Comments by "Digital Footballer" (@digitalfootballer9032) on "Technology Connections" channel.

  1. Be kind, please rewind!
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  2. Those prices were outrageous, especially adjusted for inflation, which would be about $4,300 in today's money for a top end unit. Of course the VCR was 1979's equivalent of a UHD 4K curved screen TV, or whatever the latest greatest home entertainment thing is now. The prices did come down over time, but they still were not cheap. I remember my dad buying us one for a "family Christmas present" in 1984. It was $395, but they gave him a deal at the local electronics store because he got 4 friends to all buy one from them at the same time, so they got them for $350. That's $850 in today's money, so not chump change. And here is the best part. The unit is a Magnavox VHS format VCR. It still works, and it is currently hooked up to my basement TV and I still use it! I had several more modern units over the years and they all broke eventually, but the old hunk of steel from 1984 is still going strong. Rewinding a tape does sound like an airplane taking off, but it does indeed work!
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  3. 1942 : Companies working hard to make both bread and Nazis toast.
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  4. The fact that there is someone out there that loves VCRs and old tech as much as you do makes me happy.
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  5. I still use a 13" Trinitron from the late 90's for playing my old video game consoles like NES and Genesis on. Still a solid unit, and a proper way to play the old game systems..they just don't look right on the modern flatscreens.
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  6. I was still using mine in 2000 when I was a senior in college. My housemates mocked it ruthlessly, lol. So I would punish them by printing up my reports bright and early in the morning! And as you know, it sounded like a jackhammer.
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  7. I would guess it is just instant coffee crystals and hot water. It definitely tastes like instant coffee, even out of the modern machines.
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  8. Maybe if you put the pants in there long enough, they will vaporize.
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  9. Hook up a Betamax to it and you have the trifecta of Sony!
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  10. God, I remember being a teen in the early 90's and listening to the local rock station on my boom box with a tape cued up and ready to record. As soon as a song I liked came on, I hit record...free music! I also remember setting my VCR to record "headbanger's ball" on MTV, which was on from like midnight to 2AM on a weeknight. Got some good 80s and 90s heavy metal gold off that. And I still have some of the tapes, and a working VCR from 1984 to boot!
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  11. Thanks for reminding me I have tinnitus.
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  12. Yeah, I totally agree all vehicles should have amber indicators. Definitely safer, and just makes more sense. I like the idiot light on that Honda that tells you when a light has failed. The only other car I saw with that was my mom's old 1995 Volvo. One would think that modern cars could handle 1995 technology. While on the subject, there is a Kia small SUV out there that has the indicators way down on the bumper, and the upper lights at eye level are just brake lights. It drives me nuts everytime I'm behind one.
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  13. First CD I ever owned...Faith No More "The Real Thing" (1989). First tape I ever owned...Phil Collins "No Jacket Required" (1985). First Vinyl lp ever owned, Soundtrack to the "Muppet Movie" (1979). An interesting progression of music styles. And yes, I still own all 3 items and all are still functional.
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  14. You mean it wasn't?
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  15. Didn't there used to be a car that self destructed after you drove it a couple times, called "Yugo"?
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  16. I don't know...it will take electricity to actually show the video. They will request written transcripts and pass them out.
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  17. I think he and Mr. Regular from Regular Car Reviews would get along well with their mutual affection of BROWN 🟤🟤🟤
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  18. Ah, the thermostat. That one thing your dad had built in radar to sense if someone moved it up or down one degree.
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  19. It is generally accepted that "antique" when referring to furniture is 100 years old, for cars 50 years old (25 is "classic"), but I am not really sure on electronics. Curious, because I still have a good bit of functioning 70's and 80's tech. My 1984 Magnavox VHS is my pride and joy.
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  20. I prefer reel-to-reel.
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  21. Agreed. As much as I love the convenience of my mp3s, I still buy hard copies of all my favorite stuff on CD.
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  22. Burned copies on cheap CDRs, like the old green back ones, will degrade over time, yes. I am yet to ever have any commercially manufactured album on CD degrade, and I have had some of my CDs since 1991.
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  23. The dishwasher videos were revolutionary 😂 For real, I have saved a "load" (pun intended) on detergent since he basically proved that generic powder was just as effective as name brand pods that cost way more.
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  24. I remember back in the day when movies took a good year or in some cases several to get to home video. I want to say it was like 5 years from the theatrical release of ET, which I loved as a kid, for it to get to home video, which by that time I was older and had no interest in it. Then when stuff did come out, the video store might have a couple copies, so good luck getting it. Now stuff is on pay per view within weeks of it ending at the box office, and DVD and Blu-ray within a couple months.
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  25. I would bet another reason they did away with the tester on the package was because you could use it for any battery. That's exactly what I did. Bought a pack of more expensive Duracells just to get the tester, then continued buying cheaper ones after. There is some truth to the notion that the best alkaline battery is the cheapest. Duracells seem to maybe be slightly longer lasting but that also may be placebo effect as we have been conditioned with commercials for decades proclaiming that Duracells are the longest lasting.
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  26. I remember back in the day when I was young and poor and me and my buddy rented a third floor walk up in an old poorly insulated brick building. It basically became a furnace in July and August. My dad gave us his old window shaker a/c unit from like 1972. It had two speeds. Off, and Full Blast. So basically, you had the option of furnace, or meat locker in our apartment, lol.
