Thread 23533422

I can’t fathom growing up as a zoomer

>wood grain era
The 80s?

>>23533422 (OP)
I've seen over half of these things.
Old.

>>23533422 (OP)
used to like those station wagons with the wood strip. still looks better than most cars these days. my truck is from the 90s and mogs all the modern inflatable looking trucks that try to look all mean and cool and shit.

>>23533422 (OP)
very comfy style

>>23533422 (OP)
I haven't seen a "woody wagon" in forever, damn
We used to play that game where you'd punch each other whenever you saw one and screamed "WOODY WAGON"
Another variation was "punch bug" where you'd punch each other if you saw a VW Beetle

As a mature gentleman who knows what's what, I have no time for wood-grain contact paper. I need my computer cabinet made out of genuine walnut.

>>23533428
i prefer only the best adhesive backed veneer

>>23533424
over half of them are actually wood

>>23533422 (OP)
I currently own 3 of these objects

>>23533425
i always wanted a Buick Roadmaster

>woodgrain doesnt exist anymore
Okay this nostelgia bait depression scam is getting retarded

>>23533422 (OP)
I remember all of those things and had all of that except for the couch my grandma and aunt had one, never had the woody van but had a ford van that was pimped out with wood grain everywhere, custom plush seats, table, sink and a vacuum cleaner installed with custom overhead lighting and a cb radio.
>>23533432
lol I actually still have my dad’s old Buick roadmaster collectors edition

Just got this vcr in the mail, a truly epic woodgrain piece. Top has a sticker proudly proclaiming simulated woodgrain even. Weighs nearly 50 lbs, cast metal frame cost equivalent of thousands in 1980. Made by Sears!

>>23533435
some really good quality hifi equipment had wood or wood-look trim back in the 70s and 80s too.

>>23533422 (OP)
I have that alarm clock.

>>23533430
it's the era more than the grain, and yes many are.
>>23533433
Is it a scam though? Legit is true that even mass produced furniture from then, is far better quality than modern ikea composite wood, that is designed to barely be enough to hold itself together.
If furniture were a race, Jews would be particle board. Oy vey studies show that the goyim can stand just fine with 2 screws instead of 4, what a shekel savings we can make today before the markets close.
And it's not like the old furniture was some custom artisan piece that wasn't cut on an assembly line to begin with.

>>23533422 (OP)
Wood furniture was great, the shitty wood veneer panel bullshit was vile, besides on a Morris Minor

everything was just brown

>>23533441
and now every one is just brown

>>23533422 (OP)
What is needed to make nigs chimp out

>cut a food Gibson

To make a white to chimp out

>lock him, starve him, psychogically torture him, sleep deprive him, induced paranoia and anxiety using drugs, expose him to violent propaganda 18 hours per day

See? Same thing.

>>23533422 (OP)
I have a Fisher version of that entertainment center in my workshop, it was my grandparents and they got it in '93 with a stereo system i still have the tape deck and speakers from

>>23533440
>no atari shown
Fail

idk why I replied to the bong

I miss bulky TVs that were basically decorative furniture on their own

>>23533428
I almost ordered this case for my new build but kept to my old Fractal Design from 2014

>>23533435
Top load was far superior.

>>23533422 (OP)
I miss the tv that I used growing up, I almost destroyed it age 8 due to running around the house. Thankfully I regained consciousness and since have been bored to fucking tears for over 30 years at this point, I miss the plastic and wooden electronics, also all the analog electronics that were used in the place of electronic electronics as are used nowadays. You really don't get the same kind of society and it shows.

>>23533422 (OP)
VHS = 80s = gen x

op is a faggot, as usual

I’ve seen all those things in real life.

>>23533451
Zoomie VHS tapes were a thing up until early 2000’s when PlayStation 2 was able to play blu-ray dvd’s and there was actually a dvd war between blu-ray and HD dvd’s that Xbox played that you needed an additional Xbox device to play. Blu-ray finally won the dvd wars when Warner Brothers said they would only make their catalogue on blu-ray and the war was over and everything switched to blu-ray dvd’s…

>>23533445
G R A I N W A V E

>>23533451
Dumbfuck zoomer

>>23533453
i was still copying movies from tape to tape in about 1999-2000. didn't get into copying DVDs until a year or two later.

>>23533422 (OP)
Holy shit you are right

>>23533424
I've seen all of these things, anon

and what zoomers won't understand from the pic is the ever-present smell of cigarettes

>>23533435
Betamax was the competing (and superior) standard, but it lost out to VHS for a few, key reasons:

>The Betamax vs. VHS battle (1975–1980s) was a format war for home video dominance.Betamax (Sony, 1975): Superior picture quality, >sharper images, better sound, more compact cassettes, 1-hour initial recording time.
>VHS (JVC, 1976): Inferior quality but longer recording (2+ hours), cheaper hardware/licensing, aggressive marketing.

>Consumers prioritized longer recording for movies/TV and lower cost over quality. Porn industry adoption of VHS accelerated its ubiquity. >Sony conceded in 1988; Betamax faded by the 1990s.

>>23533435
>vcr
>beta
Got some bad news for you anon

this is the one

>>23533456
DVDr was $2 a disc here until like 2004. It was ridiculously too expensive to convert media onto dvd in the early 2000s. Meanwhile they sold CDrs by th spindle and you could get 50 for $5

>>23533459
yeah, most movies are :130-2:00hrs long so there it is.

