Thread 106352752

Post old and interesting tech. Could be computers, radios, televisions, basically anything old and electric.

Starting with the Sony FX-300 Jackal. It was a Japanese market all in one CRT TV, cassette player/recorder, and an AM/FM radio.

Next the NEC UltraLite. It was an MS-DOS portable "notebook" laptop released in 1988 that was able to run MS-DOS while still being portable. The downside? It couldn't retain data for more than a week without being plugged in. It had no hard drive and completely relied on floppy or NEC's proprietary connector for special storage cards.

>>106352891
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZh2vTX2d8g

Did you know they still make brand new dot matrix printers?

>>106353024
Doesn't surprise me, I still see monochrome monitors and 56k modems still being used in the wild

>>106353061
>>106353104
>no yellow dots (I know you can be tracked as the single retard using it for normal stuff)
>cheap ink (apparently a tape lasts months of industrial scale operation)
>dunno if they changed, but had no hostile stuff like phoning home and scanning my cunny prints to send to the glowies

>>106353124
Yeah, what could the drawback of dot matrix printing possibly be, I wonder..
I've got an A3 dot matrix somewhere, yuge beast of a machine. Just looked up the specs, does 9 part (so up to 9 CC's simultaneous) and 600 pages p/h. Still no fucking idea why anyone would need one that size tho.

>>106353363
>A3
Probably engineering.

I know that the resolution isn't all that great, but for simple text you don't need magazine quality. I wouldn't mind handing out college papers printed on that and getting weird looks, except now it's all PDF.

>>106352911
Is this a baudot keyboard?

>>106352752 (OP)
Meh, no weather/airband radio

This is just cassete-futurism

Advertising boasts an "Electric Eye" (the selenium meter,) so I guess that counts.

Partial roll of film in it, hopefully not totally flashed, so it'll be fun finishing it off.

>>106354471
Chorded keyboard, most likely based on the one used by Engelbart in the "Mother of All Demos"

Based on my 5 minutes of reading, probably similar idea to the Baudot. Characters are assigned to combinations of key presses.

https://youtu.be/2nm47PFALc8?t=2045

>>106352752 (OP)
I thought this was a RED camera body at first

>>106353024
We still use it intensively at work everyday, I'm not surprised at all

>>106352894
>castors
>that void in the centre
yikes!
>>106353384
Feels like a bulk of the heavy lifting on this one is the medium format b/w film. You can catch some of the reflection and the crushing but it's softening some elements.
The bottom left of the keyboard would look much worse with a film with more dynamic range, same goes for the cable and the desks.
>>106355404
ewww! It will be reasonably sharp. The shutter & aperture sure is interesting though, will be hard to get those beautiful square patterns out at f/8 though...

>>106331567
Well, it fell pretty short of the goal, though we can expect a low variation margin on the future side. Cost of delay for everyone who wanted mind uploading should consult feep, depending on how much longer you plan to exist re: this universe

>>106352877
thats not retro. pioneer still exists and still makes audio equipment that looks mostly like this

>>106353124
>>dunno if they changed, but had no hostile stuff like phoning home and scanning my cunny prints to send to the glowies
idk about dot matrix meme machines specifically but large format printer drivers and frontend software are basically identical to their normal desktop/office counterparts

Not my picture. I still have two and they work.

>>106357300
>the zune is nearly 20 years old

>>106357402
IIRC it was 2023 or 2024 so over 20 years old.
The outer plastic is fucking supreme, daily use for 20 years and no issues. The logo on the back has faded, but everything else looks mint.

>>106357300
I have a brown one in a drawer somewhere ... probably being crushed by expansion of the battery.

micro microfiche needs to make a come back.

with one less micro obviously

are zimzamzoomfags really this retarded??

>>106355404
Nice. I recently ran my first roll though a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye, an older and simpler variant of yours. Fun to shoot with, but all in I paid about $30 for 12 pictures. I'm not that good. I'll probably try again with a color roll anyway.

>>106355404
Nice one. I have an old Contax III somewhere around the house with an in-body meter, no clue if it's accurate.
This is the CONTAX AX, the only autofocusing manual lens camera. It's not actually german, it's Yashica with exclusive Contax Zeiss lenses (which are still german). Yashica wanted to make an autofocusing camera but their contract with Contax was only for manual lenses and even though the cameras are great, Contax wouldn't budge.
So Yashica designed a camera within a camera. The entire miror, viewfinder, and film plane moves inside this camera. It has a little sensor on the front to rangefind the object in front of it and then auto-focuses to it. It's a little finicky, it will bounce back and forth around the focus point until it narrows it down, but it works.

>>106359269
Some of those old film cameras had incredible features. Canon introduced eye control focus in the early 90's, and then it disappeared until just a couple years ago with their $6000 EOS R3 SLR.

>>106360926
>Canon introduced eye control focus in the early 90's, and then it disappeared
because it fucking sucked on those SLRs and on the R3/R5II it only reliably works with east asian people

There is no soul anymore in this world...

i go out and do floppy disk photography with a 27 year old sony mavica camera, and edit the photos with an equally old thinkpad 380XD and photoshop 5.0

>>106361727
ive posted this picture many times but i dont exactly take regular photos of my photoshop brick

>>106361727
(this photo was taken less than 2 hours ago for context)
oh and the indy in this machines wallpaper >>106361741 is also fully restored, and in regular use with irix also used for old video and audio editing

This is the Siemens IC35. It was meant to be their own competitor to Palm and Windows CE, but was seriously under-powered with its Z80 CPU and custom OS. Still it had some interesting features like using flash memory so everything was permanently saved and there was no risk of data loss when the AAA batteries were empty. Also it had dual MMC slots and one smart card reader for some reason.

