Comments by "Helium Road" (@RCAvhstape) on "Technology Connections" channel.

  1. "Edison kept locking himself down into proprietary formats..." So he was the Apple Computer of his day.
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  2. The accidental triggers are happy little accidents, though, so it's fine.
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  3. The funny thing is that we used to have actual typing classes in school until at least the early 90s. In the military in the 1980s and early 90s, if you knew how to type you kept it to yourself because you'd get stuck filling out paperwork instead of doing whatever your job was supposed to be. The average person did not know how to type until suddenly everyone had a computer in their house.
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  4. They weren't Millennials, they were Centennials...or...something
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  5. I want to see a Technology Connections / LGR Tech Tales collab!
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  6. My theory about Groundhog Day is that they did it that way just to piss you off. I mean you, personally.
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  7.  @rev_dude  Staggered QWERTY is bad for who? Once you get used to it you can type redonkulously fast. Change it and suddenly NOBODY knows how to type anymore. This is example of when standards are good.
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  8. Nah, they used Super 8 film.
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  9. You had SIX phones in your house? When I was little having more than one was a luxury. Kids who got their own phones were the cool rich kids.
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  10. "Dusting your computer junk" Archer: phrasing!
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  11. You know, that cassette bluetooth adaptor actually makes having a car with a cassette player more useful than a more recent car with a CD player. If your car has a CD player you have to buy one of those bluetooth FM transmitter things, which kinda work but are also a pain in the rear, especially when you drive to a new city and have to find a new blank frequency.
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  12. Who here does not subscribe to 8-bit and Techmoan? The internet is a big place, but sometimes it feels so small.
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  13. You just put a ceiling fan under the table and use its thrust to hold the table up.
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  14. A while back I saw an absolutely beautiful Victrola machine in an antique shop. I spent some time dithering about whether it would be worth the money and where I would put it in my living room, but before I could act the shop burned to the ground. :-(
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  15. I got a burned a few times by processing labs making assumptions like that, and one even screwed up my negatives by letting an idiot with scissors get a little too excited. When I take film to a lab now, I ask them not to cut the rolls and just do it myself on a light table later. Most of the time if it's black and white I just process it all myself, so I don't have to worry about some pothead screwing up a roll of film I shot on an expensive trip across the country.
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  16. Whoa! That's heavy, Doc.
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  17. "Ya ever wonder why?"
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  18. Somewhere I have a photo book written by a guy who turned his VW Microbus van into a giant camera obscura by lightproofing the interior and putting a pinhole on one side of the van. Basically a giant camera on wheels. He'd drive it to a location and park it with the pinhole side facing the subject, pin a large sheet of photo paper on the back wall, and open the pinhole to expose it.
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  19. In reality heating and air conditioning both heat the whole neighborhood by burning energy. Whether your energy source is coal, gas, nuclear fission, or even someday nuclear fusion, there is waste heat generated all along the circuit starting at the generating plant. It's a problem for the future if fusion becomes cheap and easy someday, because while pollution, carbon output, and cost will drop immensely, civilization demand will go up and our main problem becomes dealing with waste heat. Arthur C. Clarke mentions this in 3001: Final Odyssey novel, but he doesn't say how the problem was overcome, presumably because he had no idea.
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  20. Don't sweat it, you're doing fine. I briefly studied this stuff in college and built a DAC as part of a project (the details of which are now very hazy), and what you're saying rings a bell, if simplified.
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  21. If some talented rando can make the despecialized edition in his spare time surely Disney could do it. They'd make a mint selling those.
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  22. I did the opposite. Got into photography in the early days of digital, took a class on dark room printing and B/W film, and pretty much gave up digital after that, aside from my smart phone. I spend my day in front of a computer. Doing my hobby on a computer is not cool. Plus, the older antique film cameras will always be cooler than any digital stuff, and don't go obsolete with the next firmware drop.
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  23. As an amateur chemical photographer and printmaker I luurrv these photography vids, and this one might be the coolest yet. Not only is it a process I knew nothing about but those photos are achingly beautiful! Please do more of these kinds retro tech videos.
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  24. Innovation in a microwave oven? I'd just be happy if they would give the clock a memory of some sort so that I don't have to reset it when the power goes out for 2 minutes.
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  25. That's because outside of America you are all using metric fan switches.
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  26. Everything is racist to these overly sensitive brainwashed dumbasses these days. Fun is racist. Be moar serious!
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  27. Can't you fix that by drinking more beer, resulting in more flushes?
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  28. The leprechaun tells me to burn things!
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  29. I have a friend who got a ticket for not using a signal even when nobody else was around. So depending on the state, your instructor was totally wrong.
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  30. Let's see your well-researched and well-made video response.
