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NanoRaptor

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Australian. Print and pixel wrangler. She/her.

Currently in my Medicated ADHD era. Extremely tall, 100% taken.

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It’s rare to find a TI-92 plus with a working hinge.

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Is there a derogatory term for those autogenerated manuals where you look up say “print head horizontal calibration” and it points you to page 244 and all pages 244-247 are is a description with photos on how to pick settings->maintenance->initial->calibration->horizontal”? And the entire manual is just 324 pages of saying “to perform horizontal print head calibration simply select the horizontal print head calibration option” for every option in a device’s menu tree? Cos I hate that so much.

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Some more of the cats, for those who want cat pics.

From the front towards the back: Bluebell, Rory, ???, Dippy Dooster Rooster Booster, Launchpad, ??, Spak, Mother of all Bears, ??, Cleopratra.

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Obi, a himalayan kitten, holding still while scanned with a Digi-View, probably 1990/91.

One of maybe sixty cats I grew up with, and my Amiga 2000. Also, the same desk I'm using right now.

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About as 80s as a tech ad gets - from Omni Magazine, July 1989 for an early Sony Mavica.

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@foone Bugger - is it just one of those kinda unreliable technologies that never worked itself out?

I'm lucky enough to have four quicktakes and a 2001 mavica - all working (though the images from the 100/150s are only a technical 'work')

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Touch Bar with Control Strip.

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remember, kids:
HDMI is like RS232: the more adapters you use, the better it works.

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@darkling @foone foone has inspired me probably more than the other way.

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The short-lived optical parallel port brought numerous advantages to the interconnectivity table. Advantages included small size for the era, transfers free of electrical noise, the speed of parallel transfer, and the convenient ability to debug protocols just by having a look.

An animated image of a DE-9 plug with a pair of seven segment displays plus decimal points embedded in it. The displays are flashing with hex digits, transferring data in parallel and with optical clarity.

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In Terminator Genisys, a 1984 scene has a time machine patched together by the terminator. Included in the machine is the logic board from a Macintosh LC III, which would not be released until 1993, nine years later. To time travel, it needed something already from the future. Checkmate, terminator.

A photo of the logic board of a Macintosh LC III.

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A little work iMac decoration

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I purchased a Bronica PE 50mm f/2.8 lens for my ETRSi from Japan via eBay on Wednesday morning, and it arrived at my doorstep 98 hours later, I’m staggered at this speed. Granted, it was DHL and shipping wasn’t exactly cheap, but c’mon, this is coming from the other side of the planet to where I am.

And of course the lens is in fantastic condition.

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@georgeharito When orders hit just the right paths already in place, magic can happen. My most jawdropping one was being a bit tipsy after a friday night and ordering RAM from macsales.com something like 2am on a Saturday morning.

The delivery arrived Monday night a little over 2 and a half days later. Tracking showed it left their warehouse and hit detroit within a couple hours, and left the US within 4. Amazing!

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The true and only origin story

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Apple Jonathan aesthetic.

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Scare quotes make things sound so much worse than they are.

"...using care, take approximately fifty grams of the Cobalt-60 sample and lower it into the beaker of Chlorine Trifluoride. Some have found a fume hood of benefit during this process, especially in humid weather."

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The Time Traveler's Desk.

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Apple //c with UV Retina display.

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That time again - do you have any data stored on your devices that's important to you? Do you have it backed up? Multiple times? Regularly? Have you checked that your backups are actually happening? Have you checked that you can restore from them?

Brought to you as usual by I-lost-everything-once-and-never-again.

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The iPod was released closer to the 1970s than to today.

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Originally posted as an ad for Conrac displays by @tubetime I couldn't find this Syd Mead one elsewhere online with a quick look, so here - stitched back together and cleaned up a little.

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The First IBM PC, the 5150, was released closer to the start of World War II than to today.

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Mac OS X Panther was released closer to the original 1984 Macintosh than to today.

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Many know that in the original Terminator, 6502 assembly scrolls over the display from the T-800’s POV. But in Terminator 3: Rise of the machines when Arnie reboots, a different list flicks past - it’s a list of Mac OS 9 extensions. The T-850 is clearly a pre-G5 PowerPC based Terminator.

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