>>23533428
I have this case, I love it.

>>23533449
Yeah, definitely very cool machines. Plan to watch a beta copy of this on my Sears beast after I tune it up. Amazingly bought a copy of the original Sears service manual in a thick binder with all the data to service it, imagine a time when stores had their own service department and manuals for their stuff.

>>23533422 (OP)
90s was the amish furniture era

>>23533456
Yeah VHS lasted for a while into early 2000’s and I misremembered that it was ps3 for blu ray which was actually 2006 but hey it was 20 years ago. But cd’s were burnable from like 2002. I just remembered that a ps3 was the best option for a game system because you could actually watch blu-ray DVD’s at the time when a standalone dvd player was $800-1000 for just a dvd player

>>23533422 (OP)
It was the best of times. It was the comfiest of times.

OP where did you get these pictures of my mom's mini van, our VHS collection, and home entertainment armoir? No, seriously, that shit is literally my childhood.

>>23533463
>most movies are :130-2:00hrs long
Yep, Leafbro.
The origin of that paradigm is interesting in itself, too..

>~100 minutes is the optimized convergence of film physics, theater throughput, audience psychology, and distribution media—not arbitrary, but engineered.

>>23533428
fractal design makes great cases

hmmm wood

>>23533422 (OP)
my family 100 percent had that hexagonal end table and I remember getting inside of it as a little kid

>>23533467
>. But cd’s were burnable from like 2002
i got into that in probably 1997-98, copying PS1 games and compressing dvd movies to DIVX etc. really liking the 264/265 stuff these days lol. ah the good old days of stripping DVDs of all the menus and shit to maximize video quality.....

>>23533427
punch buggy blue!
you had to call out the color too

The VHS cabinet is choice

I love laserline CD holders as well

>>23533422 (OP)
most of these were also really bad quality

>>23533428
Looks very nice and it isn't even that expensive here if it's the same material.. This would look great with a woodmaxxing furniture.

Fuck I miss the 90s

>>23533435
>Betavision

>>23533422 (OP)
you can go to any furniture store now and buy wooden tables and wooden bookshelves

>>23533435
>>23533449
Video about the same Sears Betavision someone made. Such a beast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH3338EDYEI

>>23533422 (OP)

The stainless and black everything look was a soulless move from this time period.

>>23533465

Ive been thinking about getting some beta stuff to compare to my vhs versions lately.
Maybe when i got a few bucks to mess with.

>>23533422 (OP)
everything but the entertainment cabinet is top tier

>>23533422 (OP)
I MISS MY GRANDPARENT'S COUCH.

>>23533465
Dude, i broke out my old VCR (not woodgrain unfortunately) and my old CRT TV (def woodgrain!) to watch my old RoboTech videos i made recording off SciFi channel (when it was "SciFi") the TV when I was a kid. I only wish i had kept the commericals and station breaks. At the time, I would pause it at commercial, then start recording again as soon as the show started, but now i kinda wish I had recorded them too for the whole experience.

>>23533438
we what?

>>23533422 (OP)
If you don't have fake wood on your alarm clock, I pity you.

>>23533486
SciFi Channel Saturday Anime was the best! So many great anime I saw on there for the first time from Project A ko to Akira.

>>23533481
i miss wood interior trims in cars. all the cheap plastic gives me the ick

>>23533422 (OP)
I recognize that alarm clock and hexagonal side cabinet.

>>23533435
>>23533436
>>23533460


My dad had one like that, weiged 50lbs and could only play VX tapes (not even VHS)
the japs did a good job with the tech back then

>>23533422 (OP)
We had that exact sofa. After it fell out of fashion it was moved to the garage where we also had a pool table. My first blowjob was on that sofa, inb4 “how long did it take the guy to cum.”

>>23533422 (OP)
ive owned ALL those items. still have a few.

>>23533461
It's back.

>>23533424
>>23533458
I remember going out to eat at a local Italian restaurant with my grandma that still had a smoking section. The smell of food + cigarettes is hard to describe

>>23533496
sovlless

>>23533498
The white looks a little better.

>>23533422 (OP)
My parents had that VHS cabinet and entertainment center.

>>23533428
Where does the dvd go in this thing?

>>23533493
VX...now that's obscure. What a weird beast..the "Great Time Machine".

>>23533422 (OP)
You were the fall, existing on the fumes of a prior generation.
Architecture was barren offices.
The moon landings ran on WW2 tech and former Nazis.
Just consume and have sex, and do drugs. That was your generation and it was a pride in a very shallow amount of knowledge, arts and sciences.
We’re picking up the pieces.
SpaceX launches Starship for 1/20th the cost of NASA SLS.
Jam is 75% of the cost it was in the 80s at Aldi’s.
Ornate buildings and cast iron and aluminum street lamps and grand civic buildings are making a comeback.
Temple style wardrobes.
Many words use at their highest since 1935.

>>23533502
And I just notice how literally everything in that pic is woodgrain, lol

>>23533462
yeah i remember that. was always backing stuff up because smol HDD and 56kbs modem

>>23533422 (OP)
They need to bring wood panels back on vehicles

>>23533422 (OP)
Still got plenty of wood grain in my home. 1983 Amana microwave oven.