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  31. Audiofools. I talked to a guy once who bought a super expensive snake oil power cable for his stereo system and swore he could tell the difference. SMDH
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  32.  @OfficialFedHater  It's a perfectly cromulent word.
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  33. Tektronix scopes are great. I was a tech years ago and the rule was generally, "Tektronix for o-scopes, Simpson for meters, and Hewlett Packard for all other test equipment." Sadly, I don't think HP makes test equipment anymore; they are known for consumer computers now but until the 90s HP made really high end test gear. At least Tektronix is still around, last I heard.
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  34. Google literally censors things based on politics now. And sooner or later, everything relates to politics.
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  35.  @seneca983  Eye of the beholder. Personally I much prefer old industrial buildings to a bunch of fugly modern apartment buildings or subdivisions of McMansions.
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  36. Great post.
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  37. If it were China it would say, "adds heavy metal waste to product"
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  38. Solution: change the name of the SI unit of time from the "second" to the "third". Rewrite and republish all textbooks and software references. Start calling it the third hand. Problem solved.
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  39.  @tjampman  So you're saying you got it on the third second?
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  40.  @jaredliv  Somehow a bunch of engineers once figured out how to fly to the moon without googling "how to build a Saturn V". Stinking amazing, huh.
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  41.  @DavidChipman  They're smart, they'd figure it out.
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  42.  @GeneralBolas  Since the sequels suck even worse than the prequels, it'll be a breath of fresh air. Who'd have thunk Disney could fuck up Star Wars even worse than Lucas already did.
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  43. I thought real hipsters rip all their records to mp3 and then brag about they are listening to "vinyl"?
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  44.  @jackwilson5542  Firmware wasn't even the real reason, anyway, it was the hardware itself going obsolete so fast in the mid-2000's. It's more stable now but it doesn't matter. At this point I no longer care. Digital photography holds zero interest for me. If chemical photography went away, I would just stop doing photography. You're trying to be clever when you know exactly what I meant all along.
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  45.  @JohnDlugosz  Okay, now I want to see one in a microwave oven...
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  46. It's as bad as Dr. Who's timey wimey stuff.
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  47.  @jaredliv  I don't know, why don't you google that?
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  48. The mechanical devices are complicated, but they can be repaired by a competent man, which means they can last almost forever, while most aging electronics will have parts that can't be replaced or repaired due to being out of production. This is especially true with digital cameras, which are by nature packed with unrepairable chips; digital cameras become obsolete in a fairly short period of time, while a well-cared for mechanical film camera can last virtually forever. My oldest camera is from the 1930s and still functions perfectly well.
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  49. I've been doing dark room printing for about 15 years or so, and this video is as good a primer as one could ask for. Your simple explanations of the chemistry, safe lamp, and so on, are very much appreciated. I will recommend this to my friends, especially the n00bs in the dark room for whom this stuff isn't intuitive yet. Excellent work!
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  50.  @sleeptyper  "Ford" is an acronym for "F'd over rebuilt Dodge". MOPAR means "my old Plymouth ain't running". Why do the British drink warm beer? Because their auto makers also make refrigerators. I'll be here all week!
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  51. If you have a low-pass filter on the output the "stairs" get smoothed almost completely away. Back in college I built a DAC from Radio Shack parts. I don't remember all the details, but I remember that.
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  52.  @suprememasteroftheuniverse  You're a rude, uncivil person. I bet you're fun at parties.
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  53. My hat's off to software guys. Especially if you have to maintain legacy code that was written by some guy years ago and you have to decipher his thinking. I feel lucky just to be a normal end user who has to write some simple stuff in Matlab or VBA once in a while.
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  54.  @CubicApocalypse128  Voting Democrat for starters ;-)
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  55. Try not to be shocked.
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  56.  @DavidChipman  Umm, yeah, that's kind of the point.
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  57. Who knew there was so much engineering in a simple window. Compare that with the simple glass in an antique window.
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  58. Kodak is not a camera company, though, it was primarily a film manufacturer, making tons of money off of mass produced film. So switching away from film would've been a difficult transition for the company no matter what. And as another reply said: digital at the time was impractical for consumer use, basically too far ahead of its time.
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  59. I studied this stuff in college, and I must say this a great explanation of it, your motion diagrams regarding the Fourier series and aliasing were very informative. I've never gotten into the habit of arguing with audiophiles; it's rather like arguing with flat earthers or other such nuts who refuse to listen to logic, but it's good to be able to explain this stuff to those who are willing.
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  60. A E S T H E T I C
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  61.  @SMGJohn  No one who sticks up for communism can be taken seriously. If the Lada and the Trabant aren't evidence enough, the dozens of millions of dead communist citizens murdered by their own governments ought to be enough argument against it; if this doesn't work for you then we can only conclude you are evil.
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  62. +1 for finding a way to use "force my lute" in a sentence.
