featured_spectre Posted February 13, 2014 Posted February 13, 2014 Not strictly tech (as it never works) I do also own a green lantern ring!
X-13 Posted February 13, 2014 Posted February 13, 2014 Not strictly tech (as it never works) I do also own a green lantern ring! I have a black lantern ring and a white lantern ring from the Blackest night/brightest day arcs. And a flash ring from Flashpoint.
jinnantonnixx Posted February 13, 2014 Posted February 13, 2014 I have a black lantern ring and a white lantern ring from the Blackest night/brightest day arcs. And a flash ring from Flashpoint. What on earth are you talking about?
tmcd35 Posted February 13, 2014 Posted February 13, 2014 What on earth are you talking about? It's some Power Rangers thing, isn't it?
ICTDirect_Dave Posted February 13, 2014 Posted February 13, 2014 I have a black lantern ring and a white lantern ring from the Blackest night/brightest day arcs. And a flash ring from Flashpoint. I have the white & black ones Not got the flash one though *jealous*
rich_tech Posted February 13, 2014 Posted February 13, 2014 I have a Barcode Battler around the house somewhere ! Still have my acorn electron at my parents house too ! Also I had and managed to offload - Minidisc player x2 First proper PC was an AST Advantage 613E with cirrus logic graphics !
featured_spectre Posted February 13, 2014 Posted February 13, 2014 I have the complete set of all colours, plus a flash ring, a green lantern lantern, a blue lantern of hope, and a domino mask of the green lantern (not strictly what they have to protect their identity, but yeh)
X-13 Posted February 13, 2014 Posted February 13, 2014 I have the white & black ones Not got the flash one though *jealous* I also have a full set of the badges from Walking Dead 100. I have the complete set of all colours, plus a flash ring, a green lantern lantern, a blue lantern of hope, and a domino mask of the green lantern (not strictly what they have to protect their identity, but yeh) I didn't get the tie-ins. Just the main ones.
Nibiru Posted February 13, 2014 Posted February 13, 2014 It'll be 20 years next year since I had my first home pc - a 486 with a 14" crt monitor, 8mb ram & a 850 mb hdd. It took me 3 years to fill up the hdd! I went online with that machine in the early days of the internet. It was fine as long as the webpage didnt have any pictures in it - if it did the browser crashed (an early incarnation of netscape was my favoured browser way back then) I upgraded the ram to 24mb at enormous expense at one point. That base unit sat around for years until it turfed out into a scrap bin up at the local tip.
Garacesh Posted February 13, 2014 Posted February 13, 2014 Childhood gadgets sure ain't what they used to be. Give me a Tamagochi and I would've been the happiest kid for miles! I remember I went through a few of them in my youth. There was one, I don't remember what it was called, but the outer chassis was rectangular (cuboid, technically) and it had a pattern engraved onto it to look like rugged bricks. The screen was on the left, buttons on the right. Definitely my favourite out of the lot of them I tried (on account of I still remember it pretty vividly) One of the monsters it would 'evolve' into was t-rex ish. Another kind of looked like a poo (which happened if you didn't care for it too well.. I accidentally left mine in my mum's car over the weekend and it became a poo minion.. I actually preferred it to the t-rex. It had eyes on tentacles, kind of like you'd expect on a cartoon slug (Ooh, I know, think Gary from Spongebob.. except it was a poo-like-thing) Oh, those were certainly the days. There were no iPod's for me, and I was happy with that.
Greenbeast Posted February 13, 2014 Posted February 13, 2014 I loved my minidisc player! They were pretty robust and handy discs to carry around. I had the Creative DAP when it came out, 6Gb 3.5" drive inside a Discman sized shell, one of the early digital music player (I think) About 8 years ago I was driving a VW Golf MKIV and installed a carpc, with molded dash touch screen and the hardware all hidden in panels in the boot (leaving a fully usable boot space)
sted Posted February 13, 2014 Posted February 13, 2014 Realmagic Hollywood Plus DVD decoder card that saw sterling service playing back dvd's on an early celeron (the ones without L2 cache) without it I'd have been lucky to get 4 pixels that occasionally changed colour. Completely obsolete as soon as CPU's started to get reasonably powerful. werent they the hardware card that had a 4" vga loopback cable so to plug the monitor into my pc at one point i had vga card-loopbackcable--3dfx card-loopback cable-dvdcard- screen lol best bit of tech probably my kindle it just works and works very well
3s-gtech Posted February 13, 2014 Posted February 13, 2014 Exact spec from 2004, hurray for hotmail storing ancient emails! Nvidia 8800GTX But...but...the 8800 line was released in 2006 (as it was DX10, along with Vista). That is some serious purchasing power!