>>23533445
I have Heavy Sixer 2600 and it's beautiful. An Intellivision too, plenty of woodgrain there as well.

>>23533507
Vintage Mr. Coffee (brews in less than 2 minutes).

>>23533507
Those are great! I have a 1983 Montgomery Ward microwave and it's woodgrain too and soo well made - the door is real glass and a solid metal frame. Those Amana's are the best.

>>23533509
70s or possibly early 80s toaster. Better than anything made in China.

>>23533422 (OP)
That pentagon thing is in my moms house and that alarm clock I got from my dead grandmother and it died in 2020.

>>23533423
yep. Even into the early 90's as 'open concept' everything started to become really popular. You had a mix of the wooden TV stand with the plasma tv that barely fits on it. You would have a wooden VHS case with the blue walls and the high ceilings. It was stuff like that.

>>23533511
I've got another made in Canada. I forget the company, but it was made in the mid 80s. Saved it from being thrown out. Currently safe in a storage room, just waiting to give it a good home someday.

>>23533507
We still have almost this one at the cabin, stainless steel though.

We had the van, the alarm clock and the vhs holder.

>>23533424
shut the fuck up zoomer

>>23533510
thats nice. i picked up a set of A200 speakers with a light wood finish. looks classy

>>23533515
Probably Beaumark. Could be Inglis.

>>23533422 (OP)
They don't make furniture like that anymore unless you're a richfag and buy it from an artisan who will build the pieces to your measures.
Back in the 90s and before that quality was the norm for the average medium class.

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS NEW CAPTCHA YOU GOOK NIGGER

>>23533516
Mine was actually in a vacation cabin several states away. The cost of the microwave along with shipping was over $500. Worth every penny.

>>23533422 (OP)
Damn im old

>>23533520
Just checked. It says Litton Moffat.

>>23533524
Hm never heard of that one.

>>23533422 (OP)
It doesn't really matter when you grew up. Hedonistic treadmill. Boomers, look around, the most prosperous generation of all, and they have a huge stick up their ass.

>>23533423
Go home zoomer

>>23533521
I'm lucky to have one of those heavy wood frame chairs with the similar pattern pillow, came from my grandparents place.

>>23533487
underrated

>>23533422 (OP)
Pathetic. The OGs were made with real wood. Couldn’t make these today because lazy millennials and zoomers would neglect to put a new coat of stain on every year.

>>23533502
>>23533504
Nice pic. I hadnt seen that one before.
A few years ago I did a full restoration on it, It needed new belts, new caps, the works.

It plays okay now, but the quality isnt much better than VHS lol

>>23533525
I couldn't even find my model online, but this is pretty close.

>>23533428
>not using genuine cherry walnut
Yikes. NGMI.

>>23533531
That's really cool - that era of VCR construction is so mechanically solid with all that cast metal. My Betavision also uses one huge synchronous motor like that to drive everything. That pic of the Quasar store kiosk was found on the site of the furniture maker that built it in their portfolio, knew it was a rare image when I saved it.

>>23533534
I'm saving that one. I kind of admire how they tried to call "time-shift recordings" as a fancy way of saying 'tape it now and watch it later" as if to avoid anyone legally getting pissed about the implications of it,

My dad had alot of wood grain stuff from the 80s that I inherited. Some of it was lost some of it I still keep around

>>23533422 (OP)
The full speed downwards era, they started selling the cheapest flimsiest crap when this fad was a thing.

>>23533428
Sovl

>>23533535
the tapes were massive too

>>23533428
lol i knew /pol/ would love this when i bought it

>>23533535
There were a lot of legal challenges by the studios to home video recording back then definitely.

I've got a similar one of those projection TVs, a Sony Videoscope KP5040 with motorized mirror and stereo sound, composite in, still has a receipt from 1983 even in the manual for $3300. Lots of woodgrain. Mine is just like this pic, was crazy it worked perfect after finding it for 20 bucks at an auction.

>>23533422 (OP)
baka, missing the varnished wood grain paneling that shit was everywhere.

>>23533422 (OP)
So fucking comfy like the basement of someone’s country lodge with the sliding glass door to the forest and comfy fireplace and that furniture smell before IKEA took over and watching the Star Wars movie for the first time in their entirety that you solidly remember, then watching an Ernest movie while eating a chewy bar.

>>23533526
>Hedonistic treadmill. Boomers, look around, the most prosperous generation of all, and they have a huge stick up their ass.

First hedonistic treadmill?

>>23533440
Wood furniture is still great NIGGER

>>23533509
Looks nice but it's also boiling water touching BPA plasticpilled

>>23533541
I like that a lot. Shame that you needed near-dark settings to really see the picture (its basicall a projector screen) but I appreciate what they tried to do. Im glad yours still works. the covergence went out on my dad's and after 2 weeks of trying to fix it (with 12 separate adjustment knobs) i called it quits.
This one had video.stereo in jacks and 8ohm speaker out jacks, as well. my dad used it as a our main TV until 1993 when he upgraded to rear projection

fun fact: i stuck my face into those giant lenses to see the colors when i was a little kid and that probably explains a lot about my eyesight now lol

>>23533547
the innards

>>23533531
The priceless service manual I found for my Sears Betavision. Has all the scope waveforms, flowcharts, mechanical diagrams. Not scanned or online, Sears really supported their stuff.

