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Damn I honestly miss seeing payphones.It's gone now.
There is a Chinese restaurant in my area that not just has a payphone, but it is a rotary dial on it too.
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Damn I honestly miss seeing payphones.It's gone now.
oh yeah, actual land lines weren't _super_ great but they were way beyond cell phonesIt's not surprising they disappear when even literal hobos now have multi-core computers that also make phone calls in their pockets, but still. There's something special about analog telephony and the call sound quality later on was amazing. Today's compressed to hell garbage sounds like shit and it's not just my ears getting worse.
He was right. People who called in to shows on cell where just annoying.oh yeah, actual land lines weren't _super_ great but they were way beyond cell phones
I remember how Art Bell lived in a constant state of nerd rage at people who called his show on cells
Landline ~ISDN audio~oh yeah, actual land lines weren't _super_ great but they were way beyond cell phones
I remember how Art Bell lived in a constant state of nerd rage at people who called his show on cells
last I saw even most "land lines" are voip boxes and are just as badHe was right. People who called in to shows on cell where just annoying.
Even today when I need to make an important call or something I may need to be on hold for a long time I call from my landline.
Phone calls have only gotten worse over time now that everyone uses cell. VoLTE is nice but doesn't do much for the reliability.
I guess my favorite boomer tech is ham radio. HF radio will never stop being magical to me.
yeah I've used ISDN lines in broadcasting up through... at least 2010 if not laterLandline ~ISDN audio~
That was really good, it sounded as good as radio so it was also used for remote guests in radio.
ISDN was fucking awesome and it is a shame it never really caught on in the USA for residential use. It was like having your own mini-T1 line. 2 dedicated 64kbps channels so you could have a phone call and internet on the same line. Broadcast loved it because it let them cheaply send reliable 128kbps stereo with out having to order a real T1 to the sites.Landline ~ISDN audio~
That was really good, it sounded as good as radio so it was also used for remote guests in radio.
The dedicated service you get from your ISP out of their gateway isn't that bad because they can QoS it. The 3rd party voip "vonage" type services suck if you don't get all up in your router and tweek things.last I saw even most "land lines" are voip boxes and are just as bad
And the latency! Quake had a ping in the 60's instead of 300's like normal modems. It was night and day.ISDN was fucking awesome and it is a shame it never really caught on in the USA for residential use. It was like having your own mini-T1 line. 2 dedicated 64kbps channels so you could have a phone call and internet on the same line. Broadcast loved it because it let them cheaply send reliable 128kbps stereo with out having to order a real T1 to the sites.
Yeah. My second monitor is 16:10 but the display is relatively small and the entire thing is kind of square-shaped. It fits in on the side of my desk very well.Don't you just love 4:3 or 5:4 aspect screens and how they just fit snugly into some corner and were nice to look at and just sorta blended in? I find these huge 16:9 screens people tend to have on their desks these days to be an eyesore. They just don't look good.
I constantly like to try out different things in my setup. Not always all experiments go well but it's basically never that I don't learn something, even if it's just that it doesn't work.Yeah. My second monitor is 16:10 but the display is relatively small and the entire thing is kind of square-shaped. It fits in on the side of my desk very well.
Briefly last summer I had my desktop behind my main monitor and a widescreen as a second display ontop of the desktop leaning down. I might try that again.I constantly like to try out different things in my setup. Not always all experiments go well but it's basically never that I don't learn something, even if it's just that it doesn't work.
I think I had a buddy who had something like that too. Did it have a drawing/painting game too? I remember going over to his house once when is parents were not there and we found it quite funny to draw penises on the screen. But then he kept drawing more penises and more penises long after the joke got old and eventually I found an excuse to go back home.So the other day I was having a conversation with my mom and for some reason she thought I had an apple computer as a kid. I didn't. I had one of these:
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Yea, they had a bunch of different games that came in cartridgesDid it have a drawing/painting game too?
insert gif from saving private ryan of the dude turning old hereThe ZX Spectrum just turned 40.