Trojan Posted February 13, 2014 Posted February 13, 2014 werent they the hardware card that had a 4" vga loopback cable Yes I think it did, seem to remember that as well..
featured_spectre Posted February 13, 2014 Posted February 13, 2014 But...but...the 8800 line was released in 2006 (as it was DX10, along with Vista). That is some serious purchasing power! It was a mistype, Should have been 6800GT not 8800GTX. I had that in my head because it was a separate purchase. My bad!
3s-gtech Posted February 13, 2014 Posted February 13, 2014 Ah, the 6800GT. That and the 6600GT were so ubiquitous, Nvidia had that generation dominated sales wise (it was up against the X*** series). The 8800GTX was a beast though, in more ways than one!
mthomas08 Posted February 13, 2014 Posted February 13, 2014 Does an old Dell Desktop PC count ? It lasted 8 years and cost me £600-£700, still worked well before I gave it to a mate. And who says PCs don't last! Only had to rebuild it once and that was only because I wanted a refresh!. Never failed, never bluescreen but it was Windows 2000 What about an old Motorola 2000 I think it was, a Brick and lived up to it. Could play football, throw it, take a swim in the bath (and toilet...) still worked. Still did that worse sound than a Mac when you turn it on. I think it was built on NT Technology Even when I replaced it, it was only for something more "in fashion".
featured_spectre Posted February 13, 2014 Posted February 13, 2014 I got the 8800GTX about a month after release as Watford Electronics had a sale on it (got it with 25% off). Punkbuster hated the card for ages and I was banned from many gaming servers which used it as the screenshots came up black - americas army, BF2, BF2142, was just a horrible experience. lol
3s-gtech Posted February 13, 2014 Posted February 13, 2014 My favourite is probably still my car stereos, boring as they are! I have a JVC AVX2 and a JVC AVX33, they can play DVD films on the dinky screen built in or more usefully on an external screen for passengers, they can connect to older iPods (I have a Classic with 32GB CompactFlash in place of the original HDD for this), they can play DVDs filled with MP3s, and the AVX33 has Bluetooth. They're both years old now, but never found any unit I like more.
budgester Posted February 14, 2014 Posted February 14, 2014 Amiga 500, cost £350, saved up for at £10 a week from my saturday job, plus birthday and christmas money. Then added a extra 512kb <- yes thats right kb. of ram for the socket underneath. Plus an additional 3 1/2 floppy drive.
tmcd35 Posted February 14, 2014 Posted February 14, 2014 Amiga 500, cost £350, Then added a extra 512kb <- yes thats right kb. of ram for the socket underneath. When I got my A600 I wanted to fit a hard drive - 20mb if you please!!! Found out the model I bought had kickstart 2.04 and 2.05 was needed for hard drive support. Got on a train to Upminster to buy new Kickstart chip (they actually had one in stock!!!). Fitted using a butter knife to prize out the old chip from the DIP socket.
synaesthesia Posted February 14, 2014 Posted February 14, 2014 Good old days. Never really worked with Amigas (well, not my own) but a butter knife was indeed the tool of choice for removal of many such sockets. I did a memory upgrade on my old 800XL which required soldering (and oddly, worked!) but after that it was removable chips all the way.I remember being amazed when chips no longer really needed long legs, which I think was when I fitted a 256k memory upgrade to a Cirrus Logic VLB video card Still, bring back jumpers! Nothing looked more technical when building a computer than being able to read instructions and set a myriad of jumpers correctly to set bus & clock speeds, local address changes and what-not!
tmcd35 Posted February 14, 2014 Posted February 14, 2014 Still, bring back jumpers! Nothing looked more technical when building a computer than being able to read instructions and set a myriad of jumpers correctly to set bus & clock speeds, local address changes and what-not! Aye, it's got too easy. Bring back jumpers, and IRQ settings, none of this "plug 'n' play" malarkey!
synaesthesia Posted February 14, 2014 Posted February 14, 2014 On which bombshell, who remembers the joys like this in your autoexec/config.sys files "SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T3" First sound cards, Sound Blasters were an absolute joy but did anyone get to play with the Adlib/Gravis Sound System stuff? I missed out on those
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