Vintage technology

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I have Photoshop 1.0.7 for MacOS 6 on a floppy somewhere. Basically, MS Paint is more powerful!

I also had a 8" floppy disc, exactly like the 5.25" ones just supersized. I think they held something huge like 800KB? lololol!

I still have my original floppy disc of Wave for Windows 3.1. that was the first windows wave editor.

I am into vintage computers. That was when computers were true machines. They were built like tanks, thick steel and plastic, heavy. One of my favorites are IBMs. I like the old 5150/60/70 models and the PS/2s.

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Vintage tech is amazing:

Steam locomotives
Flintlock muskets
Percussion rifle-muskets
Muzzle loading artillery
Adrian helmets
French 75/British QF gun
Revolvers
Lever-action rifles
Steamboats
WW1 era tanks
Piston-driven aircraft
WW2 era aircraft carriers
Battleships
Battlecruisers
Dreadnoughts
WW1 and WW2 era submarines
Lee-Enfield rifles
Swords
Crossbows
Bows
Men-of-war
Vintage cars and motorcycles
Apollo-era space stuff
Space shuttle (even though the program was something of a poor choice to make)
Late nineties to mid oughts gaming and computer stuff

Yea, I can safely say I'm a fan of vintage technology.

I have an inexpensive 80s-vintage casio keyboard that was one of the early users of digital sound processing.

1948 desk telephone.

There is one piece of "vintage technology" I am happy to say I have not seen since 1960 (most of you were not around then). It is the Iron Lung. The Iron Lung is a respirator into which a person with Polio whose diaphragm is paralyzed can be placed. This beastly think kept the person alive by creating a period partial vacuum which would cause air to be drawn into the lungs and then pressure would be applied by the device to push the air out.

There person installed in the device would have only his head sticking out. All the rest would be inside the tube. He would not have use of his/her arms. It was dreadful but the only way to keep some of the Polio victims breathing and alive.

The introduction of Salks dead virus vaccine and later Sabin's live virus vaccine put an end to Polio in the U.S and later in much of the industrialized world. Good riddance to the Iron Lung!

ruveyn

I love ancient engineering achievements ,differential gearing clockwork oddities ingeniously powered by steam, water, gravity, pulleys etc and steam punk

I love my vintage Technology. I have a Sony LBT-D305 souund system, from about the early 90s, complete with turntable. It gives the best sound I have ever heard, that's why I haven't replaced it.

I still have a VHS recorder, and a shedload of tapes, although I don't use them much. we still have plenty of CRT tvs, from the early 2000s (Not vintage, but everyone regards them as so, so I guess it counts)

I have copies of all the older Microsoft Operating systems install ISOs on my computer although I hardly use them.

I still have a Sony Mavica MVC-CD1000. It was a big waste of a thousand dollars. At the time a digital camera that burned the pictures right onto a CD seemed like a good idea.

I still use CDRs big time. but I haven't used the mavica since I can't remember when.

CDRs are OK, but they are a bit too slow for a camera.

Any recording technology that requires moving mass through space is going to be speed limited.

ruveyn

I think old technology can be quite fascinating, and I used to play around with old computers and consoles all the time, but my current living situation doesn't really allow for much of this. Oh well, that's what emulators and a sufficiently powerful laptop are good for!

Do any of you guys have a slide rule.

When Apollo was launched during the 60's virtually all of the calculations done at Cape Carnaveral were done using slide rules.
Since slide rules are good to at most 3 decimal places the engineers had to develop an almost uncanny ability to estimate orders of magnitude. Those were the days. The engineers actually had to -think- about what they were doing.

ruveyn

Is that Sarge from Quake III? I used to LAN that game with my friends all the time. At one point I even had a network of old Pentium IIs and IIIs in my basement that we would play that on.