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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
I'm recording a new disco cassette to better enjoy testing and repairing old players 
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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#BostonWeekend 26/x
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
#Boston #massachusetts #BostonGeek #CambridgeMA #Cambridge #oldTech #retrocomputing #retro #
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.
Modulateur des années 50
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.
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)
Except that bastard always reverses the charges.
Have you cleaned your mouse this year?
#Vintage #OldTech #OldTechnology #BackInMyDay.
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Vintage Obsession
I've been in love with this one for months, years, decades. Perhaps one day, when the moons align, I'll grab four Pentium Pro "Black Edition" CPUs and as much RAM as its mezzanine cards can handle, and ... well, you know how the rest of the vintage hardware story goes. Beautiful. The only concern is, "wtf is it doing on the EMI static-charged carpet for the photos?"
Too late for #PalmSunday, but good to see that my old #TungstenTX works fine :-) 20 years ago, before iPhone and Android were invented, that was peak technology. #OldTech #PalmInc #PalmOS
Somehow, I don't think so.
Yesterday I knew about #uxn and I knew some other things were plausible with roms and such... now I am drawing on a "me built" rooted sdcarded homebrewed nintendo #3dsxl because I can!
This is the new thing I needed to tinker with. LOL
now to figure out how to post files FROM the 3ds over a network... shirly the #curl library could be of service... hmm. #smolweb #exploring #oldtech
thanks #fediverse
I need to learn C now. #programming
J'ai trouvé un vieux briquet mural... électrique ! 
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Czy ktoś wie jak dorobić do czegoś takiego antenę? Oznaczam taktycznie @lukaso666 
Well, maybe I like old electronic stuff 
Looking for some more advanced techies to help me out here. I was browsing the files of old abandonware (as one does) and came across the .zym file format in a game called Gubble 2. Does anyone have any idea what this file format is? Is it something proprietary by the gubble devs? Something that just isn't used anymore? The only thing google brought up regarding .zym was some mods for quake.