The Rewinder. It was a nifty little device that would rewind your VHS tapes super fast (well faster than the VCR at least).
'Obsolete' technology that you remember using.
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I do seem to remember having to make the computer run in DOS mode for a lot of games. You basically booted the game, rather than the OS, right?Gildan Bladeborn said:
VHS went DVDfurmaster3000 said:
DVD replaced by Blu-ray
Walkman replaced by iPod and Zen and Zune(iPod wasn't the first MP3 player)
Record Player, replaced by CD player replaced by MP3 Player, Media Centres etc
Horse and cart, replaced by Petrol car being replaced by Hybrids which may go fully Electric one day
Book went E-Reader
Candle went Lightbulb went LED(well, some lights are now LEDs)
lol just thought i'd go the extra bit with your post
Heh, I remember upgrading my computer from DOS 5 to DOS 6.22 in high school. I had a lot of fun connecting my 2400 bps modem to the local college's BBS.
However, the worst is probably from when I was a little kid. We had an Apple II+, and I was always soooo frustrated by it, because the next model up was the Apple IIe, which was almost exactly the same, but Apple donated thousands of IIe computers to schools in the 80s, so all the programs out there were for them, not my Apple II+. It wouldn't have been so bad, but they were really so similar that I could get some programs to work on my computer, but they always had problems, because my computer only had 48kB of RAM, and the Apple IIe had 64kB.
Oh yeah, I also actually remember having to get up to change channels. On a TV with two channel dials, one with 2-13 and the other with 14 through... I dunno, somewhere around thirty, I think. You had to set the top dial to channel 3 to get the bottom one to work. Fun times.
However, the worst is probably from when I was a little kid. We had an Apple II+, and I was always soooo frustrated by it, because the next model up was the Apple IIe, which was almost exactly the same, but Apple donated thousands of IIe computers to schools in the 80s, so all the programs out there were for them, not my Apple II+. It wouldn't have been so bad, but they were really so similar that I could get some programs to work on my computer, but they always had problems, because my computer only had 48kB of RAM, and the Apple IIe had 64kB.
Oh yeah, I also actually remember having to get up to change channels. On a TV with two channel dials, one with 2-13 and the other with 14 through... I dunno, somewhere around thirty, I think. You had to set the top dial to channel 3 to get the bottom one to work. Fun times.
Not quite, unless you had a specific boot disk. Simply put, OSes like MS-DOS Shell, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, etc. up until the release of Windows 2000/Me were built on top of MS-DOS.J03bot said:
DOS would boot up and throw up a picture of the Windows logo to hide the fact that it had finished booting up DOS and started running Windows. If you quit Windows, you'd go back to DOS. Back before Windows, DOS would boot up and that was all you got, a command-line interface, where you do everything by typing rather than clicking.
No they wouldn't take over, mostly because of their cost. By the time they became mainstream, fully electric cars will probs be mainstream. But they are still an advancement and there is a lot of investment being made on Hybrid and Electic carsRAKtheUndead said:
I remember at school having those dot-matrix printers with the paper with the holes in the edges where it was fed through the printer. I also remember it making a shit load of noise and it shaking the table it was on.
Oh and VHS, can't forget the heartbreak when a cheap player would chew up my beloved tape when rewinding as I watched in horror or tried eject it as mangled tape piled out the front.
Oh and VHS, can't forget the heartbreak when a cheap player would chew up my beloved tape when rewinding as I watched in horror or tried eject it as mangled tape piled out the front.
OH MAN. I used to have a walkman! I remember when tapes got tangled up, and had to wind the whole thing back in by hand...
VHS, Cassette Walkmans, CD Walkmans, Analogue radio, CRT Televisions, CRT Monitors, CD drives, Monochrome display phones, Monophonic ringtones, Polyphonic ringtones, Gameboy, Gameboy Pocket, Gameboy Colour, Gameboy Advance, NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, PSX, PS1, PS2, PS2 slim, Xbox, Master System, Megadrive, Saturn, Dreamcast, Scart cables, Aerial console cables, Polaroid cameras, blah blah blah
VCR, Cassettes, Floppy Disks, Windows 95/98, Dial Up
kkkkrsssshheeeeeeeeeiiooooooookkkk, you have connected. I both loved and hated that noise.
kkkkrsssshheeeeeeeeeiiooooooookkkk, you have connected. I both loved and hated that noise.
No internet, dial up internet, floppy disks that where actually floppy, dos gaming being pretty cool shit, cell phones so large they doubled as self defense devices, the original nintendo, sega producing consoles that actually sold well, televisions that only got 4 channels and you had to turn the dial manually to turn them on/off/change channel, vhs, vhs rewinding machines. cassette tapes, fully text based games, damn i'm starting to feel old now.
It was a joke =Pgeon106 said:Zorg Machine said:
2D TV? I still have 2DTV, and its only in HDTV...its such old tech nowlol
Blu ray is so obsolete that red rey is obsolete before it has even been developed. The future lies in green ray.
3D is also obsolete. 4D is the way of the future.
A PC CD-ROM drive with a caddy.
http://www.retrotechnology.com/herbs_stuff/cdcaddy.jpg
They actually recommended getting multiple caddies to let the CDs you used often have their own, exclusive caddies, mostly because caddies were pretty hard to open.
Seriously, caddies were bullshit.
http://www.retrotechnology.com/herbs_stuff/cdcaddy.jpg
They actually recommended getting multiple caddies to let the CDs you used often have their own, exclusive caddies, mostly because caddies were pretty hard to open.
Seriously, caddies were bullshit.
Oh, the glory days. Loading up some good ol' Windows 95 only to restart it in DOS so I could play some Spycraft or Duke Nukem 3D or...WOLFENSTEIN 3D. Anyone else remember those games that actually made learning fun in an unexplainable way? Math (or any other Gen. Ed. subject) Blaster, anyone? I'll be finding all those again today, I think. VCR's, CD players with ANTISKIP (or ESP, as the busted one I have calls it), CRT monitors, mom and dad yelling at you for being on the internet when they tried to call, those PS1 demo discs with awesome games you may never end up playing but are still in awe of, everyone else having XP while you still have '95, playing Oregon trail in library class (yes, our school had a library "class") either on the '98 computer or text-graphic hybrid on the Apple thing.
Strangely enough, for what we think of the older generation holding on to the past, I'm sure we'll be (or already are) doing the same thing. I'm still trying to get my old as hell games to run somehow, because I feel like I've lost a wonderful part of my past when they stopped being compatible.
Strangely enough, for what we think of the older generation holding on to the past, I'm sure we'll be (or already are) doing the same thing. I'm still trying to get my old as hell games to run somehow, because I feel like I've lost a wonderful part of my past when they stopped being compatible.