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nocal posted:When even Intel is making cell phone processors you mean like StrongARM and XScale?
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Blue_monday posted:What gets me though? That keyboard clits are still a thing. This is better than any other possible portable pointing device, including apple's multitouch trackpads and any touch screen. If you say otherwise you have obviously never used one and I will fight you.
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Jul 23, 2013 02:50
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Code Jockey posted:All the sim talk got me to break out my Logitech wheel and play some Gran Turismo 5 last night. I didn't even participate in any races, I just went to the used car lot, bought an '88 Celica GT-FOUR and just kind of drove around some of the easier tracks with it. If you like just driving around, check out BeamNG Drive; it's a car simulator, meaning it physically simulates the entire car; total physically simulated deformation when it crashes, chassis flex, break the suspension by driving over a bump, remove the suspension and drive it over bumps, drive a hatchback into the back of a panel van, then drive the panel van into the back of a box truck, then drive the box truck around, et cetera. It's definitely best with a wheel. atomicthumbs has a new favorite as of 09:05 on Feb 9, 2014 |
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My little brother had a remote controlled (via wire) front-end loader. It drove around, lifted and lowered the bucket, and when you pushed buttons on the remote, it would say "DROP IT. DROP IT." or "LIFT IT UP. [BEEEEEP BEEEEEP BEEEEP]." These phrases have become family in-jokes.A Pinball Wizard posted:If anyone is interested in owning some obsolete and failed technology themselves, someone in YOSPOS got a job selling stuff sent to electronics recycling and started a thread about it. Caveat: requires reading YOSPOS. YOSPOS ain't so bad once you get used to it 
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Feb 14, 2014 02:31
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KozmoNaut posted:Back when I worked at Bang & Olufsen are you responsible for the turntable and receiver I can't test without buying a separate control panel 
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Mar 19, 2014 21:33
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leidend posted:Mine looks like this The Mazda 2 is not an American car.
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Apr 2, 2014 22:19
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My Pioneer DEH-80PRS is the best head unit because it's not blue. Well, it can be blue, but I set it to white in the daytime and red at night. The interface is actually fairly intuitive to use, and I can scroll through my songs without looking at it except for a very brief glance to see where I am in the list.  It also has settings for an automatic aucoustics compensator using a mic that plugs into the aux in port, a CD player and SD card slot if you fold the faceplate down, various stereo time delay settings, and so on, but I just have an old iPod plugged in there and a dead passenger door speaker. Oh, and one of the backgrounds is "movie", which displays not movies from an iPod, but a loop of a soccer ball being kicked and turning into a shark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sok6FRjMZ_A
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Apr 9, 2014 08:17
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thrakkorzog posted:She might just have hipster parents. Growing up in the early 80s, my dad had a CD-player, a reel-to-reel tape recorder, and a record player. And he taught me how to use them all, even though that was really pointless in retrospect. except in the early 80s each of those were still relevant
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Apr 18, 2014 09:46
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y'all with your Palms and Handsprings. I had a Handera TRGPro; bought it at a garage sale for $5, and it served middle school me perfectly for years. It was based, hardware-wise, on a Palm IIIX. Behind that cover are a Compactflash card slot and an IRDA port. That's right, I filled this baby up with 128 megabytes of ebooks and programs. I even ended up getting a modem that clipped to the bottom so I could browse the internet!
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May 7, 2014 19:20
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:You could also try the Virtually Indestructible Keyboard: Jesus christ don't recommend people try to type on these things, that's horribly cruel
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May 8, 2014 19:57
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Sudo Echo posted:I live in San Fran and automatics are annoying as hell. No engine braking so you have to constantly be feathering the brakes down hills and up hills you know you can move the gear selector down to "2" or "1" to make it stay in lower gears, right
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May 12, 2014 00:31
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Code Jockey posted:Wow, that really reminds me of the old terminals at the public library I used to visit as a kid, used for searching through the library's catalog. The telnet catalog at my county library still worked the last time I connected to it, and it was faster to use than the web one!
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May 19, 2014 19:09
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cowtown posted:Given the thread that we're in, I'll assume you want to connect old Macs together and therefore I recommend Farallon PhoneNet: as long as you don't lose the loving terminators 
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May 25, 2014 23:12
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Drone_Fragger posted:I was under the impression that the OUYA is garbage and didn't the developers dumb it like a thick steaming turd straight after launch? Manky posted:Ouya: Y'all know what it is.
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Jun 16, 2014 00:49
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Flipperwaldt posted:My parents bought a Sony miniDV camera with both Firewire and USB. For some reason anything transferred over USB was of an awful analog video tape like quality. It was designed like that. What a huge disappointment that was. Why bother with a digital connection at that point. Those "USB Streaming" cameras had lovely quality over USB because, unlike FireWire, it doesn't have DMA support, and it has to reencode the DV data from the tape in real time into something lower-bandwidth, instead of just dumping the data from the tape over FireWire. That feature was only on cheaper camcorders.
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Dec 22, 2014 08:25
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Praseodymi posted:Just up the road from me, a combination payday loans shop and church. how illegal is it to run in here dressed in a robe, beard, and wig and start whipping people and overturning tables
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unless you're using "low budget" in its second modern meaning, i.e. "low production values"
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Atal Vataman posted:why not just shoot it digital, and tweak it in after effects or something afterwards? You fuckign sellout
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Jan 14, 2015 07:50
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Lazlo Nibble posted:Guaranteed he killed the pickup tubes, those are permanently damaged by any kind of bright light, not just a laser. in the 90s, this was almost certainly a 3CCD camera, not a tube camera. (speaking of obsolete technology...)
