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Palpatine MD: Jan 31, 2012; Passionate about your involuntary euthanasia.

leidend posted:

Listened to it in the car with the old cassette adapter. These would break every few months

Couldn't use those fm adapters because there isn't a single "empty" radio station where I live.

When I bought my latest car, an aux port was a must.

My car(stereo) is stuck in technological limbo. It's too new to have a cassette deck, but it's too old for an AUX port. Couple that with living in an area where there's no clear FM bands available for a transmitter, and I'm consigned to Compact Discs in my car :p

I've three of these with me every time I drive:

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Palpatine MD: Jan 31, 2012; Passionate about your involuntary euthanasia.

I loved the insane robotic sounds my 3-disc changer stereo made when switching between trays. I kept The Rock movie soundtrack in tray 3 for the better half of the 90's. Friend of mine still has a 5-disk changer which he still uses, and we give him poo poo for the thing all the time. No idea 51-changers existed, holy poo poo.

# ¿ Oct 10, 2012 22:05

Palpatine MD: Jan 31, 2012; Passionate about your involuntary euthanasia.

I was visiting a technology museum recently and they had a microfiche (Microform) machine on display. How commonly is that stuff still used today?

# ¿ Nov 27, 2012 04:16

Palpatine MD: Jan 31, 2012; Passionate about your involuntary euthanasia.

The fountain pen discussion made me look up the pens we were issued in elementary school, which was the Lamy ABC:

http://www.amazon.com/Lamy-ABC-Fountain-Blue-Right/dp/B000FA5EII

It's a hell of a lot more expensive then I would have thought, and it explains why school never replaced mine even though I chewed the poo poo out of it.

# ¿ Jan 21, 2013 13:57

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