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Forgotten Electronics of the 70s and 80s
Ant writes "This is where you can find photos of those unusual items which somehow missed our keen attention in the 70s and 80s. Be it a specialty product, electronic novelty or an utter boondoggle from a major electronics outfit of the day, we'll dig 'em up and talk about 'em."
That is the page where Nokia N-Gage will be in about 10 years.
the epitome of cool..
especially if worn while carrying a boom box blasting old school Beastie Boys on your shoulder.
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(O.o) This is Bunny. (> <)
It won't be too long before much of the stuff sold there will be listed in "Forgotten Electronics of the 90s and 00s" :)
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My dad is a bit of a tool. On his stereo he has the following components hooked up AND WORKING:
DVD
VHS
Beta
Record Player
CD Player
8 Track
It's all in 5.1 surround sound, so they all sound their best.
I just wonder if there's room for a player piano and a cannister recording device.
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...that this website seems to be hosted on a server with all the power of a TRS-80.
Why is it called COMMON sense when so few people have it?
My dad used to have a huge ancient calculator from the 60's or 70's. I vividly remember it because it had a red alarm-clock style display.
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When you performed an arithmetic operation the whole screen would turn to garbage for a moment, then the answer would be displayed.
I never saw this for myself, but he claims that if you tried to divide by zero the machine would just keep chugging away forever.
I still have a working Kaypro II, and Kaypro16 in the back of the garage. I also found the original SNOKUG library disks with it. ..... Crap I am a geek..
In the 80's I found this cool gizmo at a garage sale, it was called a CB Receiver by "Conic". I attached it to my bicycle handlebars and listened to cursing truckers as I cruised around.
Hands up who went to this webpage and clicked first on the Sexum Adult Digital Watch?
apt-get install deathstar && deathstar alderaan && echo "You're far too trusting"
I probably wouldn't even be a g33k now if it wern't for the vic 20. Ahhhh, programming crappy shooter games in BASIC on my T.V., wouldn't have been 1981 without it!
It reminds me of the old Saturday Night Live fake ad:
"A watch so sophisticated it takes three hands to use it."
Of course I also remember their ad for the triple bladed razor:
"The first blade pulls it out, the second blade pulls it out further, the third blade rips it right out of your face.
Three blades. Why? Because you'll believe anything!"
It seems they were right.
KFG
I feel relieved when someone like Bond looks at a large 4-digit LED display, the odds are it'll stop when it reaches 00:02, and the bomb will be defused and the world will be saved.
I'd prefer it if I got a few of his cast-off girls, though. I hear they're normally in pretty good conditition and with very little wear, except Honor Blackman.
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I feel relieved when someone like Bond looks at a large 4-digit LED display, the odds are it'll stop when it reaches 00:02, and the bomb will be defused and the world will be saved.
Ever watched (massive pun intended) a bond movie? The timer always stops at 0:07.
while sco {
wget -O
}
I had the big brother version, the Tomy Omnibot (not that cheap 2000 version either, but the original). I remember playing with that thing for hours and hours and hours, training it to do stuff (by recording moves on an audio tape). I even remember in grade 5 having to create a little play with 2 of my classmates, and we used the Omnibot... and it was a smash.... Ahhhhh, the memories.... E-Bay, here I come! :)
It's better to burn out than to fade away
/. does wonders for the servers swimming in it's info stream... It can reduce an underpowered server to froth in minutes.
... ohhhh the humanity.
I can almost hear the silent cries for help and see the avg load meter being clipped; I can see the 500 errors, just before the ping replies "host unreachable"
neilio
He's dead, Jim.
If a train station is a place where a train stops, what's a workstation?