Olds go nostalgic for the good old days of tech

RAvery · January 7, 2020, 2:42am

I forgot about him.

Franko · January 7, 2020, 2:42pm

i have an SE or two (or is one a Mac Plus?) downstairs that still has this on there. he’s pretty great.

RAvery · January 8, 2020, 3:55am

I loved my family’s SE. The sound of its weighty hard drive spinning-up and mounting was musical.

RAvery · January 12, 2020, 4:53am

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RAvery · January 22, 2020, 2:26am

Part II of the Сою́з clock.

RAvery · January 29, 2020, 4:12am

AndyHilmer · January 29, 2020, 4:20am

Time for a cigarette break—80s-90s-yo—or possibly lunch. 36 minutes

MrMonkey · January 29, 2020, 4:28am

I gotta respect the technique, but that video was too long by an order of magnitude. I could only take about 40 seconds with the sound on.

Although to be fair, I might give it another try in some sort of background capacity in the future. It looks like it has potential as a sort of gradually evolving meditation that is best consumed with only partial attention.

Or possibly rapt attention. I haven’t quite decided.

AndyHilmer · January 29, 2020, 4:44am

The background for the scene of a business meeting in a historical mockumentary maybe?

chgoliz · January 29, 2020, 5:48am

Never thought I’d hear that sound again!

RAvery · January 29, 2020, 1:16pm

If 40 minutes is too much, here is the condensed version with added info.

kxkvi · January 29, 2020, 1:53pm

Those high frequencies make my teeth hurt. Sort of limits the meditation potential.

RAvery · January 29, 2020, 2:04pm

I liked it. I found it very relaxing.

Franko · January 29, 2020, 2:49pm

wow, i haven’t heard that in a looong time. i like it. so musical.

Crashproof · January 29, 2020, 8:27pm

The User - Symphony for Dot Matrix Printers

It’s really a lovely piece of music

smulder · February 2, 2020, 3:05am

RAvery · February 6, 2020, 3:37am

It absolutely fascinating how complex this machine is!

LockeCJ · February 11, 2020, 6:16am

I remember making banners for special occasions like birthdays.

I have often wished for an accurate recreation of the experience of using Print Shop on the Apple ][. It could probably be recreated pretty easily as a web app that produces PDFs, with the obvious downside that banners wouldn’t really work.

On an unrelated note, I picked this up for the 33 1/3rd anniversary:

ChickieD · February 11, 2020, 7:04am

Nice!!! I TMBG.