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  63.  @prairiepanda  If it's like where I live, he got it from a box of Captain Crunch cereal.
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  64. Disposable movies? Sure. Star Wars Episodes 1, 2, 3, 7, and 8 for starters.
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  65.  @TechnologyConnections  Yeah, that's one of those "Let's go outside and try this in the driveway" kind of things.
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  66. "More art than science...that's gonna cause me some grief" --- Ansel Adams was famous for collecting lots of data and reducing his shooting, development, and printing work to a "science" which, if you follow his instructions, should always produce a perfect image. His work speaks for itself; his philosophy was not to try to make "art" the way a painter would, but to use the camera to do what no painter can: produce pin sharp images. Hence his school of photography was known as the "f/64 Club". Adams books are good texts to study to figure out the "best" way to do it, and then you are armed with the knowledge to start mucking with chemicals and times to create something more artistic and personal, figuring which of Adams' rules to break and which ones to follow.
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  67.  @TechnologyConnections  "Radiated audio" is what you get from a speaker. A radio transmitter is actually generating electromagnetic radiation, modulated by some sort of intelligence. That intelligence is usually audio, in the case of your favorite music station or your walkie talkie, but it can also be data. But what comes out of, or gets picked up by, an antenna is radiation. It's non-ionizing radiation, so it won't hurt you, despite the word "radiation" which scares people.
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  68.  @dielaughing73  Back in the 70s my parents bought a Chevy Impala which happened to have an oil pan heater, something meant for northern market but somehow wound up at my dad's dealer. You used an extension cord to warm up the oil pan in extreme cold so that the engine would start. I don't know if they still offer that on any vehicles these days, and of course, we didn't live far enough north to ever use it as far as I recall. Knowing my dad, he probably plugged it in at least once just out of curiosity.
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  69. I played it a few times in the arcades back in the day. I always thought it was overrated. More fun to watch than play.
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  70.  @jackwilson5542  You're right, because I don't use a digital camera anymore.
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  71. engineerguy is pretty good, too. Doesn't make as many videos these days, but dropped one yesterday.
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  72.  @left4twenty  My older mechanical cameras don't have any light sensors, and if you know what you're doing you can estimate light levels based on experience. Maybe your cute little emoji will help.
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  73.  @left4twenty  No worries. To answer your question, there are ways to do photochemistry from chemicals available at drug stores and hardware shops, and a few different books to tell you how to do it. There were no commercial chemicals available in the 1840s when photography was invented, of course. The harder thing is what to do if they quit making film stock. At that point, you can go to a large format camera and make your own sensitized medium, again 1840s style. I have built my own 4" x 5" camera just to explore primitive photography.
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  74. The Max Headroom reference is even more relevant, since the 1980s TV show Max Headroom was all about Japanese megacorps jockeying for position over who gets to rule the cyberpunk world of tomorrow (which is actually about now, I think). You know, like Sony. G-g-g-groovy!
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  75.  @harambo88  unga bunga dude
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  76. I see my lame attempt at a pun has failed to make contact.
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  77.  @will9357  What Will 93 said. Film isn't going away completely; but it had to struggle with going from the professional mass-production market to the art photography market. It's gotten a bit more expensive and with the shutdown of so many labs you have to have your own dark room in many cases, but it's doable if you're into it.
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  78. Great video, I always wondered how Dolby worked. More importantly, I always wondered if Thomas Dolby was related in some way...
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  79.  @staalman1226  No, just something that makes sense at the concept level. Isaac Arthur's futurist youtube channel talks about this a lot as well. I just think it's interesting conversation.
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  80.  @staalman1226  I'm not trying to "prove" anything. I just think it's interesting.
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  81.  @JH-pt6ih  I don't understand why some people have to shit on anyone who likes doing things the old way. We live in a golden age. Want to do digital? Go for it. Like film? have at it.
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  82. Once I was with a friend outside at night and I pointed out the moon and the planet Venus, and then I told him where the sun would be below the horizon. When he asked me how I figured that out I went into a long explanation of the plane of the ecliptic and also how you can find the sun by looking at the phase of the moon etc.
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  83. 1:28 and thus the CD passed into the dreamy realm of Vaporwave and became known as the C O M P A C T D I S C
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  84. It's also how the Moties were first introduced to the Empire of Man.
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  85. I'm wondering how the movie sound effect compares to the sound of an old school arc light coming on.
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  86. Or his helpful cousin, Technology Suggestions.
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  87.  @left4twenty  Now you're just being silly.
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  88.  @ClickItYT  Hopefully this will energize my pun game and light up the thread.
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  89. The sound of an early 70s Chevy turn signal is strangely nostalgic to me, as is the smell of pre-catalytic convertor car exhaust whenever a classic car passes by.
