10 technological blasts from the past

A friend tweeted today about playing CONTRA on a now vintage Nintendo set.... Remember those back in the 90s????!!!??
 
Anyone remember faxes and fax machines? I laugh when someone asks me to fax them something. I can't help myself from asking them if they are aware that it's the 21st century.
 
The_Librarian said:
Got this, still working.

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Mine blew many years ago :( ALthough that led my parents to buying our first nes :D
 
Kosmik said:
Noone mentioned these?

http://www.google.co.za/imgres?q=re...1&tbnw=128&start=0&ndsp=50&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0
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I saw new viewmasters at a toy store the other day - they are still around!

At our office we have a commodore 64, A vic20 and a Apple2e - not for saleor swop though, sorry Jannievanzyl!

How about the Floppy disc, SS, SD or SS DD, or DS DD - if you know what that stands for, you have been around a while.
I actually still have an 8 inch floppy disc! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk
 
moklet said:
Can remember trying to load a game on my zx81 with a cassette tape it took about 15minutes of so if you were lucky and had no errors (guess i am giving away my age)
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You just reminded me of my Commodore 64.
In fact, there is a chance it may still be in a storage box in my garage. Wonder if it still works .....
 
Talking of Commodore, I used to remember playing the odd game at school on them and the cool thing was I used my atari joystick and had more options than other kids who didn't have.
 
PDAs never died out, they just transformed into smart phones. I had a Palm Tungsten T2 in 2003 and it was more than just a device for notes and calendars. You could play games and listen to music and it had a colour screen. My wife then got the Tungsten W which came with a keyboard and was a smart phone. I remember playing Scrabble via bluetooth between these two devices.

I then moved to the Palm Treo 600 and then 650 which were outstanding smartphones for their day.

Since then I've had the Samsung i600 Blackjack, the i900 Omnia and now the i9000 Galaxy S.

If you flash the Galaxy S there are 3 parts, the kernel, the phone driver called the modem and the software called the PDA. The PDA never died, everyone with a smartphone is using one.
 
I remember Floppy Disks and I hated those things. You lost data, just before you had to submit a project at Varsity...
I became so paranoid, I had back-ups of back-ups of back-ups. Then you had to synch all those back ups, man that was hectic.
 
XRayA4T said:
PDAs never died out, they just transformed into smart phones. I had a Palm Tungsten T2 in 2003 and it was more than just a device for notes and calendars. You could play games and listen to music and it had a colour screen. My wife then got the Tungsten W which came with a keyboard and was a smart phone. I remember playing Scrabble via bluetooth between these two devices.

I then moved to the Palm Treo 600 and then 650 which were outstanding smartphones for their day.

Since then I've had the Samsung i600 Blackjack, the i900 Omnia and now the i9000 Galaxy S.

If you flash the Galaxy S there are 3 parts, the kernel, the phone driver called the modem and the software called the PDA. The PDA never died, everyone with a smartphone is using one.
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Lol, I still got a palm III floating round somewhere.
 
I have a slide projector and lots of slides. Not so old but still works :)
 
I have a 8-bit NES clone hooked up to my 51" Samsung Plasma TV. Still play it at times and I am always on the look out for more cartridges. Paid R800+ for a used set of Rockman 1 to 6 imported from China :)
 
Electron1 said:
I actually still have an 8 inch floppy
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Well .. at 60 years old I qualify for the floppy ... but no way have I got 8 inches! :o

Back on topic.
I still have a ZX Spectrum computer somewhere, that used cassettes, via an external tape player
 
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XRayA4T said:
PDAs never died out, they just transformed into smart phones. I had a Palm Tungsten T2 in 2003 and it was more than just a device for notes and calendars. You could play games and listen to music and it had a colour screen. My wife then got the Tungsten W which came with a keyboard and was a smart phone. I remember playing Scrabble via bluetooth between these two devices.

I then moved to the Palm Treo 600 and then 650 which were outstanding smartphones for their day.

Since then I've had the Samsung i600 Blackjack, the i900 Omnia and now the i9000 Galaxy S.

If you flash the Galaxy S there are 3 parts, the kernel, the phone driver called the modem and the software called the PDA. The PDA never died, everyone with a smartphone is using one.
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I still got my old palm trio 650 and the battery is still good amazing old phone
That was my first smart phone
had the Fujitsu Siemens pocket PC then the Sony Ericsson X1
now galaxys2
 
just a heads up. there is an iphone/ipad app called imame. there are a few games listed in the app. it's free in itunes.
 
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