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Y’all! I told you I was doing serious archeological research up in here, but did you believe? Well, yeah you probably did, especially if you are of a “certain age” as Jane Austin so politely put it.
This box, y’all, this box measures 11x4”, and weighs about 7 pounds. It is a ten Megabyte external hard drive for the first gen Macintosh. (Which I also have.). On this hard drive I have adobe photoshop, illustrator 88, autocad, FrameMaker, and produced magazines both indie underground, but also internationally distributed CAD publications.
10MB y’all. 10. Megabytes. Ima need an Indiana jones hat and a whip, stat!
#oldtech #WhereDoesSheGetTheseWonderfulToys
All right, search engines aren't helping me answer this all-important question. Even Kagi let me down(!). The question:
What kind of cell phone appears in The Lonely Island's music video "I Threw It on the Ground"? That looks more like an old-school PDA to me than any brand of phone I'm familiar with. Or is that just part of the joke?
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I'm recording a new disco cassette to better enjoy testing and repairing old players 
Yet another B&W picture of Pixel, but also talk about the gadgety camera I used to take the picture
picture a day: jul 2
CJ's Wunderkammer · picture a day: jul 2I know this is similar to yesterday's picture. But A) I think it's a cuter capture of Pixel lying down and being cute at me, and B) I took the photo with an old gadgety camera I have called the DXO One. It came out 10 years ago and is
'This was peak technology': Gen Z is bringing back the BlackBerry - Fast Company https://www.fastcompany.com/91350858/gen-z-is-bringing-back-the-blackberry?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
Fast Company · 'This was peak technology': Gen Z is bringing back the BlackBerryOnce the king of smartphones, the BlackBerry is making a nostalgic comeback as Gen Z embraces retro tech for digital detoxes and vintage vibes.
TV analogique New Old Stock
RMiddleton.Art An entertainment technology that I've never heard of before features prominently in an old movie I'm watching, it's like a telephone jukebox. A unit hangs on a wall with speaker and mouthpiece into which user speaks over wire to an operator at a distant central location where the records are kept and played back. The movie has shown the system in a diner and in a nightclub.
X Marks the Spot, 1942 dir. George Sherman
Found in my old room at the parental mansion: #DeadTech
Betamax, no less! Looks like it was used to record #DoctorWho back in the Long Ago...
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Sun #SWAPFEST is back at #MIT - come early and bring cash, folks start packing up by 1pm. Here's an excellent roundup of May's from @GamesMissed - but check out the #swapfest tag for other great finds.
https://mastodon.social/@GamesMissed/114530333597889092
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MastodonGames That I Missed (@GamesMissed@mastodon.social)Today's #MITFlea / #Swapfest was fantastic! So much cool stuff to see, and I met two people from here (i.e., the Fediverse) while browsing around. Also got 6 StreetPass pings on my Nintendo #3DS while I was there - it's consistently the best place I know of for that, aside from PAX (where I got 56 in two days, but that's a special circumstance).
I will post photos later today.
I'm setting my room on fire at the convention!
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Doing some deep office cleaning today, came across this artifact. I’m assuming this is from ~1989ish.
How does one destroy 75 or so old CDs? I found a box of old backups of photos and files mostly from the early 2000's and have no idea how to destroy them safely.
Info says to break them in a towel or clamp a bunch of them together and drill through them, but was wondering others had actually tried anything better?
Appreciate advice.
The retro computing renaissance: why old tech is new again
https://www.xda-developers.com/the-retro-computing-renaissance-why-old-tech-is-new-again
XDA · The retro computing renaissance: why old tech is new againLocked out of the future, a generation turns to the past—to build, repair, and reclaim the tools to shape what comes next.
Doing some work here today, and needed a hat, so dug through the pile and pulled out this one. Dating myself...
Old tech. Is this stuff of any use to anyone, or is it all just e-waste? I suspect the latter but it seemed worth asking before it goes for recycling. London, UK. Also a box of cables (network and coax mostly)