early model Samsung Blu-ray player that was always refusing to play discs because of firmware. Samsung was pretty reactionary with the firmware releases, they'd always be a month or two later than the movie releases. After a while they just stopped doing updates. Pretty frustrating to get your sweet Netflix new release on BD (when BD access didn't even cost more than a regular subscription) and have it just hang trying to load. I shudder to think of what all that money would get me today if it was instead invested. I have one Rubbermaid organizer representing probably $4k in retarded technology spending. Maybe more. uwaeve has a new favorite as of 17:23 on Jan 21, 2014 |
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Falcon 1.0 on a Mac SE. Brought to me by Gilman "Chopstick" Louie. I still have the mini binder that served as the instruction manual for 4.0, it's incredible.
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Feb 8, 2014 14:17
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Not to interrupt the RIM hate, but from a few pages back there was some VCRchat. In sometime like 1983-5, my dad bought a VHS camcorder/VCR combo. The VCR was split into two decks, one of which held the cassette. For using the camera. Like you were tethered to this huge europurse brick thing that weighed probably 30 pounds as you were trying to capture precious moments. I can't find a good picture but you oldsters will know what I'm talking about.
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Mar 13, 2014 19:51
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Lazlo Nibble posted:Sounds like one of JVC's Vidstar portable systems: I'm pissed I can't find pictures but he thinks it was a JVC (though it didn't look too much like the JVC posted, the form factor was the same). We figured out it was 1984 or 85, was probably >$2k, and weighed loving 40 pounds or something. The thing was, the camera was way larger than that 67 Sony thing, including what we are pretty sure was a tiny monochrome CRT. The thing was definitely a shoulder camera, like broadcast style. The tape deck was probably like 80% of the volume of that 67 Sony thing. loving insanity.
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Mar 17, 2014 00:53
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:Oh man, monitor chat! Years and years ago, I was sick of my "hire-someone-to-help-you-move-it" Trinitron (good god why were those things so loving heavy), so I bought this piece of hotness: To be fair it's probably your fault for bringing your monitor to a robbery.
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Mar 27, 2014 16:19
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Keiya posted:It's not really obsolete technology, but we found a nearly 200-year-old bible cleaning out my grandmother's house. That's kinda cool, right? (No photos because holy poo poo none of us want to touch it now that we know what it is) Was it doing a good job?
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Lowen SoDium posted:The best was Falcon 3.0 That was 4.0  BIG HORNY COW posted:I played everything with joysticks, including Interstate 76 from beginning to end with a Thrustmaster FCS. You needed the Thrustmaster F-22 with its cast metal baseplate and springs so strong there was no way to use the joystick without having the thing strapped down 
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