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09 Jan 2014, 10:14 pm

if only windows 7 was that efficient.



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18 Jan 2014, 3:19 am

Crazily enough, I still own a Panasonic VHS VCR my parents got almost 15 years ago, when we moved into our current home. Still works like a charm, amazingly!


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18 Jan 2014, 4:06 am

Wurlitzer and Robert Morton theatrical pipe organs in various old/new installation movie theatres and pizza places [most notably organ stop pizza in mesa AZ] are still going strong even in the face of digital theatre organs for a fraction of the price. nothing can exactly duplicate the sound of those old monsters.



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18 Jan 2014, 4:20 am

My parent's coffeemaker is almost 26 years old. It's been used everyday since it was brand new, and isn't showing any signs of giving up yet. I still have a portable Olivette Praxis 20 typewriter from 1983.



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18 Jan 2014, 7:00 am

Kurgan wrote:
My parent's coffeemaker is almost 26 years old. It's been used everyday since it was brand new, and isn't showing any signs of giving up yet. I still have a portable Olivette Praxis 20 typewriter from 1983.


Well, they really haven't improved the technology for boiling water and pouring it through a filter basket. :lol:



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18 Jan 2014, 9:34 pm

dynamic loudspeakers using paper cones are a vintage [nearly a century old] technology still used by bose corporation among others.



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21 Jan 2014, 3:27 pm

I wonder if the CRT TV will ever have a cult following 20 years from now or will it become a dead and buried technology?

Vinyl records went obsolete in the early 1990 and yet, there is still a strong cult fallowing out there.

8-tracks went obsolete in the early 1980 and that is pretty much a dead and buried technology.



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21 Jan 2014, 4:05 pm

78 rpm recordings are still being played today including in my own collection, so I would guess that as long as there are working 8-track machines there will be people playing their 8-track tapes.



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21 Jan 2014, 9:42 pm

I keep a few pieces of old electronics around in working condition. In addition to some old game consoles I acquired second hand (Atari, NES, etc.), I have several devices of different ages hooked up to my home stereo - the TV provides digital input to the late 1990s era receiver from the "modern" devices (Blu-ray player, Xbox 360, etc.). and I also have it connected to a 1980s tape deck, 1990s CD changer (it was having skipping problems recently until fixed with some strategically placed drops of WD-40), and a 1970s audio system I found at a thrift store (with turntable and 8-track, though I do not have any 8-track tapes to play on it). I've also got an early 1980s high-end Denon CD player that is in need of repair - I think the laser is going bad or something like that


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21 Jan 2014, 9:58 pm

I wish I could find somebody who could fix my dbx CD player, circa 1985, I have found no other player with its features [variable dynamic range, variable stereo width, variable microdynamic impact].



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22 Jan 2014, 12:28 am

My friend's stepdad once showed me a quadraphonic 8-track system he owned, and I thought it was insanely cool. It was like surround sound, but retro. :D The sound quality was quite nice too, definitely as good as a well-maintained vinyl record. Unfortunately, the collector's market for quadraphonic 8-tracks is rather crazy, and tapes in the format can go for quite a pretty penny. :P



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22 Jan 2014, 1:56 am

mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:
My friend's stepdad once showed me a quadraphonic 8-track system he owned, and I thought it was insanely cool. It was like surround sound, but retro. :D The sound quality was quite nice too, definitely as good as a well-maintained vinyl record. Unfortunately, the collector's market for quadraphonic 8-tracks is rather crazy, and tapes in the format can go for quite a pretty penny. :P

aside from quad open reel tapes, the quad 8-track format was probably the best sound quality [considering home equipment] that the average consumer had back in the day. no crackles and pops, just a bit of tape hiss which most speakers of the day did not accentuate. if I had been of age back then I woulda stocked up on those q8 tapes and made sure I had multiple working specimens of both tape and player to last me down to the present day. did you know that the original redbook CD specification called for 4 discrete channels of audio, of approx. 40 minutes [the same as most LP records of the day]? that was scotched by the Japanese [co-producers of the CD format] who demanded that one single CD be able to hold the whole Beethoven's 9th symphony. too bad. just think what music would be like nowadays with 4 channels of sound. with today's tech that could easily have extrapolated out to at least 8 derived or matrixed channels. wow :o



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23 Jan 2014, 10:16 am

This may be out of context for the current situation, but i am trying to get my hands on an old intel 8008.



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23 Jan 2014, 3:11 pm

the compact cassette always has had the capability of being recorded-on/played back in 4 discrete channels of sound, it was just waiting for the equipment to come along which did not happen until the 1980s.



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08 Feb 2014, 4:15 pm

auntblabby wrote:
the compact cassette always has had the capability of being recorded-on/played back in 4 discrete channels of sound, it was just waiting for the equipment to come along which did not happen until the 1980s.


A lot of garage bands in the 80s and 90s use those 4-track cassette recorders. tracks 1 and 2 where recorded on side A as left and right and tracks 3 and 4 where recorded on side B as left and right but in reverse. If you where to put one of those 4-track cassettes into an ordinary cassette player and play side B. You would hear track 3 and 4 but would play backwards.



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08 Feb 2014, 6:00 pm

LupaLuna wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
the compact cassette always has had the capability of being recorded-on/played back in 4 discrete channels of sound, it was just waiting for the equipment to come along which did not happen until the 1980s.


A lot of garage bands in the 80s and 90s use those 4-track cassette recorders. tracks 1 and 2 where recorded on side A as left and right and tracks 3 and 4 where recorded on side B as left and right but in reverse. If you where to put one of those 4-track cassettes into an ordinary cassette player and play side B. You would hear track 3 and 4 but would play backwards.

I really wished that the co-creators of the red book CD standard would've went with the original 4-track format. it would have fostered tremendous growth in the home audio market along much different lines than today.