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Feb 12, 2015 09:04
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32MB OF ESRAM posted:Oh my god. Can you imagine selling products so bespoke and niche that you could just like.... allow that website to be shown to the world? Knowing full-well your customers will have no choice but to type their CC info into it? Geez The website is simple, clean, and has probably been functioning perfectly since 1998. It's better than a lot of newer ones, that's for sure
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I'm about to be transferring to art school to major in photography. Film photography is very much alive and well (and, at least for medium and large format, still looks better than digital).
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Apr 22, 2015 21:32
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And voltage stability for light meter circuitry not available from alkaline batteries.
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Apr 26, 2015 23:54
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Elliotw2 posted:They're literally tiny hard drives that used an expanded CF bus for data and power transfer. The CF interface is IDE 
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May 13, 2015 06:16
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Light Gun Man posted:My USB zip 250 drive served me incredibly well and without issue, I still have it and pull it out to use on occasion Stop Code Jockey posted:Maaaaan I want SGI hardware so bad. ...which hardware, if I might ask? atomicthumbs has a new favorite as of 03:52 on May 14, 2015 |
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May 14, 2015 03:49
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p-hop posted:Another fun memory from working at an electronics recycler/ebay lister. We would occasionally get network analyzers/sniffers, or as one of the guys there would call them, "lunchboxes." I forget what they were actually used for, but they went for a pretty decent price in ~2008 or so when we put them up for bidding on ebay. Probably one of those niche things that can't be replaced/upgraded unless you spend a ton of money to modernize your 20 year old network from scratch or something. If anyone is familiar with them, I'd love to hear more about the things. Fun fact: those Dolch keyboards are now basically the most desireable mechanical keyboard ever made on anything.
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May 14, 2015 18:58
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WebDog posted:The cost of buying a reader is $3,695.00. And you know it's bad when the National Sound and Film Archive doesn't have one.  There's a Sony PDW-1500 on eBay for $85. Where the hell are you looking?
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Jun 12, 2015 09:27
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Humphreys posted:Yoink! I'd say contact the seller and ask if they'd enable GSP (ebay's global shipping program wherein seller ships it to their shipping center and they send it overseas) just for the one item, as you're in Australia and in desperate need of a PD reader. a lot of sellers are reasonable and if you talk to them they'll do stuff like that if they're reasonably sure you're not a scammer.
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Humphreys posted:Cheers, I don't really want or need it, but find this gear interesting. Might send the seller a message, but shipping to Aus is painfully slow and expensive from the US. media digitization is a hobby/art materials source of mine, but I really don't need to be buying used Professional Disks on ebay when I already have so many video tapes... 
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Nuclear War posted:https://www.myus.com is pretty decent for this poo poo I wonder if there's an equivalent of this that'll ship from Sweden to the US. I need some Volvo parts.
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Jun 12, 2015 21:50
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:The inventory control program we used (gently caress yeah MS-DOS) would keep track of the ratio of how much we paid to how much we'd made off any particular title, and would alert us to move a movie from "HOT NEW RELEASES" or whatever to "CURRENT HITS" when it hit 1:1 to make room for new stuff. Did your store use Video Butler? The video store I worked at used it. It said "copyright 1986-2007" when it started up. This was in 2013. 
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Jun 14, 2015 21:04
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:Fair enough. I guess these days you normally don't really need to specify exactly what format you own music in. I guess it's a bit like how you usually don't say what format you own software in. 
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I work at an e-waste recycler. Until recently, I was the eBay guy; I still get my pick of cool stuff for cheap. I've avoided posting Cool poo poo here because I wasn't caught up with this thread. Here's some Cool poo poo. I found it in the circuit boards bin, along with a number of other similar discrete logic boards from the Lockheed Missile Systems Division. I know what they are, but have no clue what they're from. I've written to the research department at the Computer History Museum, so I may find out soonish!
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Nov 29, 2015 00:34
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Pham Nuwen posted:That looks like diode logic so I'd guess it's from the 60s at the latest (nuke tech is always lagging behind the cutting edge while they test and verify the new stuff). Not really a proliferation risk, especially considering what it implements. All the boards have transistors on them. At one point, these things were loving Expensive.
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Geoj posted:Love to see their reaction when they find out there's only a few labs in the entire country that offer movie film processing, and they have to ship their film out and wait 6-8 weeks to get it back. Kodak is going to be selling processing and digital transfers as a bundle with the film.
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Sperglord Firecock posted:I'm getting a new power adapter for the Atari here soon, as when I got robbed a while back, the thieves took almost every power adapter in the house (who even does that honestly?). Meth heads. Gotta get that $0.10 worth of copper.
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davidspackage posted:Working at a store that sells cameras, I hate it when someone comes in cause they lost the usb cable for a camera that's about 4-5 years old, cause I first have to figure out which of the dozen mini-usb variations it can be. those aren't even standard USB cables. every camera made before 4-5 years ago has its own special snowflake cable
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Inco posted:You can run Doom on a printer: You can also run Doom on a former TOP500 supercomputer.
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isn't DGPS equipment reasonably inexpensive at this point?
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KozmoNaut posted:Uh, you may be forgetting one of Sony's biggest successes (another collaboration with Philips). It's the compact disc betacam and digital betacam are still in use in some places
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Samizdata posted:<scans dick and scanner runs out of bulb> Sorry mate but they don't make scanners with enough resolving power to image that
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