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  90. I was talking to someone about how much I love my vinyl collection. He said, "I love vinyl, too. It just sounds better than digital!". I told I liked vinyl because of the cover art and cool old equipment, but I'm an engineer and CDs, properly mastered, will always beat vinyl for reproduced sound. He got all aggro with me and told me I didn't know what I was talking about. Whatevs.
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  91. 19:09 I have a bad feeling that that dog is probably dead and taxidermized, since I can't imagine a dog well-trained enough to sit still for a slow speed photograph. Even with a high speed modern film or digital it's hard to take photos of pets.
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  92. Ray Roulstone  How do pelicans know how to push buttons? Why don't they just fly over the road?
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  93. I want my next car's turn signal to sound like Owen Wilson saying "wow".
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  94. If you have a pitcher full of fixer in a dark room that you are using over and over, using a fixer after developing but before fixing helps extend the life of the fixer. Or so I've been told.
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  95. 10:45 Atari Night Driver, anyone?
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  96.  @marcse7en  Well I use the clock to TELL TIME! TRY IT SOMETIME, MAYBE YOU WON"T BE LATE FOR CLASSES ON HOW TO USE THE CAPS KEY!
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  97. 3:33 a surprising number of younger people probably won't get this reference
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  98.  @allanrichardson1468  Guitar amplifier builders never stopped using tubes, and they all still use them today.
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  99. Will the next video involve painting Christmas lights and mounting them on a ceiling fan?
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  100. Italian restaurants are almost as scary as walking through a peach orchard. You just never know what's gonna happen, right?
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  101. I like your picture tube screen shirt.
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  102.  @staalman1226  No biggie
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  103.  @gormster  Some people are just born to troll.
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  104. I thought the color was called "Laurel"
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  105. I have them on VHS. Just need to make sure my VCR never breaks down...
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  106. The Hoover Dam is natural. If you're a beaver who studies humans and how they behave.
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  107. @Phillip Banes Heck I even know a few people who shoot wet plate large format, 1860s style. For a lot of people, the difference between film and digital is like the difference between making a chair in a woodshop and just buying one at Ikea.
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  108. @Phillip Banes You can beat painting with photography, and yet people still paint. What's your point?
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  109.  @dougbrowning82  As recently as a few years ago Walgreen pharmacies still did one-hour.
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  110.  @princejellyfish3945  None of that crap you bring up makes a good excuse for all the murders committed by Stalin, Mao, or Hitler, who were all of the same stripe.
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  111.  @racer927  So every three days you are going to reply to my message now, defending evil?
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  112. I will never forget that old lady in the commercial angrily clapping off her TV and lights. When I was little I was afraid of her because she reminded me of the mean old lady next door who used to yell at us every time a ball would stray into her yard. I'll bet she had a Clapper in her house somewhere.
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  113.  @lajya01  And deliberately so. Getting a simple repair done to your car requires you to pay a small fortune in labor and parts.
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  114. There are people shooting daguerreotypes today, but with a full lab setup for safety. A shame mercury is so toxic; those are the most beautiful of all photo processes.
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  115. I was eating greasy porkchops from a dirty ashtray when this video came on. Also a banana dipped in pickle juice. Get well soon, dude!
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  116. Apologizing on the Internet is a sign of weakness!
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  117. Alliteration always amazes any and all audiences. Also, toasters aren't for toast; they're for English muffins.
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  118. On another note, Mary Tyler Moore was pretty hot back in her day.
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  119. As a former electronics tech I find the switch symbols in that schematic to be highly confusing since they look like capacitor symbols.
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  120.  @johnclement5903  Interesting.
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  121. 2:23 I find that clip of the off-center record to be terribly disturbing...
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  122. "People are stupid" People are also elitist. Go figure.
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  123. Bose Companion 2 Series II Multimedia Speaker System. 70 bucks on Amazon. Small footprint, great sound, no screwing around with gluing foam onto speaker cones or any of that. I know that bargain hunting and tinkering may be part of the fun, but if you just want a good set of bookshelf speakers that sound good get yourself a pair of these.
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  124. So glad I don't drink coffee. LOL @ coffee drinkers.
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  125. I find it weird that so many people today don't know about record changers. I grew up with my dad's 1960s era Garrard record changer, which I still use today. It has that fake wood paneling like the one in this video, so it's very 60s style. My dad eventually replaced it in the 80s with a very sleek modern Technics turntable (which I also still have), and so the whole time I was in high school I played all my records on the Garrard. Over time, as the Garrard sat in storage, the grease in the mechanism would get hardened and the automatic functions would stop working, but I got it fixed and it all works fine now. If I stack more than about 3 records on it it starts to have issues, and it works better with older lightweight records then these newer heavier ones they sell today. But it's great, I stack up a few records while I sit down to read, and if I fall asleep on the couch or whatever then it shuts itself off when it's finished. Also, what you said about audiophiles. I have met some truly dumb people over time, and one of them was an audiophile who told me he had paid hundreds of dollars for a special power cable and that he could hear the difference. Okay. No point in arguing with that guy. As for damage to records, my records from the 80s are doing just fine. The damage they do have is from dirt and scratching. Also, storing them horizontally for long periods of time will result in some warping. But the Garrard record changer has never hurt them and with a good amplifier and speakers (and a good stylus) it sounds great.
