Old Tech thread

[Astro Pen]

The windscreen also makes the whole thing meaningless imho.

 

[Vertigo]

The windscreen also makes the whole thing meaningless imho.

I tend to agree, though I guess it is purely a test of human powered speed. Similar arguments could be made about many other things; for example using bottled oxygen to climb Everest (and other high mountains). Using such oxygen reduces the effective height of the mountain by at least a thousand meters or more. Especially as it has been shown by mountaineers such as Rheinhold Messner that with enough training it is possible without such bottled oxygen.

 

[Danny McG]

2001 Argos catalogue, there's some monster prices for the new fangled flat screen TVs

 

[Vertigo]

2001 Argos catalogue, there's some monster prices for the new fangled flat screen TVs

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I believe these weren't even what we now call 'flat screens.' I think they were actually still built around a CRT.

 

[Ursa major]

I think they were actually still built around a CRT.

They were: I bought a 32" one (partly funded by a 21-years service award; otherwise I would never have bought it), to replace an old 21" one and it required two people to carry it. Luckily, I always put the TV in the corner of the room, so it didn't intrude too far into the room.

 

[HareBrain]

I believe these weren't even what we now call 'flat screens.' I think they were actually still built around a CRT.

And I still use one (occasionally), a Sony Trinitron. In 4:3 aspect ratio!

 

[reiver33]

I’m in the process of attempting to equip my 14 year old G62 laptop with Bluetooth...

 

[Pyan]

The 1939 Lehaitre tracked motorcycle.

 

[reiver33]

...so that it can communicate, I believe, with my 1st generation iPad Air.

 

[Astro Pen]

 

[Pyan]

 

[Danny McG]

Giant screen TV with integrated VCR from 1978.
It must have taken an eight man delivery team!
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Amstrad did a similar design in the early 1980s

 

[reiver33]

On the plus side, nobody is going to nick it...

 

[Ursa major]

If they tried, they'd likely slip a disc.

 

[Danny McG]

Back in the 1960s you could get one like this

 

[Dave]

I want to see a The Wild, Wild West steampunk version too using "Vernian" technology.

 

[Harpo]

Amstrad did a similar design in the early 1980s

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Old Tech thread

Not exactly ancient tech but one thing I find curious is that my old 1995 Technics CD player (seperates sterio system) will play CD's that my modern portable CD player won't. The modern system struggles with CD's produced by small time artists (You know the sort you buy at a gig. Yes they still...

www.sffchronicles.com

 

[Pyan]

And umm... imaginative solutions are available.

 

[Danny McG]

As seen three pages ago

Old Tech thread

Not exactly ancient tech but one thing I find curious is that my old 1995 Technics CD player (seperates sterio system) will play CD's that my modern portable CD player won't. The modern system struggles with CD's produced by small time artists (You know the sort you buy at a gig. Yes they still...

www.sffchronicles.com

sh*t happens

 

[Danny McG]

Here we have an advert from 1987 for Samsung microwave ovens, note the outdoor scene where housewives are happily standing holding these monsters - they must have just been empty cases.

And yes, that's actress Lesley Joseph singing, two years before she was in Birds of a Feather.