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Trabant posted:I feel like the case has to be metal, or at least stiff enough (polycarbonate with embedded magnets?) to have satisfying folding action. I picked up one still in its box for $5 from a junk shop 
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Aunt Beth posted:God, I miss NetWare I loving don't. That and Lotus Notes at my workplace for a couple of years was a nightmare
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Grand Prize Winner posted:is TEAC considered a good brand for hifi stuff? Mid level at best.
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rndmnmbr posted:I've seen a poo poo-ton of SB16 cards with IDE controllers onboard. I imagine because back in the day, they came combined with 2x CDROM drives as a drop-in upgrade for computers with only a single IDE channel. Probably in a box with the SB16, CDROM drive, a set of speakers, and cabling, from Creative, sold as a "multimedia experience upgrade" or somesuch. Don't forget the one off CD connectors like Sony, Mitsumi and Panasonic which weren't IDE
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Unperson_47 posted:I watched that entire Techmoan Minidisc roundup and I gotta say the gumstick batteries are really appealing for some reason. I've never heard of them before that video and now I just want to hold one. Those styles of batteries are being repurposed for small quad/drones these days
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 During the lockdowns I have slowly been building up a HIFI setup Picked up this Pioneer PD-F605 25 disc player today. It works well other than the bottom door falls open as the return spring is missing and the VFD is very faint on it. I'll probably pull apart an old 3.5" floppy drive and steal its spring for the return. The VFD I don't know what to do there, might call a local electronics repairer and see if something can be fixed there or it just stays as it is. The amp is a Yamaha A520, brought it from the original owner. I have my mum's old late 60s/early 70s JVC record player, but it needs some work as even though it has a new belt and stylus, it still wants to just skip all the way to the end of the record.
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Wasabi the J posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBJtQjykq_4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBTTowksN28 I only remember this video from its filename - pika.swf
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evobatman posted:I just sold off five full-size tape decks to make some space in the apartment, but my portables aren't going anywhere! Oooh, nice Walkman!
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Trabant posted:Quick question for you all: God I remember those ads as a little kid. At that same little kid time, I found it weird that Holden called their family car after a computer
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Dick Trauma posted:Welcome to the future! Commodore US Marketing Department: Hey, what the gently caress are we supposed to be selling again?
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barbecue at the folks posted:I'm still kinda bitter 30 years later that Amiga died the way it did just because Commodore were so amazingly incompetent at running a business, pissing away any and all advantage they had with a winning product in their hands. (Yeah, Amiga would've died anyways, but still) Most of Commodore's overseas areas like UK, Europe and Australia were strong, it almost seemed like the US arm's management was completely stupid, killing off projects at the last minute or trying to do poo poo like the C65, the answer to no one's question. The success of the C64 was definitely their hubris
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Mr.Radar posted:This video is definitely some of the very best in obsolete and failed technology (optical media camcorders): One of the areas at my workplace had a ton of those mini DVD video cameras, I was surprised someone went ahead with this as an idea
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Visited an aunt today who needed a hand moving some stuff out of her house for hard rubbish collection and spotted this radio in one of the boxes: I couldn't allow this radio to be thrown away, so I took it home and put some AA batteries into it. It worked straight away:  Gave it a clean down, got rid of some of the stains on the speaker grille and it came out nicely:  Going to take the leather case to a local shoe repairer who does leather repair work to put on a new carry strap and see if some of it can be re-stitched: 
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Mescal posted:Wow. Even good leather rots and crumbles EVENTUALLY, right? Thing looks 80 years old The only info I can find about the radio was it was made around 1965.
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I don't think I have ever seen let alone used a computer with an Itanium CPU in it. I remember in the late 90s talking in hushed tones about how this CPU would eventually replace the x86 CPUs with friends. I still lust for a Pentium Pro system though
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I had a group of friends who were briefly into mini disc, but mini disc never really took off in Australia. It doesn't stop me from admiring one of those portable units every so often
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RC and Moon Pie posted:While one side of my brain is kinda grossed out about it, the other is singing detachable penis to the chorus of Personal Jesus. Your own Detachable Penis gently caress that works well
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Humphreys posted:There's a goon here in one of these threads who was in charge of UI around the same time, I wonder if they know each other?
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I don't mind his presentation style, then again I do like Doug Demuro's videos as well, so take it as you will
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Trabant posted:There was an 8-bit micro called the VTech Laser 200 from 1983. Not hugely popular worldwide, but it apparently had a following in some spots. I found it again around 2016 when cleaning out dad's house, still in its original box. Gave it to a friend as I still thought it sucked.
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coldpudding posted:I keep forgetting to scan and upload this silly thing to archive.org. Those Dick Smith System 80s look cool due to the size of them and the laminate wood sides
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Too bad Dick these days has become anti-immigration by using overpopulation as a smoke screen
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Kamrat posted:Any good videos on the vcd format? Youtube's search algorithm is unhelpful as usual Techmoan has this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7PbQTlv5ig Surprised he doesn't have a video specifically for VCD
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Gromit posted:I have tons of old stuff in my shed. Amiga 500, A2000, C64, tons of 3.5 and 5.25 inch floppies. Make sure the RTC battery has been removed from the A2000
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Gromit posted:The computers are in plastic tubs so nothing gets into them. But the A2000 has been down there for nearly 20 years and I just don't want to check the battery. Right now it's in a quantum state of maybe being ok, but I know if I look at it, it will be a horror show. Nice collection, the Leather Goddess game would be worth a fair amount of money these days, especially if it has all the feelies in it
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LifeSunDeath posted:I hope they discharged it first Of course, she goes through a list
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Humphreys posted:New CRD! This is a good one. Did you notice that a couple of those modems (the upright ones) looked a lot like the Banksia modems that were sold in Australia?
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Laws was old in the 1980s, he must be nearly 100 years old
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Late to the show, but did someone say big box computer games and applications? 
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Arivia posted:I see the Duke Nukem Forever collector’s edition, even turned facing in. You can’t hide your shame from me! I blame Axemaniac
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Humphreys posted:I am selling my Roland Cr-5000 and on the same day I acquired a free Roland E-36 so looking at fiddling with keyboards again...this guy does some nice videos Now all you need is an Atari ST
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My parents had a top loading Sony Betamax during the 80s. I don't know if it was due to Australia having a small market, but Beta was still widely supported at video rental stores up to the mid 90s
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monolithburger posted:No, but it reminds me of the Australian video rental chain Video 2000, something I haven't thought about in an obscene amount of time. Every so often the old Movieland jingle plays in my head https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0grzgcd6xE
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GazChap posted:I finally sold it in 2003, although I regret it somewhat as it would be worth a small fortune now. Holy poo poo an 060 accelerator I picked up my A1200 with all the Workbench 3.0 disks, PSU and mouse for AU$200 in 2003. Now the model number stands for how much people sell one in dollars these days
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