>>23533530
Imagine 2 of these things getting into a crash, everyone would be completely annihilated, crushed, dismembered Sinaloa Cartel style and full of splinters.

>>23533549
And yes, the cover is woodgrain !

>>23533538
>rewind meter printed on

>>23533530
that looks like dogshit that should stay back in the 1800s where it belongs. good riddance

>>23533422 (OP)
>IS THAT WOODIGER AERO AESTHETIC? I WAS BORN IN THE WRONG ERA. REMEMBER THE FUTURE THAT THEY STOLE FROM YOU

>>23533549
>>23533551
hell yeah. keep that around man. I had to buy a scanned version of mine to fix my VCR, but it has all the waveforms and shit needed to diagonos and repair, and it actually helped alot.

>>23533555
Lol once upon a time
>just start a business
Meant renting cheap commercial space buying a few tools with a simple loan from the bank, and using corporate produced manuals at their expense to add value to products to convince people to purchase them.

The hustle rat race and luck involved with “just start a business” today is insane

>>23533546
You're not wrong, but I rarely use it. I generally make Cortado with a stovetop espresso maker (made in Italy).

>>23533555
Really cool you got all the data on the Great Time Machine!

>>23533458
I still get an erection from random encounters with stale cigarette odors. The mind is a terrible thing.

>>23533550
What a Jewish thing to say.

>>23533559
I noticed now on YT there is a ton more information about them. For years nobody knew about this thing except a few old boomers. I was in the dark even in 2018 when i started the restoration project. now its pretty well known.

I still get ebay alerts when VX machines pop up on ebay, and for some reason they are all going for $500+ in untested condition. they are a PITA to fix, and not worth it IMO unless you have some super rare video you need saved.

>boomers destroyed all of this just to give some more money to india and china

boomers arent just the worst generation in human history

they are the worst thing that happened to concept of life itself

>>23533562
in case anyone was wondering this is what a typical VX tape quality looked like.

whatever happend to car interiors featuring wood trim? back in the days you could even get a shitbox with wood trim, now only rolls royce or some bentley can get it for you and even then its an option. its always the fake carbon and gloss black that gets used today. piano black isnt that bad i kind alike it , but fake carbon is heresy and I WANT MY WOOD BACK

Most of the furniture in my room is wood but I've never been into wood panel tech t. zoomer

>>23533562
Yeah, VX sounds like a labor of love and having one is cool too when you find rare off the air recordings with old TV and ads from the 70s, that stuff is so ephemeral that those moments in TV time are often down to one tape in the world and lost otherwise.

>>23533487
N

>>23533558
What a device. What espresso maker is that?

>>23533503
My God
That fucking Green
what is it...

>>23533561
Old cars were incredibly unsafe anon. So much goes into making cars that are more collision, fire, etc. safe today.

>>23533569
Came in a box exactly like this.

>>23533571
At the same time, the poors would prefer a cheap, reliable shitbox without the electronics.

>>23533570
Looks like the "Will look like fake patina'd copper in a few years" green.

>>23533422 (OP)
I work for a company that has been around since the 70s. Our server room is 6 baby blue racks with wood strip panels all over them. I thought they were tacky at first but they grew on me and remind me of less jewish but still corrupted times.

>>23533475
A Caucasian cannuck! I thought you'd gone extinct with John Candy

>>23533576
Hahaha. Honestly we more or less have. Small town Saskatchewan stays surprisingly white, simply because it's such a boring place nobody wants to live here.
Saskatoon is a no-go zone, though. Niggers everywhere.

>>23533428
>searches waxed canvas

>>23533472
Heh I'd like to hit that dog with axe and cook his delicious steaks in that camp fire. Put on fire noodle sauce and you have delicious meal.

>>23533422 (OP)
I'm not supposed to have experienced this era, but thanks to poorfags living one decade in the past due to not being able to afford new shit and thrift storing absolutely everything, i have. If you were poor, this is what the 90s and early 00s looked like. I just want people to remember that. I can only echo everything said here. It was great stuff and the last gasp of quality mass market furniture. Then Ikea showed up and the market split into absolute garbage and ultra luxury with no middle ground.

>>23533423
70''s is when it was really popular. We even had wood grained paneling inside the house.

>>23533435
Thats not a VCR, Its a Betamax. There isnt a very large selection of movies for those because VHS players won the contest and Beta went out of business.

>>23533548
Those rings around the tubes are also for convergence adjustments anon, and are usually adjusted in pairs.

>>23533422 (OP)
Literally had every one of op
Insane

>>23533438
heh
That shit is ugly but its tough. You jump on top of it and it wont break.

>>23533422 (OP)
Im a zoomer and Ive seen all of this shit

>>23533425
My dad had the wood strip station wagon.
We also had a VCR

>>23533428
>Nuts
Heh

>>23533530
>humid day
>can't drive anywhere since the door's stuck closed
>cold day
>door doesn't close properly so you freeze your ass off
>bleaches in the sun
No thanks bro.

It does look very cool though.

>>23533582
VCR - Video Cassette Recorder. Beta is a video cassette, ergo it's a VCR.

