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Odds And Ends And Anything You Fancy
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Hugin&Munin
Presenter Of Images
I also think a lot of the younger members don't know what tapes or a Walkman were anymore. Or the very first computers that still used magnetic tapes for storage.
connoisseurs
Senator
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
The only thing you had to do now, was connecting it to your television set!
poem21045
Tribunus Plebis
According to https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cassette#h1, the original meaning of cassette. . .
. . . was a fancy coffin. Seems ironic, since that's where most cassettes have ended up. (Well, at least figuratively.)
Hugin&Munin
Presenter Of Images
Wasn't the inventor of this great technique Alexander Graham Bell back then? I hardly remember it was such a long time ago!I suppose our senior cruxers immortalised their banjo playing on wax cylinders?
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
The cylinders got in the way of my slide collection, and by the way, I soon discovered more exciting applications of wax!
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
Beautiful mountain landscapes!
Crux-Emperor Baracus X
Rectidolor
Here's something for you aviation buffs...
I found these obscure British aircraft on t' interwebby-net.
Bet you cannot identify them ?? Lol.
I found these obscure British aircraft on t' interwebby-net.
Bet you cannot identify them ?? Lol.
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
This looks like a Fairey Albacore. The others ??? No idea.
Crux-Emperor Baracus X
Rectidolor
Nope.....lol.
Marcius
Tribune
Whoa, that's some deep digging going on. No. 2 - I think I've seen a photo of this one before, a rare post-WWII RAF navigator training aircraft or some such.
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
Found the #4 : Blackburn Shark.
Crux-Emperor Baracus X
Rectidolor
Yip....
Gibbs505
SERVORUM DOMITOR
Anyone watching for the aurora? Supposed to be getting a CME hitting the earth!
Hope that it doesn't turn into a Carrington event!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event
Hope that it doesn't turn into a Carrington event!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
Only rain and bloody cloud cover here. But as long a we are on CF, no Carrington Event has occurred (yet), I think.
Darkprincess69
High Priestess of Slaanesh
The third one is an Edgley Optica. I've seen one flying around here once or twice some years ago. At one time the police wanted to use them instead of helicopters but quickly realised that without the ability to hover in one place, it wasn't as useful. Neat design though but like so many British aircraft, lack of investment and governmental deals with overseas manufacturers pretty much killed it off.
Frank Petrexa
Tribune
Supposedly Bill Gates was pondering the byte size needed to address memory for the PC (8-bit, 16-bit, etc.). "1 Meg! No one is ever going to need that!"
The urban dictionary definition of Microsoft Windows (from the days of the antitrust investigations):
A thirty-two bit extension and graphical shell to a sixteen bit patch to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit microprocessor which was written by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition.
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