Old Tech thread

Also, what's this? A respirator against the pollution and viruses?

And why does he need so much so much high voltage electricity?

Edited_Screenshot_20200428-175748.jpg
 
Dave - my first thought was the outfit is very reminiscent of the Cybermen!

You could argue that instead of antennae, we have Bluetooth headsets which perform a similar role. In many ways, the photo is going down the right way, in concept if not specific appearance.

Onesies / jumpsuits are popular these days too.
 
I got a small portable reel-to-reel tape recorder around 1970 with which I would record songs I liked off the radio, and with which I'd record the audio of syndicated Star Trek broadcasts. The machine looked a little like this one:

1588640668768.png


I would typically hold the microphone up to the sound source.

Once I recorded Donovan's "Rikkui-Tikki-Tavi" off the radio. You might remember this song alluding to Kipling's Jungle Book. In the background I heard the sounds of jungle folk singing.
1588640853286.png

Only actually what I was hearing was sounds from another radio station leaking into the airwaves. I don't think I realized that right away.
 
J Riff said:
I had a real custom home-made tinfoil-lined hat circa 1978. It actually blocked the odd bit of cosmic radiation, which may kill the odd brain cell. Probably saved a few hundred cells I reckon that's how I ended up here.
Click to expand...

I thought the tin foil hat was de riguert for AFTER one has joined and begun posting within this Parish ;)
 
dannymcg said:
Awesomeness from (I think) 1971View attachment 65428
Click to expand...
A little bit later. The front left computer is a 16 bit microprocessor running CP/M which didn't first appear until '74 and probably wouldn't have appeared in a British microprocessor until a little later. I was going to guess about 1982 from the keyboard, but the clincher is the red tag in the top right inviting the reader to see them at COMPEC 15 - 16 November 1984.
 
Here is the program card from my hoover "Keymatic" washing machine. It is about 4 inches across and double sided so 8 washing programs were available. It was a basic motor and microswitched relay system. No semiconductors.
The machine went 30 years ago but I kept the key because I knew that one day I would need it for a sci-fi and fantasy forum thread :)

Keymatic.jpg
 
Vertigo said:
A little bit later. The front left computer is a 16 bit microprocessor running CP/M which didn't first appear until '74 and probably wouldn't have appeared in a British microprocessor until a little later. I was going to guess about 1982 from the keyboard, but the clincher is the red tag in the top right inviting the reader to see them at COMPEC 15 - 16 November 1984.
Click to expand...
Yeah my bad, I was reading the blurb that said the company was established in 1971 and my brain must have locked on to that
 
I'll see your video game and raise you an old Southern standard... True 'pinball' games, not flipper ball (what most folks call pinball):

vintage-bally-bingo-pinball_1_cd54ab016b1841ff22a061bc33082d8f.jpg


K2
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Thread starter Similar threads Forum Replies Date
Robert Zwilling Past Technologies - Tungsten discovered in Tycho Brahe’s alchemy workshop Technology 0
Astro Pen Could a technological society develop without language? Technology 111
Astro Pen 1918 Toy tank remade. Amazing tech Technology 0
Astro Pen Enlarging and shrinking your visible screen area (tech tip) Technology 3
B Looking for- older book, earth is a penal colony and a boy visits medieval Normandy, uses his tech to help the Norman's in battle Book Search 0

Similar threads


Back
Top