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  126. I realize this is harder for some younger people to believe, but there was once a time when people in public would make a slight effort to avoid being a potty mouth in the presence of children. At least where I grew up this was true. Sometime around when smoking started getting banned on jetliners people seemed to lose their inhibitions regarding foul language, and now we get people walking around Chucky Cheese cursing into their phones or at each other lol.
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  127. "If you are painting them on the strand, pro tip..." lol nobody else is doing this, dude. Still, great video. And I agree, the old filament bulbs are awesome and I miss them, fire hazard and all.
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  128. I've always loved Sony's hardware products, especially back in the 80s Sony electronics was good stuff and still ain't half bad today. But they're attitude towards IP is awful and only seems to get worse as time goes on, especially in the entertainment media side of things. So I'll still buy their headphones and stuff but I have to hold my nose a little bit as I do it.
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  129.  @janMelantu  Yes, "their lucrative film business" was their main line of business, not cameras.
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  130. Just a guess, but maybe pro gear is meant to look "business like", similar to the beige computers of the time, and the colorful buttons allowed them to be seen better in the dim light of a studio control room perhaps.
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  131. IIRC Olympus made a digital version of the Pen a few years ago, since the old design was so cool and popular. Concerning half frames, the Diana Mini 35mm plastic camera has been out for over ten years and it has switchable half or full frame option.
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  132.  @Hdtjdjbszh  I think you're actually German, if you were British you'd have a better sense of humor! ;-)
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  133. Disney DVD is like Disney Star Wars: it kind of looks the same, but it really isn't.
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  134. Yes, we all like this video, please revisit the topic later on. Your videos about how tech, especially old tech, works are what brought me to your channel in the first place. I used a mechanical typewriter for school papers growing up, and when my dad got an Olivetti electronic typewriter in the 80s it was an amazing machine at the time. I have a 90s-era typewriter I rescued from destruction.
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  135. I feel like Goodfellas is a pretty extreme test of such a device.
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  136. Where do you get new flash bulbs?
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  137.  @positivelynegative9149  Oh, you mean the place next to Radio Shack, across the street from the Howard Johnsons, by the Bell Telephone booth.
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  138. If you had told me that I'd watch an hour and a half worth of video footage on how to use a common kitchen appliance I'd have never believed it.
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  139. My dad used to think that using the machine instead of hand washing was a sign of laziness. He was right, and I still use my machine.
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  140. @Technology Connections Did you see the Apollo 11 film that was released to theaters earlier this year? They had film clips from 1969 that looked like they were shot yesterday. Amazing color and clarity, it was like watching an episode of Mad Men where they are shooting a period piece.
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  141. I open my cans the way I open my mind: with a power drill!
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  142. I have never cared or thought about syncing up my turn signals with other cars. Thanks for providing me with something new to obsess over.
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  143. I think the problem with people not turning on their lights is ironically because of all these efforts to make cars "safer". Automatic lights make us complacent and we expect all cars to have them. Then there's the fact that a new car instrument panel looks like a giant smartphone display instead of, you know, an instrument panel. If you get into one of these cars at night in a well-lit parking lot and drive out onto a well-lit street it's very easy to notice that your lights aren't on. And when the other cars flash your lights at you now you have to scramble to find the damn switch that turns them on. Is there even a switch? Or is it on this stupid ass touch pad thing that's blinding me on the dashboard? If you rent a newer car this can easily happen. That's not to say there aren't idiots out there who just don't pay attention to what they're doing or weren't trained properly. Younger drivers answer me this question: did your mom or dad teach you that the left lane is for PASSING, not cruising? And did they teach you that when someone flashes their lights at you, that it means maybe your headlights are off? Because where I live I swear it's like people just get their license from a box of Cracker Jacks or something. Now get off my lawn. You know where the lawn edge is, there are retroreflectors along the edge.
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  144. I'm also a fan of mechanical bells, and mechanical devices in general, a bit of a minor steampunk vibe makes things a bit more comfortable to live around. I hope you do more videos on subjects like this. I love the old radio/TV/music player tech, but I also love stuff like this. Used to be a TV show called Secret Life of Machines I watched religiously; check out the episodes here on youtube, they are still awesome though they are a good 25 years old now.
