I just installed an MO drive in my home computer.
I’d like to get an Elcaset deck; supposedly Elcaset tapes are still sold in Finland.
Although they’re not really obsolete, I dig late 1970s-era CB radios, especially the … ahem, export models of questionable legality. Along the same lines, I’d like to go to some trendy bar, and start chatting on a 1980s era brick analog cell phone.
As soon as I’m employed again, I’m buying a nixie clock.
Streetcars and interurban trains. Sigh.
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*Originally posted by Ranchoth *
**Second on Nixie Tubes.
That has to be one of the coolest things ever! Im building one!!! Thanks Ranchoth,I now have a project for my electronics lab here at work.
…by the by, a couple of people mentioned “Curta calculators,” so I thought I’d post a link to an online “flash” Curta simulator. It weighs in at a whopping 28k.
Now, if I could only figure out how one uses a Curta, I’d be a happy man…
Anybody ever see a PHILIPS DIGITAL COMPACT CASSETTE? (DCC)? It was a digitally-encoded cassette tape…it cameout in the earthy 1990’s-because Philips was convinced that CD’s could never be made skip-free. Philipslost a TON of money on this format…I recall seeing them trying to sell the machines for half price (when it became obvious that the format was a flop). Anyway, somewhere in Hollan, a warehous is fullof them…
[Bob & Ray]
Well grandpa’ was offered half share of the Ford Motor Co. for $500. But he knew that the automobile was nothing more than a plaything of the rich, so he turned 'em down.
[/Bob & Ray]
Two cylinder John Deere tractors. I love the sound of their engines. I’ve owned a couple, both of which I still regret ever selling.
Ranchoth - I’ve figured out basic addition, subtraction, and multiplication using that emulator link you provided. It’s not that difficult and it’s actually rather cool.
Here’s a copy of the Curta Manual that ought to help you out.
Hey…I can imagine a Babbage-type computer (steam-driven clockwork…a difference engine or analytical machine) with banks of these Curtas at its core.
Film. I’m just impressed that it’s even possible to to chemically make color film, especially color negatives, which are bizarre if you think about it. Alas, the art may be lost as the world goes to digital.
Stratified charge engines.
The one successful example I can think of is the original Honda Civic with the CVCC (Controled Vortex Combustion Chamber) motor.