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  27. Got a 1998 myself. Have had it in my non climate controlled garage for years, through freezing winters and humid summers, and it still works great. I use it for playing my old game systems on.
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  28. Still is...heck even my early Sony Bravia LCD TV from the mid 2000's that I keep in the bedroom has picture quality very near the 2 year old LG 4K LED TV I have now in my living room as my main TV. I wanted a Sony for my new main TV but I didn't want to cough up the extra money! The new ones are incredible.
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  29. For me, the Keurig is the equivalent of a microwave dinner. Fast and convenient when you just want a single cup of coffee, but the quality of the coffee they produce isn't great, especially for the high cost of both the machine and the k-cups. I have one in my office and it is nice for both myself and customers to grab a quick cup when wanted, but at home I have a drip unit and I prefer it greatly.
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  30. I can do one better. My first car didn't even have a cassette deck, just AM/FM radio. I bought this little device called a "Sound Sender", which plugged into a cigarette lighter port, and you could tune your radio to a selection of lower, lesser used FM frequencies like 87.9, 88.1, etc, and the other end of the Sound Sender to the headphone jack on your device, and it would play your device over that frequency. I used a portable cassette player. This was groundbreaking in 1992.
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  31. I remember the tester device being built into the packaging like was mentioned in the video. I found that to be superior because you could test any battery in them. I used to buy a pack of Duracells just to get the tester, then buy cheaper ones after I had the tester already. They would wear out after awhile but they were pretty good.
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  32. Retro cool. My grandparents used to have a few of these bad boys when I was a kid.
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  33. If you ever find yourself in Canada and get a blinking green light, don't panic...it just means the same thing as a left green arrow. When the green stops blinking, it is no longer clear to go left as opposing traffic gets their green. These are mostly phased out in favour of the arrows, but there are still some kicking around southern Ontario.
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  34.  @puRpInF3cTioN  I call them "coal cars", because that's essentially what they are since they are powered by the electrical grid that is more often than not powered by burning coal.
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  35. Ah, keyboarding class in the 90's. Did your typewriters have whited out keys on them so you couldn't look? Ours did!
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  36. My 2001 pickup truck had a tape deck in it. I had it until 2013 and still used the tape deck. My wife used to make fun of it. My newer truck of course doesn't have one. I kind of miss it, actually. I have old tapes from the 80's and 90's that were still fun to listen to, poor sound quality and all...with the exception of the few "metal" tapes I have, which actually still sound pretty good.
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  37. More proof that they just don't make stuff like they used to.
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  38. Let's be honest here...you didn't REALLY buy that amber soap dispenser in case of light reactions issues with the fluid you were going to put into it. Okay, maybe that was a factor...but the MAIN reason you bought it is because you liked that it is BROWN 🟤🟤🟤
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  39. My parents had a microwave they bought in like 1984-85. The thing was an absolute tank. In the early 2000's they had a kitchen remodel which included a new microwave mounted above the stove. They sold the old one at a garage sale, it still worked fine. My mom still talks about how ironic it was that the 20 year old microwave was better than the newer one, which died after a couple years. The old one was a Goldstar...known today as LG. I still have my old 1988 Goldstar 13" dial television, and use it for retro gaming. Still works great.
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  40.  @rkwatchauralnautsjediparty7303  You really want your mind blown, think about this. I was talking with my friend one of those all too common "where has the time gone" conversations. Well, as he was born in 1980, I said think about this...we are the same amount forward in time from your birth as the Allies declaring war on Germany was prior to your birth.
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  41. I have one. It's damn near close to the early HD tube TV's in terms of picture quality, and it is of course SD.
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  42. My PhD is just from a state school and I would have never known 45 was less than 55. That Harvard education definitely pays off!
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  43. I absolutely love the soprano sax music in the outro of all the Technology Connections videos. So 80s-early 90s. If that is Kenny G performing that number, even better yet.
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  44. My first car was an '85 Civic. That steering wheel and indicator/wiper stalks bring back memories, mine was exactly like that, less the intermittent wiper selection. I remember that back then whenever anyone else would drive my car they couldn't find the headlights because back then most domestic vehicles had a knob down by your left hand near the door rather than on the wheel. Now having the headlight switch on the wheel is pretty much standard.
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  45. Sweet. I had a word processor in college in the mid 90's. Mine was fancy though, it had a monitor! I really wish I had kept it, it was a gem. I think it was a Brother.
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  46. The dishwasher videos were revolutionary...some of his best work! I was rather partial to the chest freezer video as well.
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  47. Many times when a device that uses multiple batteries stops working, only one or two will be completely dead and the others will still have like half their power or so left. It only takes one bad one for the device to not power up. So I also play battery roulette with them, testing all of them and then swapping out just the dead ones and keeping the half used ones. I will also take the half used ones to use for remotes and other low power drain items. Or occasionally a high drain items like an electronic toy will come with crappy "heavy duty" batteries rather than alkalines, so I'll whip the cheapies in the battery drawer for later usage in a remote where they will function fine.
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  48. Smaller ones still go for a decent buck because people use them for monitors and retro gaming. I have a 13" from the 1990's that I will keep until it dies.
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  49. Better yet, put an ice cube in that one drink!
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  50. Most extension cords will have a rating like general purpose, light duty, medium duty, heavy duty. It corresponds to the gauge of the wire. I don't use anything less than medium duty except to plug something like a clock or something similarly low powered into.
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