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  145. Backup cameras and driving lights is all insurance company safety nazi bullshit. If you can't back a car up without a camera you have no business being behind the wheel.
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  146. I was gonna say the elevators on aircraft carriers are a lot bigger and stronger but I guess their primary function is lifting heavy airplanes as well as Marines so...
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  147. Did he say "electric shower"? What the heck is THAT?
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  148. I didn't need someone to tell me how to do it on our office door; I just figured it out myself. Funny this video drops a few days after I did that.
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  149. My truck has replaceable light bulbs that you access from inside the hood. Light goes out, costs me a few bucks to fix. The hell with those stupid multiple hundred dollar replacement units.
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  150. "Smart lightbulbs" for god's sake, can we just stop with all the smart phone and internet crap? I just want a light that switches on when I throw the switch. Keep it simple, please.
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  151. You're not supposed to shake them.
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  152. It's not just jet fuel, it's also rocket fuel. The Atlas, Saturn, and Falcon rockets all use it.
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  153. Hey TC, how about a link to that dimmer tape you put over that display, or at least a product name to look up?
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  154.  @Altoclarinets  lol like Debbie Downer
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  155. 2:25 nice callout to Grady
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  156. 12:54 the sound of that thing spinning up earned a thumbs-up, as does the fact that even though I remember these things growing up, I never knew they were analog!
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  157. Once again I urge viewers of this video to look up the radio episode of Secret Life of Machines. I wish Tim and Rex could be guests on Technology Connections.
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  158. I don't why but that shot of the K-mart logo on the box fan brought a wave of nostalgia over me just for a second.
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  159. I shoot film and I'm going to love this series! I use an old twin lens reflex camera that has a built-in selenium light meter which is light-powered, so I never need batteries to get a good light reading as long as I'm in daylight. In darker areas, with black and white film, you just use a tripod and overexpose like crazy. Most black and white film is pretty forgiving on exposure.
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  160. Oh, so THAT's what LightScribe is? I had an HP laptop for years with this LightScribe crap on it and never figured out what it was supposed to be. The sad fact f the modern age is that nobody documents anything anymore, nothing comes with an instruction manual, your shiny new computer is packed with bloatware and other features that may actually be useful if you knew what they are for or that they even exist. That laptop was a good computer, I used it for like 8 or 9 years and drove it into the ground. But the only thing I knew about that weird LightScribe thing was that you apparently had to buy some special disks for it. Since my local Radio Shack didn't have them I never bothered.
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  161. Also, nice subtle dig on Apple there for removing features and calling it "improvement". As with documentation, being lazy and cheap is marketed as "innovation".
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  162.  @tookitogo  Nah, that's called "Yanny"
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  163. Baird looks like a young Professor Farnsworth from Futurama. Which is interesting, because Professor Farnsworth is supposed to be a descendant of the real life Philo Farnsworth, who was a television pioneer.
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  164. RCA: the original patent troll
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  165. @Phillip Banes I know quite a few people who shoot large format, including myself, and 4"x5" sheet film is readily available. Other formats are also available, but less so. Large format is great because it is 100% manual and setting up a shot can take several minutes; everything is hands-on from start to finish.
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  166. @Phillip Banes Keep on posting, you might win an argument on the internet.
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  167. "Physicists hate this" lol nice one
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  168.  Joe Average  It's all the same. Communism = socialism = Stalinism = fascism = dictators in different flavors who think they know how to build a better tomorrow by forcing you to do things against your will. Don't try to talk your way out of the fact that Cuba is an ass backwards country, Venezuela is wrecked, and the Soviet Union, Cambodia, and China, murdered untold millions of their own people for your stupid pipe dream where people magically sing kumbaya and get free stuff.
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  169.  @racer927  You were supposed to wait another three days.
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  170. Almost as dark as the Zune's future.
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  171. I really hate the yellow color of these lamps. It's sickly. But the blueish white LED lights can be even worse. Maybe I should move to the country where you can actually sleep at night under stars.
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  172. I want to live in a world full of English units and blue LEDs. Also, red turn signals, only red.
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  173. My first printer was a Panasonic KX-P4410 that I bought new in 1993. It was a pseudo-clone of an HP II laser printer. That thing was awesome, super reliable and sharp. It suffered from lack of memory, so it was really mostly for text documents only, but it would print a really classy-looking document. Also, it had only a serial cable jack for an interface, it was way before USB or wireless. One day a few years ago I finally got rid of it since it was just too obsolete, but I felt horrible; it was still perfectly functional and had toner in it, even after abusing it all through college and moving several times. I am definitely a fan of a good laser printer. And of what Panasonic used to be back in the day.