>>23533422 (OP)
>its a minivan clan
uh oh, savages inc

>>23533423
70s and 80s. For a while every basement had fake wood paneling and shag carpet. Max comfy.

>>23533428
it.. retvrns.. *vomits*
I actually own one of these
I wish I went mini atx, or I'll be taking my graphics card with me to it soon

>>23533422 (OP)
Poor White trash Gen Z definitely had all of that. All of that was hand-me-downs from Grandma/Grandpa to our parents when they moved into a house. That's what poor white trash families did in the late 90s/00s

>>23533490
>>23533493
>>23533532
I'm begging you guys to please stop this thread, it's causing me physical distress

I have that same alarm clock in my bedroom. It was really build to last!

>>23533422 (OP)
What are non-wooden shelves made of?

>>23533458
The smell of stale cigarette smoke always makes me nostalgic for my childhood

>>23533558
I used to have that exact same cappuccino maker.

>>23533569
There's also a milk steamer attached.

>>23533422 (OP)
maybe you guys dont know but you can still buy wood grain contact paper and cover all your stuff in it
>>23533435
like this

>>23533501
DVD tech is gone and all of the ports are on the top now
The tiny number of users who want DVDs on a modern PC are expected to use a USB adapter

Sorry, can't find a better picture but this was my first TV! Bought for a grand total of 5 Euro at a flea market for the benefit of the local volunteer fire department. Pristine condition, worked marvelously. Check out the archaic remote! For us Austrians this was the first generation of TV offering both color and a remote. Made in Vienna by the hilariously named Hornyphon company back in the Austrosocialist era when we still made our own stuff. Yes, it was a 4:3, "Standard Definition" analog job with vacuum tubes a tiny screen compared to today and needed a minute or two to get warm after firing it up before the picture got clear, i don't have rose colored glasses about it but this was a solid product. I don't have it anymore but it stayed in the family and still works. It'll be 50 years next year.

>>23533514
I remember well laughing at all the particle board with wood print stickers covering it. It was an epidemic. Half the furniture in my house was like this.

>>23533602
contact paper is not veneer retard

>>23533596
Is it bringing back terrible memories of your childhood? I bet you can smell the cigarette smoke and the hacking cough of your nasty grandmother.
I know I can.

>>23533428
this looks like crap, soulless it tries to emulate the wooden aesthetic of older tech covers but fails utterly as the bugchild is ordered to put on the GWAILO WAN WOOD STYR GWAILO NOSTARGIC GWAILO WAN 80S AGAAAIN
youre a FAGGOT and GAY

after searching "woody beaver" and then "woody beaver car" i saw two depressing results

woody beaver is just erased from memory according to google.

woody beaver + car came up with results telling us its derivative of punch buggy and gave a dismal description

AI is fake and gay and cenosred and the words "woody" and "beaver" are both considered problematic so they censor the results when you look up the meaning

in the 90s if you saw some van or station wagon with wood paneling you would punch the nearest person and say "woody beaver!"

just like "punch buggy"

and also "pidittle"

this is american culture and if you aren't teaching your children these games you deserve what china has coming for you

>>23533603
Mine's still got space for 5.25" drives. It's a Fractal XL something or other.

>>23533507
Do you have any hair left on your body?

My bedroom is one big fire hazard but I can fit so many fat chicks on this bed without worry because it's solid wood. Even these bolts are like 20 cm long with a shear strength greater than the titanic.

>>23533458
I remember being a kid eating at Carl's Jr in California and my parents smoking inside after the meal. so very old.

>>23533604
>i don't have rose colored glasses about it but this was a solid product.
I've found that TVs are one of the things that still last a reasonable amount of time. The problem is that the technology moves too quickly (HD to UHD etc.), and the online bits aren't supported for very long.

>>23533600
I actually bought mine after seeing one used in a Canadian movie. I was curious about making my own steamed milk.

>>23533609
Now just think of all the retards who let google do all their thinking for them BEFORE the advent of abominable intelligence. It's only gotten worse after.

>>23533611
I use it for food maybe 6 times per year.

>>23533422 (OP)
I know someone who used to own literally everything in that picture. I own that end table, I use it as a night stand. WTF

>>23533422 (OP)
Wood grain car will always be funny to me. I also wanted one ever since I've seen one.

>>23533422 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSa_AAsMFgA

>>23533422 (OP)
Wood grain like this was extremely popular into the early 00s. You can tell from the interior trim and doors if you just look up houses built in that time period. Older zoomers definitely grew up in the wood grain era.
>>23533448
The problem with Fractal cases is there's no reason to get rid of them so they take up space in storage after the fact. I did recently find a use for a monstrous old Define S though.

>>23533540
good choice

>>23533422 (OP)
>20 y/o brother
>graduated university, predictable waste of time, only works dead end min wage jobs. Lives with mum
>12 y/o cousins
>on their playstation 12 hours a day
>when not on the playstation they're on tiktok
>always ordering mcdonalds
>fat
All three of them are a microcosm of the future of young people.

>>23533422 (OP)
I owned that clock and that two drawer cassette thing.
I found it last year.
Had a Cars tape in it. Heartbeat City.

>>23533490
this is like comfy clutter aesthetic

>>23533548
CRT RGB projectors are fucking wild man. a bitch to setup convergence but they do produce a pretty good picture once you get it set up. some even could do "HD".

