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

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. Honestly this is not that big of a deal, for cryin' out loud.
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  4. It amazes me that the chimney pipe is a piece of plastic.
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  5. You're pronouncing analogue wrong, it's anal-low-GOO
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  6.  @bobsagget823  Did your mommy let you use the computer today little one?
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  7. 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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  8.  @justaskin8523  Lack of sense of humor is also a sign of weakness on the Internet!
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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. Trolling the Kelvin pedants > bonus points for you
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  12. That BMW joke tho...
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  13. 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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  14. Now I wish my dishwasher had a window in the side. Along with all my other appliances.
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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. You need to relax, you're so worked up you're about to force your lute!
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  20. You're right, it's an editorial.
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  21. You're doing it wrong. It's "1001001, in distress!"
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  22. 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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  23. 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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  24. 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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  25. I like how you don't take off your coat while doing messy work. That's dedication.
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  26. 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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  27. 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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  28. 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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  29. 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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