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  174. Great video. Not far from me is a working example of an old Wurlitzer "band organ" from the 1920s, which is like an entire marching band that fits into a machine the size of a large closet and uses punched paper rolls. They used to be seen in parks on merry-go-rounds and stuff, and they almost always have a creepy circus clown-like face to them, with the cymbals making up the eyes and the "teeth" being vanes that open and close to control volume. I have heard it play marching band versions of Michael Jackson tunes, so someone is still making paper rolls for it. Amazing machines Wurlitzer made back in the old days. Electromechanical stuff is simple when you look at how it works, but so are many electronic circuits. Designing them from scratch is a whole different ball of wax. You could tinker, using your own experience until you figure it out, or you could use control theory math to do it professionally, which I imagine is how Wurlitzer engineers did it (at least for any new designed parts they hadn't used before).
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  175. Once years ago I had a friend who worked in the US Capitol and she got me a visitor pass and I rode on one of those underground systems. Didn't look anything like that, though. What I rode on looked like it was from the 1930s, with art deco styling and, I think, brass fittings on the driver's control panel. Hard to remember exactly.
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  176. My family had the wall mount version from the That 70s Show clip. Same color, even.
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  177. So an LED printer passed off as a laser printer, that's like the legend about what you're really eating when you order calamari at a bar. (Hint: you might be better off not knowing)
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  178. "That's a different number in kilograms." I like the cut of your jib.
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  179. Every time you said "96" the top of your hair got a bit more messed up.
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  180. I appreciate your willingness to go out on a limb with your educated guesses about the functions in front of such a huge audience, and also the large amount of work you must have put into this video, not just disassembling and reassembling the device, but actually going to the trouble to trace solder runs from pin to pin, which is no small headache considering you have to keep it all straight as you flip the board over from component side to trace side. Good on you.
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  181. 20:20 you missed an opportunity to parody Blair Witch....
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  182.  @xureality  Also, IIRC, Techmoan found that those records with their skinnier grooves tended to be harder to keep clean as any dirt would stick in the tiny grooves.
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  183.  @dougbrowning82  I think they did make 78 rpm records in vinyl at one time, didn't they? I have an old record player with a 78 setting but I can't play shellac records on it because it has a modern diamond needle cartridge. I assumed the 78 setting was for vinyl 78s, but I've never seen any.
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  184.  @dougbrowning82  Doing a little searching it seems there were some 78 rpms made with microgrooves on vinyl rather than shellac, some as recently as 2011 with a Beach Boys special release. I can't find any for sale yet, though.
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  185.  @dougbrowning82  I am guessing the higher speed makes for higher fidelity, same as it works with 45 rpms and faster tape recordings. Would love to check it out if I can find one. Would finally give my old Garrard record player an excuse to use its 78 rpm setting.
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  186.  @01chippe  Guess I'll have to look those up.
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  187. It's also where David Hahn, aka "The Radioactive Boy Scout", got his thorium supply when attempting to build a nuclear reactor in his mom's garden shed.
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  188. During the blooper footage at the end I was waiting for you to Do It Live Bill O'Reilly style.
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  189. He mentions early fax machines in the beginning. IF interested, search youtube for "Secret Life of Machines Fax" for an awesome TV show which I miss very much.
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  190. My main confusion is seeing that Pioneer apparently makes not only hi fi gear but also HVAC equipment, and that they stole Pepsi's corporate logo.
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  191. Links in the description are always appreciated, since I have all that cards and other crap turned off by default. I hate those things.
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  192. I was waiting for him to tear one apart through the magic of buying two of them.
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  193. Polemic
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  194. Okay, but this video is incomplete, due to the lack of La Cucaracha horns and the Dixie horn from The Dukes of Hazzard.
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  195. One thing you didn't mention as a drawback with window units was the tendency of people to drop them out the window every once in a while. When you're balancing that heavy sucker on the window sill, make sure you don't let go of it until you get it secured, or else it's going for a ride. And heaven help any poor schmuck walking under your bedroom window when you screw this up.
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  196. Did Carl Sagan steal your stuff?!
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  197. This kind of old retro-tech stuff is what drew me to this channel in the first place. Well done.
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  198. Gold plated TOSLINK connectors. Audiophiles lol.
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  199. You should get a downvote just for that seasonings greetings joke. You really should. But I upvoted you anyway for some reason. Also, I have a bubble light nightlight that looks like Uncle Sam's star=spangled top hat. Guess that'll have to turn up in my next music video or something now.
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  200. My dad used to hate the stock "busy office phones ringing" sound effect you'd hear in every movie or TV show that featured a police station or a newsroom. Also, when a phone rings several times before a character picks it up, that drove him nuts and still drives me nuts.