>>106361803
Meanwhile the Swiss branch of the company developed pic related, a Windows CE tablet with a big 640x480 screen and good specs for its time. It even supported surfing the web using PCMCIA wifi cards and some models even had a mobile modem.

>>106353024
yes, my workplace actually still uses them
its mostly because as/400 is still in active use in a lot of industries, and the processes are pretty ingrained in the workplace
we are a construction contractor supply company and use dot matrix triple layer impact printers and as/400 in 2025
white is the internal use copy, yellow is the customer receipt copy, pink is the control copy
even the regions that switched to a new system to phase out as/400 are actually still using a modern laser printer but with stacked 3 color paper to emulate the same paper control system

This is the first Sony Ericsson Xperia.

>>106361727
>XD
I miss emoticons.

>>106361889
>that beautiful sliding keyboard
take me back. i'd suck tim apple's left nut if he gave me a keyboard.

This is the Triumpf-Adler Walkstation, also called the Olivetti D33. It was likely the first laptop with a touchpad, albeit it was not capacitive, it instead registered pressure using the included stylus. This likely was also the first laptop with an active matrix color LCD, which could be removed for desktop CRT use or swapped with a thinner monochrome one. Other features included a detachable full keyboard, an internal ISA slot, very easily upgrade-able RAM, and 386 CPU+socket for a 387.

>>106361845
>don't press the secret button

My job involves going through a lot of old trash so i might have a few interesting photos

This is an old 1950's zenith radio.

>>106353024
I bought an OKI ML5590eco back in 2022 but I'm pretty sure the company announced that it would stop producing dot-matrix printers shortly after. It's actually a pretty high-end model (24-pin, 360 DPI in both axes, fast bidirectional printing). I wonder if I should buy a spare print head just in case OKI goes out of business.

>>106362153
Weird dial on the bottom left. It's definitely an FM/AM switch but it's FM/FMAFO

>>106362248
Nice. 360 dpi? Couldn't find pic of print quality, but is that about the same as a regular printer on draft?

Launch control device for the Saturn V rockets. This is just one module for the entire computer built into the rockets, but it handled autopilot up to orbit. 2Mhz clock, 18 instructions, 32k 14-bit memory. It used hand-weaved copper wire through ferrite rings to store all information. The polarity of the ferrite determined if it was a 0 or 1, and every time the memory was read the polarity was changed, requiring a write to fix it. This is from 1967

>>106362407
Picture of the full assembly. This was purely digital. There was an analog computer on board as well and a digital-to-analog computer to handle communication between them.

>>106362376
It looks relatively high-quality on most fonts when printing PDFs in graphics mode

>>106362470
Nice, thank you very much,

>>106362470
Everything depends on the halftoning mode though.

>>106362497
The paper all banged up when it tries to print large dark areas

>>106361971
>we put the touchpad above the keyboard because where else would it be?

>>106362545
Keep in mind this was made in 1991. almost all laptops back then had no built in mouse at all.

>>106362514
The paper gets* >:|
Two built-in fonts as a bonus (the one on the top is probably LQ, not sure).

>>106362407
Humanity has fallen off.
There was a 'golden age' there for a while.

1960s heathkit oscilloscope
Very old video so excuse the quality

>>106358695
>>106359269
Brownie Hawkeye. Check.
Just picked up the Mat124G last week.

Buying the battery for the Yashica yesterday, the store clerk looked at what I requested and asked, "do you buy cameras?" Apparently she inherited a bunch of stuff and wants to clear it out. Looks like I might be dumping a pile of cash soon... :-/

>>106352752 (OP)
>The Sony Vaio UX Micro PC is an Ultra-Mobile Portable Computer (UMPC) first marketed in 2006. It weighs around 490–544 g (1.20–1.27 lb), and has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, touchscreen, Intel Core 2 Solo processor, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and WWAN.

The most beautiful piece of tech I've handled to this day. Perfect design, perfect feel, etc. I buy them second hand when I find them in good condition.

>>106352752 (OP)
8======D for tech boys

>>106363097
Cherish that store while it lasts. My favorite spot for second-hand ewaste went under as soon as I started getting decent paychecks

i have a ps/2 mouse and keyboard if that counts. the mouse is laser too.

>>106353024
the alarm system at my work still uses one. I'm not entirely sure why

>>106364384
they aren't the quietest of things tbf.
>10 PRINT 'ALARM!'
>20 GOTO 10

>>106364405
kek, they definitely are not. I'm sure it's only used because the alarm system is probably archaic and it's just printing what alarm is going off and test functions

>>106363142
this thing and the clie were the peak
>flash card and sd card slot
>flash card could use micro hard drives
>gamepad attachment
>memory stick camera module that uses the sd card slot
it was insane.

Geochron clocks. The old mechanical ones.

>>106352960
I've got that TV stand - the Sony KX ProFeels were radical for their day, TV was just a monitor and everything else was offboard. There'd usually be a tuner unit underneath, picrel also has the teletext unit. Nice looking things design-wise but wouldn't recommend for CRT gaming or whatever. Not the quality of PVM/BVM and even if you found one still working, probably wouldn't for much longer.

>>106356097
the void is where the cablebox and vcr go. that would've been an elite setup when i was a kid

I had one of these around 2000 and as a consequence I never understood the big deal about the iphones. It was just one of these but could also make phone calls. Big fucking deal...

>>106352789

I love the Amstrad PPC. That small, off-center display. It's so tasteless in a tasteful way.

>>106361727
Which model Mavica?