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I still have mine I bought new in 1986.
Not a Honda, but a Yamaha. Need to get it running again…
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I sold a few BASIC games (on cassette) for the 99/4 when I was in high school. Good times indeed.My first computer was a TI 99/4A in the early 80s. Loaded everything from either cartridge or from audio tape. We later upgraded to 5 1/4 120KB floppy and added 32KB of RAM. Wrote my first programs in BASIC on that thing. Ah....fun times.
This was also my first computer. The company was upgrading, and if the employees wanted, could purchase a wiped unit.My very first PC, an IBM Model 30 286 that cost me around $2500. Twelve inch or so VGA monitor and a whopping 20 megabyte hard drive (that was, like, a DOZEN floppies!).
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The PS/2 keyboard is still in service on a modern PC. I still very much love the tactile, clickity-clack of that genuine, made-in-Armonk, NY mechanical keyboard.
It has occurred to that the fountain pen industry has quite likely followed the buggy whip into the past, ( thanks bic). Can you think of other things that have gone that way recently? (Past 50 years or so).
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Fotomat couldn't handle those.And sending your little round film discs off to Estes for development!
I was thinking that last night. Others and I have mentioned 8 track, and no one had mentioned (Phillips) cassettes. Superior in every way, and hung in a lot longer, equally gone today.Cassettes in general.
Sounds like aOkidata 320 (standard width) and 321 (extra wide) are still in use today for multi-part printing such as checks, loan papers, etc. They'll continue to work near forever as long as there is a supply of the stupid nylon gear that gets stripped every 5 years or so.
Really?Bottle openers, Church Keys.
1983: Commodore 64, monochrome monitor, 170KB floppy drive, Brother dot-matrix printer. Around $1200.My very first PC, an IBM Model 30 286 that cost me around $2500. Twelve inch or so VGA monitor and a whopping 20 megabyte hard drive (that was, like, a DOZEN floppies!).
The PS/2 keyboard is still in service on a modern PC. I still very much love the tactile, clickity-clack of that genuine, made-in-Armonk, NY mechanical keyboard.
I really, really miss two-stroke motorcycles. Especially modified ones with expansion chambers and clip-ons and rearset pegs and solo seats and fork braces and cut-down guards...
And you know the founder’s intent how??One can only hope! If someone were dumb enough to do that after we finally get back to the founder's intent (2nd Amendment is a right conferred only to the states, not individuals) the car should be smart enough to respond accordingly.
Please take this elsewhere.And you know the founder’s intent how??
Vinyl has seen a resurgence in popularity among audiophiles who prefer the sound of analog recordings. When I go to pre-order new albums by my favorite metal bands (I'm a dinosaur in this regard and still collect CD's), I usually see a limited run of a few hundred to a few thousand vinyl copies available.
While I can see why vinyl would come back in that limited way, Sabaton's most recent album is apparently going to be available on cassette. It baffles me why anyone would choose a cassette over a CD.
8-tracks are definitely completely dead though. My grandfather had an 8-track player so I'm a little familiar with them. I thought they were neat, the tapes looked a bit like Nintendo cartridges to my 90's kid brain.
Funny story, I was going to say video game cartridges for an on-topic item, but even those have arguably made a comeback in the Nintendo Switch, although the cartridges for that console are more akin to SD cards than the old, bulky NES and SNES cartridges. Apparently solid-state electronics advanced enough that starting to make cartridges to sell games on made sense again.
I still have mine I bought new in 1986.
Not a Honda, but a Yamaha. Need to get it running again…
People I knew that had three wheelers sold them when quads came out.
I had heard around here most were taken to Mexico.
Imagine a society built on freedom, personal sovereignty, and personal choice, and the concept that your body belongs to you and you alone, even in death.Better they be sent down there as they could clog the Mexican hospitals with the brain dead. Not a problem for us in the U.S. then. Being on a trauma service really opened my eyes to stupid ways of transportation. But then again, I think in every motorcycle shop ought to have organ donation cards front and center. As long as a person rides responsibly their risk is lower for death.