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  201. It makes me a little sad that the concept of VHF and UHF stations will be lost on people in the future. Growing up in the 80s all the cartoons after school came on the local UHF station and it's where I saw many anime shows, on a TV set that was also a piece of furniture, with a heavy wooden cabinet and a bunch of tubes inside that took a minute to warm up. No remote control, just a couple of big clunky tuning knobs, one that clicked between VHF channels and the other which was more like a radio tuner for UHF tuning. And if the TV broke down, and you couldn't figure out which tube was bad, you'd actually get a television repairman to come to your house and fix it. He had an ultimate set of tools. He could fix it.
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  202. Slow as it is, it still beats having to rewrite an entire page after a mistake. Have you ever run across any other font daisy wheels for it? And are daisy wheel printers going to be the next hipster retro-tech comeback?
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  203. Honestly this is not that big of a deal, for cryin' out loud.
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  204. It amazes me that the chimney pipe is a piece of plastic.
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  205. You're pronouncing analogue wrong, it's anal-low-GOO
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  206.  @bobsagget823  Did your mommy let you use the computer today little one?
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  207. 8:45 That's a bold move, reaching over that fan with the blades so close to your pants. Could've made for a hilarious out take.
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  208.  @justaskin8523  Lack of sense of humor is also a sign of weakness on the Internet!
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  209. Something else cool about 1960s tech: your car would just run and didn't require a software update or an internet connection, and if a light in the dash burned out you could replace it for a few bucks instead of paying $600 to replace the entire instrument unit. On the downside, the engine and transmission would need a rebuild every 120k miles or so and the body would rust out in 5 years, but most maintenance could be done in your driveway without a computerized diagnostic machine at least. And of course, you could hotrod it a lot easier.
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  210. I watch Techmoan as well, so it's even worse. Add to that list nixie tubes, DAT cassette players, vertical record players, a Seeburg background music system from a 1970s K-Mart...
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  211. Trolling the Kelvin pedants > bonus points for you
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  212. That BMW joke tho...
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  213. It's all good. Just make sure you always have two working computers and back your stuff up. That way when one computer crashes your youtube career doesn't get put on pause until you sort it out.
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  214. Now I wish my dishwasher had a window in the side. Along with all my other appliances.
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  215. Great video. Any time you want to spend lots of time on tech corporate history it's fine with me, I'm guaranteed to watch. LGR's Tech Tales is another example.
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  216. I have a couple of the ordinary oil lamps in my living room, mostly as decoration, but they do come in handy when the power goes out. They are almost bright enough to read with. I put oil in them years ago and they get used seldom enough I've only used a fraction of it. If I had little kids or something running around the house I don't think I'd trust them though.
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  217. I always thought everyone knew about this, and just didn't bother with it. I had a buddy who used to burn mp3 CDs all the time to use in his car and on his boat, and I had friends who would burn each other CDs and pass them around.
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  218. I don't really know why I'm watching this. I will NEVER do this. But for some reason it's interesting.
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  219. You need to relax, you're so worked up you're about to force your lute!
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  220. You're right, it's an editorial.
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  221. You're doing it wrong. It's "1001001, in distress!"
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  222. This is an interesting video, and as always I wonder at the things you get aggravated about. I couldn't care less if some people dislike switched outlets, sounds like a "them" problem.
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  223. Ya know, I was living a perfectly happy life, watching movies that happen to have telephones, and you just HAD to come along with this video and wreck it. What has been heard cannot be unheard!
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  224. These were foisted upon us by political policy makers, as opposed to economy driven innovation, so it's no wonder they suck. I still have a few around my house, such as in the bathroom lights, which will be there until they fail. But I and lots of people I knew resented being essentially forced to buy these pieces of crap, and to add insult to injury we were also admonished for not disposing of them properly, so lots of people just said fuck it and threw them in the trash. You want to force us to use this crap? Fine, you can come to my house and pick up the dead ones, right then? No? Fine off to the landfill they go then. They never worked right with my porch lamp timer and they gave off a harsh light in the living room which was unbearable. They only ones I thought were cool were the colored ones they'd sell around Halloween, I still have a bunch of those in a drawer I pull out for holidays and will miss them when they fail, but I imagine there are LED versions of those around somewhere.
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  225. I like how you don't take off your coat while doing messy work. That's dedication.
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  226. Sunbeam is still around, any reason why they can't reissue this model? Maybe with some minor upgrades for safety compliance? Why did they stop making them?
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  227. In the town where I grew up there was at least one streetlamp that would switch off when a car hit it with high beams just right. I'm guessing that particular lamp was either wired differently or it's control unit was faulty.
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  228. After living through the late unpleasantness these past two years, the importance of canned foods has been highlighted. Canned foods are fine tasting and keep for years without needing refrigeration. Anti-can snobbery is just stupid.
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  229. More safety shit to make overcomplicated cars even more complicated? No thanks. I miss my 1970s Volkswagon. Dependable and easy to work on without all this computer shit.
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