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

  1. You're not supposed to shake them.
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  2. It's not just jet fuel, it's also rocket fuel. The Atlas, Saturn, and Falcon rockets all use it.
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  3. 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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  4.  @Altoclarinets  lol like Debbie Downer
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  5. 2:25 nice callout to Grady
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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12.  @tookitogo  Nah, that's called "Yanny"
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  13. 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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  14. RCA: the original patent troll
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  15. @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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  16. @Phillip Banes Keep on posting, you might win an argument on the internet.
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  17. "Physicists hate this" lol nice one
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  18.  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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  19.  @racer927  You were supposed to wait another three days.
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  20. Almost as dark as the Zune's future.
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  21. 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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  22. I want to live in a world full of English units and blue LEDs. Also, red turn signals, only red.
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  23. 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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  24. 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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  25. 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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  26. My family had the wall mount version from the That 70s Show clip. Same color, even.
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  27. 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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  28. "That's a different number in kilograms." I like the cut of your jib.
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  29. Every time you said "96" the top of your hair got a bit more messed up.
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  30. 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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  31. 20:20 you missed an opportunity to parody Blair Witch....
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  32.  @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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  33.  @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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  34.  @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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  35.  @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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  36.  @01chippe  Guess I'll have to look those up.
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  37. 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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  38. During the blooper footage at the end I was waiting for you to Do It Live Bill O'Reilly style.
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  39. 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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  40. 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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  41. 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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  42. I was waiting for him to tear one apart through the magic of buying two of them.
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  43. Polemic
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  44. 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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  45. 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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  46. Did Carl Sagan steal your stuff?!
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  47. This kind of old retro-tech stuff is what drew me to this channel in the first place. Well done.
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  48. Gold plated TOSLINK connectors. Audiophiles lol.
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  49. 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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  50. 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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