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    • scottalanmiller
      scottalanmiller last edited by

      IT World has 20 tech sounds you may have forgotten or if you are younger, never knew.

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      • scottalanmiller
        scottalanmiller last edited by

        Slide 10 they use channel 31 wuhf Rochester. That was the station that I watched most as a child. That's the station that introduced me to Star Trek!

        The sign off there is SO familiar!

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        • Dashrender
          Dashrender last edited by

          I wish the dot matrix is one I had forgotten.. lol...

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            Carnival Boy last edited by

            We still use Oki Microline dot-matrix printers extensively here <blushes>
            I really hate them but haven't yet found the time or the will to replace them.

            And slide projectors are still popular amongst photographers aren't they? So hardly historic.

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            • Dashrender
              Dashrender last edited by

              We finally got rid of all but one dot matrix this past winter. We will have one left for billing. I expect that one to be gone by next summer.

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              • scottalanmiller
                scottalanmiller last edited by

                I'm from a slide photographer background and I don't think these are still popular. They never were popular with serious photographers because they destroy the originals so quickly.

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                • gjacobse
                  gjacobse last edited by

                  I imaging with the progression of things, that the Click of a hard drive head crash will be one we add to that list some time in the next 10 - 20 years. As SSHD increase in capacity... we'll use SATA less.

                  *click, click whir; click, click whir"

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                    Carnival Boy last edited by

                    There something I still find incredibly thrilling about the noise of a dial-up modem connecting.

                    Other ones to go soon would include the noise a CD drawer makes opening and closing.

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                      Carnival Boy @scottalanmiller last edited by

                      @scottalanmiller said:

                      They never were popular with serious photographers because they destroy the originals so quickly.

                      Define serious photographer.

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                      • scottalanmiller
                        scottalanmiller @Carnival Boy last edited by

                        @Carnival-Boy said:

                        @scottalanmiller said:

                        They never were popular with serious photographers because they destroy the originals so quickly.

                        Define serious photographer.

                        Those that don't use projectors for a start ;)

                        Photographers who go for the maximum in image quality. Typically for commercial print or competition.

                        Slide projectors are common for showing travel pics or other things where display outranks image quality. Much more casual.

                        Until you get to people using slide projectors and only showing dupes. Then you are back to the serious people but a tiny number.

                        Even back when film was used in serious quantity slides were very rare. I'm from Kodaks home town and even there at best 1% of people used slides.

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                        • thanksajdotcom
                          thanksajdotcom last edited by

                          I loved the different versions of Windows one. Some were new, most weren't. WTH is Foghorn though?

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                          • scottalanmiller
                            scottalanmiller last edited by

                            Boy you ARE young. It was Longhorn, that's why the emblem looks like the UT emblem. Them was the codename for Windows 2008 until release day. It was used so heavily that people still refer to it.

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                            • thanksajdotcom
                              thanksajdotcom @scottalanmiller last edited by

                              @scottalanmiller said:

                              Boy you ARE young. It was Longhorn, that's why the emblem looks like the UT emblem. Them was the codename for Windows 2008 until release day. It was used so heavily that people still refer to it.

                              That's what I meant. And okay. Good to know.

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                              • scottalanmiller
                                scottalanmiller last edited by

                                They talked about it for years. Many of the highly touted Longhorn features still haven't arrived.

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                                  A Former User last edited by

                                  I kind of miss the windows 98 & 2000 startup sounds. I think they sounded better back then.

                                  and @ajstringham how have you not heard of Longhorn, there were so many leaked beta versions of longhorn. Actually I was able to get on an official beta team for a short while though.

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                                  • ?
                                    A Former User last edited by

                                    Dang I haven't seen a top loading VCR in many years.

                                    Anybody remember this software? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4Ocd3cYivA It came with a lot of windows 95 computers.

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                                      A Former User last edited by

                                      Even more flash back

                                      Youtube Video

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