>>23533422 (OP)
>>23533423
This was Mexico in the 2000s somehow. The 2010s fucked up everything worldwide.

>>23533562
Are those your tapes?

>>23533422 (OP)
Homes that looked like that smelled weird when I went in them as a kid.

>>23533450
>electronic electronics

>>23533582
I think both the betamax and the VHS were VCR. A common mistake even back then.

>>23533572
Damn. That's cool.

>>23533422 (OP)
you know that shit smelled like cigarettes

>>23533539
Very true.

>>23533539
I Funko popped your mom’s fart box last night kid, nothing personal.

>>23533564
Looks comparable to VHS. Looks to be about 240p.

>>23533637
Yeah, if that's off his restored VX deck I definitely say congrats, especially after seeing the trouble VX gives other hobbyists.

>>23533422 (OP)
zam my parents had that same exact van, side table and entertainment center LMAO

>>23533638
For sure. Also, I badly want to watch those tapes.

>>23533438
fkn lmao

>>23533535
Used to watch kino with one of those projector TVs with my best friend. First time I saw Dune.

>>23533422 (OP)
Kek. I never understood why Americans like a WG on their cars.

>>23533422 (OP)
That alarm clock is god tier. No one was late for work until post Iraq invasion. 2005 it all went to shit. Computers become common in the workforce and everyone got lazy. The internet was a mistake.

>>23533643
*Panel

>>23533422 (OP)
I actually have one of those fucking clocks.

it still works.

>>23533472
Suddenly I want to play minecraft

>>23533422 (OP)
My house had literally every one of those items but the couch.

>>23533646
I have a Radio Shack (Realistic) one that is very similar, still works very well.

>>23533541
>
imagine millions of these crushed and buried under dirt somewhere in some shithole country

>>23533579
Wood hands typed this

>>23533507
My parents had this exact microwave
It was awesome

>>23533539
Bro is done.

>>23533607
>Is it bringing back terrible memories of your childhood? I bet you can smell the cigarette smoke and the hacking cough of your nasty grandmother.
>I know I can.
same

>>23533496
vile

>>23533422 (OP)
Hell yea

>>23533654
We know that niggers wouldn't be seen dead around anything like this, being it back 14/88

>>23533579
Brown detected

>>23533612
>Can't into mortise and through tenon. Ngmi

>>23533483
Checked, and now everything is shitty Apple white or pastel plastic.
>>23533465
Remember the Right Stuf mail order catalog with horrible VHS dubbing and censored hentai?

>>23533423
70s. Those things were just so sturdy that they lasted well in to 80s until the early 90s.
Only as Gen Xs and later Millenials started to move out and build their own homes is that this aesthetic started to fade away.
You probably can still experience it if you go to some boomer's home who hasn't done any kind of renovation and cleaning up.

>>23533512
I have that same toaster. Paid $5 for it at the thrift store.

>>23533428
I had this for one day. Assembled the PC, accidentally knocked it over, the pins in the cpu got fucked up, returned everything.

>>23533422 (OP)
Why couldn't we just enjoy what we had for a bit longer. FFS people lived with shit like a horse buggies for centuries and I barely got comfy with my VCR.

>>23533614
Depends. Some friends of mine bought noname chink shit and had theirs emit a could of vile smelling smoke and die without warning about a month after the warranty expired. But that's asking for it really. They say Chinamen in China who know their own shit buy TCL or Hisense these days and those are supposed to be better. Who knows if that is true. I've had my LG for a decade now and so far it's fine. Support in the way of major updates does seem to have stopped long ago but every feature i want to use still works so i don't really care. Once it croaks i'm gonna move to a "dumb" monitor, speakers and some kind of plug in box to DIY my own ShartTV. One of my old friends is the sort who likes doing projects of that sort and i like what i see in his home. It's the kind of thing that gives women the ick but i can't be arsed to care. The advantages seem well worth it to me. As for old tube TVs i wouldn't run them anymore these days. Electricity prices have made that a godawful idea. I used not to care in the 00s when it was cheap, but now... forget about it. It's the worst with appliances. The old ones eat power like an old Cadillac does fuel but the new, efficient ones break after just a few years. Had a stove from the 70s and an industrial washing machine from the 80s (that didn't change much from the 50s model) out of classifieds sites circa 2010-2015 and those could be repaired forever. Not even a circuit board, just anvil simple switches, wires, fuses, motors. But the power bill these days makes it a luxury to keep using that stuff. Sad really. We're increasingly running out of road, you just can't win anymore no matter what, the game is rigged.

>>23533520
Same Inglis that made the 9mm Hi-Power?

>>23533539
You have to be 18 to post here and you have to be White to be allowed to live

>>23533596
That feeling is the pain in your soul from knowing that a better world once existed and can potentially come back. But it won't be easy. Just be glad you have enough White ancestry to be aware.

>>23533658
The SOVL of the White man's world will always drive the lesser subhumans to fits of ape rage. It is a mirror held up to their own inferiority like the shield of Perseus.

>>23533665
Actual, literal, unironic vampires that feed off of our suffering

>>23533628
yeah, unfortunately not many of them still play

>>23533672
Is that Al Capone’s vault on the TV?

