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Sonic Dude posted:Ha, no, they definitely pushed that on Mac users too. They were free with the version that came with your OS when you bought a mac, however, you'd have to buy a license if you later upgraded the OS version. And they were totally free in the early days (pre-8.6 or so I think).
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Ah, memories... my first viewing of Wrath of Khan was on one of those (well, a widescreen version) being fed from laserdisk, in 1986 while on holiday - so much technology decadence in one place.
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:Maybe it's the car audio engineer's version of those old demo files you used to get with warez'd doom WADs or whatever that would blast out 8 bit techno when you opened them to announce that you were using a slick release from ~*~*~L33T W33D Kr3w~*~*~ Sort of, they're essentially an 'attract mode' for when the stereo is on display in a showroom.
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WebDog posted:
You kids and your fancy 'standards', we had some more obscure disk formats, like the 2.8" quickdisc:  (used on a variety of obscure Musical instruments (Roland and Akai samplers), Home computers (Triton QD for C64 or ZX Spectrum), and games consoles/wanna-be-computers (Mattel Aquarius & Nintendo NES - as the famicom disk)) Or the even more obscure endless tape loop formats:  (Rotronics 'Wafa' for the 'wafadrive', held 120KB, took about the same amount of time as a tape to load  - this was the exciting future that I owned)e: and because that wafa image doesn't give any scale, have another wafa:  Yes, they really made wafas that were 32KB storage and couldn't hold the contents of your computer's memory, no-one really knows why* * (although we do, the 32KB wafa had a load time of like 15 seconds, so they could claim to be competitive with the diskette standards, even though you couldn't load anything useful in that time) SybilVimes has a new favorite as of 13:06 on May 3, 2014 |
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My Palm was a VIIx... Which was 'ok', but I couldn't afford the $15/mo for the pathetic data service (it was like 150KB/mo or something obscene), so essentially half of it was useless dead weight, and having it meant that it was a sub-par PalmOS device in other areas. I still miss it though, and miss Graffiti whenever I'm writing on my iPad (keep trying to use the carriage return gesture, in particular)
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May 7, 2014 14:35
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atomicthumbs posted:Jesus christ don't recommend people try to type on these things, that's horribly cruel Yeah, that post gave me nightmarish flashbacks to typing on this thing: 
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May 8, 2014 20:02
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Pham Nuwen posted:He might just be British. Hey!, most of us brits pronounce come and cum the same too, we're not all weird like Flunchy
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May 15, 2014 16:45
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Keiya posted:Gopher Ah, but Gopher was not alone, there was also, the wonder know as HyTELNET  It's pretty much the same as gopher, just done differently.
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May 19, 2014 12:19
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Jerry Cotton posted:Death in your own sock - the ultimate capital punishment. It DOES sound like a Sting song name, doesn't it? the song is about being forever alone
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Coffee And Pie posted:I remember having to watch some ancient sex ed video on a 16mm projector in middle school. And I'm not even that old, this was like in the early 00s. I remember watching an Uncle's porn films on super-8, but that was pretty old - 1980s or so. Still, there's just something about super-8 porn that has a more natural feel, maybe it's the darkened room 
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Antifreeze Head posted:Quote of the video: "Most PCs do not have three floppy disk drives even though I think it's a necessity today" Quite a few motherboards at that time had support for more than 2, I had 3 drives on my PC for a while (in '89), a combo 5.25+3.5 drive and a second 5.25 drive for software/games that needed 2 drives but were on 5.25 disks e: A combo drive like this:  it was, of course, poo poo, because it was really cheap and nasty, so a year or so later when I upgraded to a 386 motherboard I dropped it in favour of 2 3.5" drives (I didn't get my first HDD until '92 because until IDE became mainstream HDDs were too expensive or unreliable (ST506 was the cheapest, but often really crap, SCSI and ESDI were just too expensive) SybilVimes has a new favorite as of 16:22 on Jun 12, 2014 |
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Lowen SoDium posted:GFWL is actually still running. The GFWL store was closed some time last year, so you can't buy new games directly from MS or DLC (not that anyone every bought from there). The GFWL match making and copy protection service was rumored to be ending at the end of those month and a LOT of big titles have been updated to use Steamworks instead, but MS has stated that it's not going way. The authentication servers aren't, but the GFWL service itself most definitely does close down this month, so if a game doesn't have an offline profile option you're probably going to be screwed.
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There were a lot of 'weird' tape deck mechanisms near the end of cassette's golden era, for example, horizontal trays:  And pioneer even had tape changers, like so:  I think the general trend was to try and make cassettes seem as much like CD as possible, to try and make it look less 'antiquated' than it was. OTOH, I just yesterday saw an ad for Type IV cassettes for 44p each, so I guess cassette isn't totally dead, yet.
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