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02/17/2010 06:01:47 PM · #1 |
Challenge: Take an interesting and unique photograph of a piece of outdated electronics
Advanced editing... I think it could be interesting |
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02/17/2010 06:04:01 PM · #2 |
| I would be all over this like white on rice, LOL! I have so many examples to choose from, it would be pure hell trying to choose. |
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02/17/2010 07:58:13 PM · #3 |
| Beautiful, warm vacuum tubes! |
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02/17/2010 08:31:02 PM · #4 |
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02/17/2010 08:36:03 PM · #5 |
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02/17/2010 08:48:58 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by kleski:
What's old though??? |
Well... I suppose that's relative... I would say any piece of electronics that is not currently sold as a new model in retail stores... So like, a first generation iPod would count, or an 8-track player... A giant laptop from days of old, or vacuum from 1970... I really think there are allot of opportunities here... Well, at least for me there are, I collect old electronics :) |
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02/17/2010 10:27:13 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by Sirashley:
I collect old electronics :) |
Well, I *don't* (intentionally) collect old electronics, but off the top of my head:
- A Friden EC130 calculator. First electronic calculator with no vacuum tubes (except the display CRT). Memory is electromechanical, stored torque pulses on wires!
- A home-built stereo amplifier from the early '60s (it's really a work of art)
- A pair of Inifinty QLS-1 speakers
- Some HP calculators from the '80s, including two 15Cs, a 16C, and somewhere around here an 11C. The 15Cs are still used daily.
- An AT&T PC-6300 computer, with both monochrome and *color* monitors... one of the few PCs to use the 8086 instead of the ubiquitous 8088. The 8086 had a 16-bit data bus, the 8088 was internally 16-bit but communicated on an 8-bit bus. Still boots.
- Twenty-plus boxes of vacuum tubes, close to a thousand in all, some very rare
- A Dual 714Q turntable from the late '70s that I still user fairly regularly
- A Sansui CD-X711 CD player
- A Sony DTR-700 DAT (Digital Audio Tape) deck from the early '90s
- Various test equipment... multimeters, sound level meters, a 5-channel temperature data logger...
- An old RCA capacitive video disk player; worked last time it was plugged in, LOL.
The list could go on, but, well, you get the picture. |
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02/17/2010 10:38:28 PM · #8 |
| This would be cool. I work on some electronics that over 40 years old. |
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02/18/2010 12:16:52 AM · #9 |
Sound like fun!!
Originally posted by kawesttex:
This would be cool. I work on some electronics that over 40 years old. |
Apparently that old Norelco electric shaver isn't one of those. :P (runs) |
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02/18/2010 12:35:38 AM · #10 |
| This would be fun, even though I threw away tons of stuff not too long ago. |
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02/18/2010 01:14:50 AM · #11 |
| This is too easy, If you bought a New Laptop 2 weeks ago it would qualify as outdated. Same goes for Cameras and just about anything else these days. Should put a date on this one like Electrontics from 1980 and before or something. |
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