Then again, I remember struggling as a young resident doctor trying to get permits for organ harvesting from "deadheads" from motorcycle wrecks as we called them as there were poor folks in the hospital I worked at who needed them. Yeah, most of the time the organs weren't a tissue match but they always stuck the recovered organs into a private jet and flew them ASAP to wherever they were needed to help someone. Great use for a Learjet. I think maybe they got a "lifeguard" callsign on the air band radio so they got priority to get to where they needed to go fast as far as air traffic control (ATC) was concerned.
Hearts, livers and kidneys. Kidneys were always in great demand. Hearts, I think they still do transplants in some centers but I don't think livers (or parts of them) are not transplanted that much anymore although anyone can correct me here.
Yeah, corneas can be taken from anyone without anyone knowing a tissue match but with modern treatment of corneal diseases, don't have to do a transplant that often. Incidentally, the eye cornea was the first organ transplanted as the eye in humans is immunologically isolated! They did it in the 50's with folks who had corneal cataracts/clouding in the cornea. Was a big deal back then but not as much now. As is like getting lens cataracts addressed now. I had my cataracts out and was a piece o'cake. Actually, it would have been nice to have my eye lenses removed when I was a kid (as long as they could do a redo later when I was older!) Would have made my life easier and less expensive when my parents paid for broken glasses!!
Kurt
The first time that I hunted Wyoming, working on public land, I was shocked to find just how many 'roads' and 'towns' that were on up-to-date Rand McNally road atlas but were actually non-existent! Same thing last year, but the media was Google Maps.....went down 2 different 'roads' that were not really anything one would recognize as anything other than a game trail, and tried to get gas at one town that had been abandoned at least a decade ago!I found an old road atlas a few weeks ago and showed it to my son, explaining that back in the day before Waze or smart phones we had to keep things like that in our cars if we wanted to go on trips to places we'd never been before. He was shocked.
It has occurred to that the fountain pen industry has quite likely followed the buggy whip into the past, ( thanks bic). Can you think of other things that have gone that way recently? (Past 50 years or so).
When I was pretty young, we had a “party line” for phone. Two (or more) different homes shared a phone line. Probably early 70’s.
Imagine a society built on freedom, personal sovereignty, and so personal choice, and the concept that your body belongs to you and you alone, even in death.
I still have mine I bought new in 1986.
Not a Honda, but a Yamaha. Need to get it running again…
Can you still press "0" on your land line and talk to an operator?I read recently that those are still used by insurance adjusters because the pictures are harder to doctor than those from digicams.
I have a land line phone. There is zero cell coverage where I live (for all practical purposes) and a land line is still absolutely essential in places like that.
I still see impact dot matrix printers in daily use in businesses that still use multipart forms.
Point is, several of these things have important niche uses, not just hobby and nostalgia. They've become rare, but still important in their places.
Aren't most recreational astronomers still using Newtonians?Newtonian telescopes.
Blue laws are about whether things are open on Sundays; BYOB is about whether restaurants require scarce and expensive liquor licenses to serve alcohol. BYOBs are all over NJ, blue laws are only still around in a small number of areas (most notoriously Paramus).BYOB restaurants in blue-law states
The vast majority of the market for new telescopes is some form of Schmidt-Cassegrain with a corrector plate and an on-axis secondary mirror. I'm restoring my old Newt right now and certain kinds of parts are now quite scarce.Aren't most recreational astronomers still using Newtonians?
Actually I'm remembering back further to when (in my state) liquor sales licenses did not exist and there was a state imposed monopoly on all liquor sales - this was referred to locally as the blue laws though it's a different situation than you've got in NJ, and the only way to drink outside your home in Iowa was BYOB. The introduction of "liquor-by-the-drink" in Iowa (1963) was a big deal because it was the first time you could buy any liquor at all outside the state liquor stores. There are still laws on the books regulating hours when liquor can be served, but after they started allowing sales on Sunday you don't hear the term "blue laws" anymore.Blue laws are about whether things are open on Sundays; BYOB is about whether restaurants require scarce and expensive liquor licenses to serve alcohol. BYOBs are all over NJ, blue laws are only still around in a small number of areas (most notoriously Paramus).
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