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SYSV Fanfic posted:I take my last dial up modem over there and dial in to BBS that are still up. Or at least I did. My parents got rid of their long distance the last time I used it. How does this work with the phone companies ripping out copper lines? Thread content: the last time I was apartment hunting, I faxed in rental applications using my old USR 56k external connected through a Vonage connection. It took 45 minutes or so per page  .
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Was Dreamcast late enough in the game that there was no difference in the console hardware for NTSC vs PAL? I would think blasting 50Hz to your TV in 1999 would be questionable.
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nudgenudgetilt posted:scsi scanners How are you gonna make your scanner play Ode to Joy if you can't set the SCSI ID to 0?
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They finally rezzed aa.usno.navy.mil, now without perl
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rotor posted:anyone got a recco for a nice double din car stereo with kind of a 90s aesthetic? Not double din, but the sheer ballerness should make up for it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMuLRgnmmgk
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Those sad bluetooths stereos made before A2DP and aptX made the GTA IV experience possible IRL.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Did anyone else follow the EMPEG Mp3 Linux Head Unit at the turn of the millennium, thinking it was going to be The Year of Linux on the I fantasized about replacing my rio volt and tape adapter with one of these
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Hed posted:bragging about constant angular velocity CD readers. the kenwood 72x truex cdrom drive beam splitting just wasn't ready for prime time, the failure rate was spectacular
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gabensraum posted:I had an internal 14.4k modem on a Pentium 75, and when I upgraded to an internal 33.6k card the computer would slow down whenever it connected because it was one of those that used the host cpu (which i didn't understand at the time). I still have an old 56k USR external despite not having POTS service for over a decade. Wishful thinking that it might someday be useful with some dreadfully old and remote something kept it from being pruned.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:but check out how fast that old html website renders though. instant. I'm the guy who's still mad that the library catalog doesn't have the responsiveness that it did when it was through telnet 
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I’m gonna go on record and say that the original Microsoft optical mouse is the greatest mouse ever made. It's killing me because I can't find a picture of it from the top, but  
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Anyone else get a flashback to the rat shack catalog from 1995 after reading that?
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:the reason they continue to be garbage is because everything bluetooth is wrapped up in ridiculous patent nonsense at every turn luv to put  in qualcomm's pocket for the dongle to connect my phone to a real stereo
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 and of course someone cloned it
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FMguru posted:my favorite was toast because it made a loud toaster oven "ding!" noise when it finished burning a disc The DVD Decrypter finish jingle going off loud enough that the neighbors can hear.
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the mini isos on gamecopyworld that would fool the drm into thinking the disc was inserted
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CD authoring software that let you arrange the order of files in the filesystem, and also padding with a huze zero file at the beginning to make sure the data was on the outside of the disc.
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njsykora posted:i have a copy of the ps1 version, the manual is large but it does support the playstation mouse, consoles in the 90s really loved having a mouse, i think you can use it in the ps1 port of final doom as well as all the point and click adventure games that got ported to the ps1 like myst and the five disc version of riven: the sequel to myst Why did I doubt that the emulators would support the playstation mouse?
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EIDE Van Hagar posted:the little fosi audio things and the other little T*xas instruments class d amps are hard to pass up when i see them Care to name the competition for Fosi? I've been looking for a replacement for my dying receiver, and that poo poo looks extremely needs-suiting
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EIDE Van Hagar posted:https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-mini-stereo-amplifier/ Ah. My problem is that I need the optical in and sub pre out, which pretty much limits me to traditional receivers. This is totally The poo poo though, oh my
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Jonny 290 posted:the little 2 pin SPDIF header on motherboards. I actually used this back in the day when i set up a lovely "htpc" across the living room from the stereo, and it passed flawless surround sound with no fiddling. i was amazed There were a few optical drives that had a 2 pin digital out from the drive itself
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The pre-emphasis flag in red book audio doblys in my discman!
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njsykora posted:i had a licensed copy of nero 6 and to this day i have no idea where it came from it was a pack in with retail burners for a hot second, maybe?
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crossquotin' from PYFThe Wurst Poster posted:I attempted to make dialup suck a little less with some ppp multilink. I remember in the bad old days if you couldn't afford or get access to ISDN your only option for more that 56k was to get two modems, two phone lines and two dialup accounts for more speed. Fortunately the retro collectors haven't got into telephony yet so for cheap I got 16 56k modems dialing into a voice gateway that binds the POTS lines onto a T1 for the ultimate in dialup speed.
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