Twenty Old Tech Sounds
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IT World has 20 tech sounds you may have forgotten or if you are younger, never knew.
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Slide 10 they use channel 31 wuhf Rochester. That was the station that I watched most as a child. That's the station that introduced me to Star Trek!
The sign off there is SO familiar!
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I wish the dot matrix is one I had forgotten.. lol...
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We still use Oki Microline dot-matrix printers extensively here <blushes>
I really hate them but haven't yet found the time or the will to replace them.And slide projectors are still popular amongst photographers aren't they? So hardly historic.
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We finally got rid of all but one dot matrix this past winter. We will have one left for billing. I expect that one to be gone by next summer.
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I'm from a slide photographer background and I don't think these are still popular. They never were popular with serious photographers because they destroy the originals so quickly.
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I imaging with the progression of things, that the Click of a hard drive head crash will be one we add to that list some time in the next 10 - 20 years. As SSHD increase in capacity... we'll use SATA less.
*click, click whir; click, click whir"
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There something I still find incredibly thrilling about the noise of a dial-up modem connecting.
Other ones to go soon would include the noise a CD drawer makes opening and closing.
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@scottalanmiller said:
They never were popular with serious photographers because they destroy the originals so quickly.
Define serious photographer.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
@scottalanmiller said:
They never were popular with serious photographers because they destroy the originals so quickly.
Define serious photographer.
Those that don't use projectors for a start
Photographers who go for the maximum in image quality. Typically for commercial print or competition.
Slide projectors are common for showing travel pics or other things where display outranks image quality. Much more casual.
Until you get to people using slide projectors and only showing dupes. Then you are back to the serious people but a tiny number.
Even back when film was used in serious quantity slides were very rare. I'm from Kodaks home town and even there at best 1% of people used slides.
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I loved the different versions of Windows one. Some were new, most weren't. WTH is Foghorn though?
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Boy you ARE young. It was Longhorn, that's why the emblem looks like the UT emblem. Them was the codename for Windows 2008 until release day. It was used so heavily that people still refer to it.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Boy you ARE young. It was Longhorn, that's why the emblem looks like the UT emblem. Them was the codename for Windows 2008 until release day. It was used so heavily that people still refer to it.
That's what I meant. And okay. Good to know.
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They talked about it for years. Many of the highly touted Longhorn features still haven't arrived.
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I kind of miss the windows 98 & 2000 startup sounds. I think they sounded better back then.
and @ajstringham how have you not heard of Longhorn, there were so many leaked beta versions of longhorn. Actually I was able to get on an official beta team for a short while though.
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Dang I haven't seen a top loading VCR in many years.
Anybody remember this software? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4Ocd3cYivA It came with a lot of windows 95 computers.
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