>>23533640
>>23533638

I have about a dozen tapes digitized, but all at massive file sizes.

Sadly many of them were in a water logged basement and are stuck together or shed like crazy after one playback

Most of the content is early to mid 80s chicago TV stations

>>23533670
Okay fed

>>23533673
yeah my dad taped it live back in the day lol shame about geraldo's career

>>23533666
>chink shit
Sony and Philips TVs have served me well, spending a bit more on decent models from a decent brand pays for itself in the long run.
>i'm gonna move to a "dumb" monitor
That's all I need, but I couldn't find any of a decent size. I don't watch much traditional TV any more, but when I did, I used TV tuner cards in a computer. I've now got a Sony google TV, with access to thousands of apps that I don't use, the first thing I did was replace the launcher with something more basic, even switching to the auxiliary inputs seems to be done by an app rather than a direct connection between input and screen.
>plug in box
You can get TV tuners for a raspberry pi.
https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-tvheadend/

>>23533560
me too lol. but mine was from incest

>>23533676
but when the tapes DID work you got decent quality, very close to VHS, and it was made by the same parent company anyways (matsushita backed and funded JVC's work into vhs). some speculate the VX machine was made as a sacrifice to get a foot into the american market before debuting the VHS standard a few years later

>>23533423
This existed in the 90s. Everyone had the same oak furniture. Just about everyone has that saloon table with the leaf in the middle and those cowboy style chairs with the engraved faces on them. Also, stereo speakers to the floor with wood casings.

>>23533679
>>23533673

video clip I uploaded here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UXdnss93_Q

>>23533674
An anon posted in another thread about this woman:
https://recorderfilm.com/

>>23533676
lmao i literally watched that live with my parents back in the day
wtf are these new captchas btw

>>23533656
Have an SX-980, next model up from that. A beast!

>>23533661
Have a few of those old Right Stuf catalogs, they were useful references when info on anime was sparse.

>>23533465
>imagine a time when stores had their own service department and manuals for their stuff.
lol yeah i asked a nigger working @ staples the other day for a corded keyboard and she had to call somebody

>>23533427
>>23533475
We played a nighttime version called pididdle. When you saw a car with only one working headlight, you yelled out "pididdle" before hitting your seatmate.

>>23533438
Based cursive. I was flabbegasted when I learned they haven't taught that in school for like 20 years now and it's now basically a secret language.

>>23533686
Ain't heard of that one. Funny though.

>520151380
Bot malfunction

>>23533644
The internet was fine. Giving thirdies dem new sailfoams was a mistake.

>>23533684
I wonder if it's even possible to find some of those old series anymore. Including the H series

>>23533676
>>23533681
I don’t remember what year it was, but I was so excited about this. I was watching it live, and then nothing. I was very disappointed. I watched your clip after starting my reply, 1986 damn. Thanks for posting the clip.

>>23533689
Cope.
Wypipo hijacked the Schumann resonance and destroyed the planet

>>23533422 (OP)
It’s like a 70’s version of Trump aesthetic. Except it made more sense in the 70’s than when Trump does it now.

The Radio Shack version of the Intellivision was great - they looked at the INTV and said "not enough woodgrain!" and put two more woodgrain panels on the top than the original.

>>23533423
Wood grain and veneer have been around for as long as people needed furniture. The 70’s peaked with that dark fake carved wood referred to as Spanish or Mediterranean style. Fucking ugly, pressed wood and plastic carving. Velvet like material in gold green or orange. Station wagons featured fake wood panels.

>>23533422 (OP)
I still have a lot of those shelves that has VHS movies on it, one of them actually has old VHS movies on it. I also have a VHS in my closet and a polaroid camera. My TV is on a shelf like that one except mine has glass doors for whatever you want to put in there on the top. All the furniture were hand-me-downs.

>>23533697
I'm an early zoomer, for the record.

>>23533698
Ew.

>>23533694
That minivan is from the early 90's

god bless...

>>23533422 (OP)
look what was taken from you

why did mods wait so long to move this

>>23533776
i no think too...

>>23533422 (OP)
Wooden furnitures still exist you know

>>23533776
Because/pol/ is a cesspool of bots, twitter screenshots, dailymail advertisements, streamer PR teams, and a few generals full of delusional trannies on both sides. This kind of thread is what old /b/ used to look like before kikes spammed it with BBC porn 24/7 forcing/b/tards to flee to /pol/ with its stricter porn posting. /bant/ is just sloppy seconds of the few good threads that cut through /pol/ shitposts once in a while but it will never be like /b/ before the endless summerfags ruined it.

>>23533674
I was wondering about what Superman was in content exactly, same with Star Wars, but sounds like they might not work or don't.
Early 80s content interests me the most.

>>23534183
The star wars tape was just a VHS copy from one of the CBS/FOX tapes. I thought it mightve been the rare pay per view release of it but I guess not

>>23533839
do you have any?
i haven't seen any in awhile, though my family did become poor and isolated

>>23534214
>I thought it mightve been the rare pay per view release of it but I guess not

That's where my mind was dancing off to as well. Oh well. I appreciate you fixing that old tech, though. I've never even heard of VX tapes or players until this thread.

