May 29, 201412 yr I would disassemble things too, but maybe was a bit more...... incautious. Whenever the power suddenly went out, my mom would automatically scream my name. :blush: We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
May 29, 201412 yr The walkman shocked me the most! I'm only 29, but even I remember cranking the old walkman, then discman's came along but would skip too easily when running (and fitting a CD size device in your pocket... not easy). Then minidisc's came along... I had so many minidiscs! Was great for portability. Finally MP3 players and the iPod and we entered the digital music era!
May 29, 201412 yr Whenever the power suddenly went out, my mom would automatically scream my name. :blush: Drats, I missed out on that one. I could have unwired the whole house! Dad caught on to my talent early on and spoiled my fun by putting me to work fixing things around home. Mel
May 29, 201412 yr These kids would be mightily impressed with crystal radio receivers- A galena crystal w cat's whisker for tuning, headphones, a coil of magnet wire wrapped around a toilet paper roll and a 100 ft copper wire antenna ! No batteries or external power needed to listen to AM radio! Energy to power the headphone magnets came out of the air!!! I remember listening, head under the bed covers, to the Friday evening boxing matches from St. Nicholas Arena in New York! Jiggling the cat's whisker on the crystal, I could pick up the ancient A or N Morse code for one of the airways into Malton Airport (now Pearson International - YYZ) All this about 1940- long before the name Pearl Harbor had been heard. Later I read in Popular Mechanics, of GIs in Italy making similar receivers substituting a razor blade for the crystal! january
May 30, 201412 yr Just to think Concorde was designed almost entirely by use of the slide rule!!! Super VC10 into LOWI with PF3 at a cinema near you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=298UDyNmgUA
May 30, 201412 yr The touchscreen will seem outdated in 25 years because computers are worked by telepathy in 2040... Sascha Rieger | EVO Developer What is EVO • How to get Evo 2016 • FS9 Evolution Forum
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