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17th November 2007, 06:00 AM
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  |  In pictures: Your retro technology   Marcel Wierckx has an Apple Mac Classic as a doorstop. What would Steve Jobs say?  Stephen Marshall has an Alpina handheld mechanical calculator which dates from around 1961. He said: "It still works perfectly and is surprisingly easy to use."  Rick Collier sent in a photo of an ancient Ferrograph F307 amplifier from the 1960/70s. The sound card on his PC and a digital radio provide the audio.  Chris Dodkin has a classic arcade machine, Defender, in his study. It dates back to 1980.  Rick also has a few more classic machines in his collection...  Murray Futardo is a serious collector. He has a huge collection of handheld consoles. "I love them for their old school graphics and funky case designs," he said.  Paul Shuttleworth has an Epson HX-20, considered the world's first laptop. Made in 1981 it had 16K of RAM.  Andrew Scott says his Sinclair Spectrum is "very dear" to him. He is finishing his PhD in computing and says the Spectrum "changed my life" as it taught him programming as a child.  Dylan Smith is also a Spectrum fan. To celebrate the computer's 25th anniversary this year he built a Diagnostics board to help fix old Spectrums.   RMS Carpathia: actually the way the iron golems look in this game.. it looks like trailer trash redneck borgs.. because they are just diffrent metals all put togeather and when they walk they look like they are going to fall over Get your own personal forum Like these ones - Personal forum listing Bored @ work? Play in our arcade! Useful Tips on how to use UOForums Open your own blog |
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| Re: In pictures: Your retro technology I love being Retro! I was more Retro than my friend who is 44 years of age... which is pretty bad... he liked all that stuff until WoW >_< (I am not intending to bash WoW here just a little ways of him playing into it his out look on this changed drastically!) And then he suddenly wanted everything "new" and stuff... ugh... no sentimental value I guess... I am not from his times because I am too young and I appericate everything from now and under... I love this type of stuff! I even got my mom's original 8-track player from her car years back and it still works great! My dad won't go of anything else though =P can't blame him... Retro technology = awesome! -RMS Carpathia-  -Back to the Future 2- Marty McFly: There he is, Doc! Let's land on him, we'll cripple his car. Doctor Emmett L. Brown: Marty, he's in a '46 Ford, we're in a DeLorean. He'd rip through us like we were tin foil. -RMS Carpathia- Last edited by RMS Carpathia; 17th November 2007 at 09:11 AM. |
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