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Grogster

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Posted: 09:46am 11 Sep 2020
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This is quite interesting, actually.
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108 Rare and bizarre media types...
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RetroJoe

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Posted: 10:45am 11 Sep 2020
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I  loved this episode of The Eight Bit Guy - it’s kinda sobering that for every successful format there’s a dozen or so failed ones. The story of the RCA Selectavision is a particularly tortured one.

P.S. I think a paper tape reader for the CMM2 would be awesome :)
Edited 2020-09-11 21:00 by jpusztai
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Nimue

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Posted: 11:08am 11 Sep 2020
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  Grogster said  This is quite interesting, actually.
You need some kind of ad-blocker installed to save your sanity.
Something such as AdBlock Plus etc.  I could not use YT without an ad-blocker.

108 Rare and bizarre media types...


Around 1:30 -- inside the Edison Cylinder --- a genuine "bug" in the storage. Arrggh
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lizby
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Posted: 11:25am 11 Sep 2020
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  jpusztai said  P.S. I think a paper tape reader for the CMM2 would be awesome :)


Back in 1968 I had a job proofreading for one of the earliest firms doing "automated" printing (from barbed wire hobby magazines to U.S. Air Force manuals), and I learned to read 5-bit paper tape (5-bit "bytes" included shift keys to get to lower case, extended punctuation, and special characters).

I can't say I would be nostalgic about exercising that retro skill.
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HellbentHorse
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Posted: 08:50pm 11 Sep 2020
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The evolution of various technologies over time is so fascinating. Always gets a chuckle when you think how tech will start out as being overly complicated to produce something simplistic.. then the tech improves. Then you can do something complex simply. And then we come full circle again with over complicating what was simple (looking at you a million and one JS frameworks)  
 
Andrew_G
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Posted: 01:16am 12 Sep 2020
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Hey Grogs,
I thought that the story "108 Rare and Bizarre media types" was going to be about some of the other attendees at a marketing course I once did . . .

It was great to see the progression in technology - basically over "our" lifetime.
When I was young, all those years ago, we had a wind-up gramophone, big copper needles and ~8mm thick Edison records.

Thanks for passing this on.
Cheers,

Andrew
 
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