>>23534237
i know man, i was hoping for some rare find, and maybe there was something that one one of the tapes that were water damaged beyond repair. From what I could digitize most of it was TV shows and movies from chicago's WGN channel in the mid 80s, like 84-88
which i find odd because i KNOW my dad had an actual VHS player by 1985 (we still have it lol) so Im boggled why he was recording with this old unit still
maybe he had two TVs and was recording two channels at the same time in different rooms?

>>23534257
Maybe your dad's VHS player was in the shop at the time? Another question is, are you quite sure there's nothing you can do for the tape, or are they sludge? You mentioned shedding.

>>23534263
basically they're really stuck together due to being in a humid wet basement for months and not being attended to. and the motor in the unit is set to auto-stop if it detects resistance. so with the stickyness of the tape the player wont go

I did a tedius experiment of unrolling about 100' of tape manually and re-rolling it loosely, and that did help. but i cant imagine doing it to 1000+ feet. There is also mold/buildup on the tape itself which causes the head to clog up fast.luckily the head is removable to clean, but its risky trying not to damage the little heads.

I heard of 'tape baking' but i dont know if i can trust my kitchen oven to do it without melting the plastic spools


I mean do you know anything about how video heads work? could you tell me in that webm if that distortion is due to the tape itself or if the VTR is causing the glitches?

>>23534281
>I heard of 'tape baking' but i dont know if i can trust my kitchen oven to do it without melting the plastic spools

You could take it apart, but of course that's easier said than done.

>I mean do you know anything about how video heads work?

No, I'm sorry I don't. Nothing advanced. Now that I think of it I do know one thing that might help. Back around 1991 I had played my CBS/FOX TESB tape so much in the spot where the Imperials are first introduced (to hear that music over and over) that it got somewhat like that spot in your Batman webm. So what I did was simply lift the lid shield or whatever it's called on the tape and carefully manually stretched the tape (yeah I know) and it helped. Now it isn't perfect, but it's much better than what I previously did to it.

*maybe there's a type of tape stabilizer out there because obviously you don't wanna pull on brittle tape. It's a toughy. Sorry I can't be more help.

>>23534281
fucking 2mb webm limit. i need to find a way to record webms that arent so big

another example of how the picture comes in clear for a few seconds then gets fuzzy then vice versa

>>23534330
>@8 seconds
"I'LL SWALLOW YOUR SOUL!"

>>23534324
I have taken them apart, its a pain in the ass but doable. hmm so maybe the tape is too loose which is why its like that. very possble since the belts on this thing dont grip like they used to.

I started working on this pre-covid and im glad i did, i contacted an old guy on the west coast who had a ton of old belts and i sent him mine from this unit and he matched them up and got me going. Im gonna guess he's either retired or dead now.

here what it looks like if i take the top of the tape off (it actually plays inside the unit with some finageling)

if VX tapes on ebay werent so damn expensive i would buy a pre-recorded one from someone else and see how it plays in my unit to see if its just shitty tapes or if the unit is still not working correctly.

>2mb file upload limit
jesus. i cant upload shit without having to scale down all my photos

>>23534346
Anon, I'm looking around and it's claimed in the searches that there's a "VHS-C adapter" that can play VX tapes a VHS player. Maybe that can help a bit.
That's too bad about your old guy contact. Godspeed to him.

*in a
My thinking is that if you don't have to worry about how it's played, you can focus on the tape itself.

Eh, after looking more, I think the search is fugged. I think the VHS-C is a smaller tape. Sorry, but the principle is sound. You just need the reverse. The most frustrating thing is that in my town, there's a business that can do it I'm sure. They'd thread it over a huge machine that I've seen. You need a business like that, anon.

>>23534346
At any rate, I get a warm fuzzy knowing that anons like you are out there fixing the older lost tech. Tinkering can be fun and rewarding. I do my part, but it's not the same.
-t. greased the drive chain on my Laserdisc's player's swiveling optical pickup.

good thread :o
i have a small hoard of older tech, nothing too rare or magnificent but some of it very nice
i spent 3 or 4 hours cleaning an old sony radio/sound system from my grandma's storage unit, had to undo & redo a bunch of electrical connections
one of the buttons on the cassette player was split in two pieces, so i used jb weld and reinstalled it
thing works great, i listen to old CDs on it sometimes

>>23534407
appreciate the help man, yeah VHS-C is just a smaller version of VHS that only does 30 mins instead of 2hours. Someday Ill get back to workng on this and seeing what else is on all those tapes

heres a fun little thing a 1970s cap against a 2020s cap. same power values lol

>>23534432
The Chad 70s Spacer Taker Vs. The Virgin Capacitor

Chad:
>doesn't know he's leaking
>seems to magically charge if left alone

Virgin:
>Takes up less space like a girl
>won't work if you drop it once

>>23534421
>i spent 3 or 4 hours cleaning an old sony radio/sound system from my grandma's storage unit, had to undo & redo a bunch of electrical connections
>one of the buttons on the cassette player was split in two pieces, so i used jb weld and reinstalled it
>thing works great, i listen to old CDs on it sometimes

You're doing God's work, anon.
Feels good to know there's still some electronic soul out there being kept alive.

keepin the thread alive

>>23535440
Based and good morning.

>>23535568
just realized thread hit its bump limit so its doing to die no matter what.
good speaking with you anon

>>23535573
Same, we'll no doubt chat again in a similar thread.