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www.youtube.com/bestbuy - Musician and Best Buy employee, Keith Parsons, rocks his Best Buy holiday campaign audition.
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- MrBrotato, on 07/19/2009, -1/+167If that was only 36 years ago, imagine where computers will be in another 36 years.
- Italiantecboy, on 07/19/2009, -1/+125Iphone killer?
- burntcookie90, on 07/19/2009, -1/+111dugg for it being directed to men
- Axfire, on 07/19/2009, -0/+79They'll be laughing at your 50" plasma 36 years from now too.
- ToddsSpleen, on 07/19/2009, -2/+75If you drop it on the iPhone.
- smacksaw, on 07/19/2009, -5/+74It's a rhetorical question.
- bsterzenbach, on 07/19/2009, -1/+67Only marginally less functional than my current HP notebook
- Majora26, on 07/19/2009, -0/+53Killing us when they become self aware
- B1665r, on 07/19/2009, -0/+48With the number of lulz doubling every 18 month, I predict we have less than 5 years before the lulzcalypse.
36 more years indeed. - imikedaman, on 07/19/2009, -1/+48"could encode 100 dvd's in 1 second"
Man, my MacBook just screams at ripping these Betamax tapes once you get the right adapter. I'm still trying to figure out how they crammed so many vacuum tubes inside this thing. - anthropodeus, on 07/19/2009, -0/+47"Back before neural technology allowed the delivery of images directly into the visual cortex, devices called "TVs" and "monitors" were used to make images OUTSIDE the brain, on which the eyes were then focused in order to transmit the signal to the visual cortex. Of course, as the viewer's distance from the "monitor" increased, the percentage of the viewer's field of view that was occupied by the image dropped off rapidly, leading to displays of absurdly large size in order to counter this effect."
- MN1962, on 07/19/2009, -10/+56.. and windows still takes 2 minutes to load up.
- barfbagman, on 07/19/2009, -4/+49Basically you'd spend a month building this machine all the while ignoring your responsibilities to your wife and kids. You'd plug it in about 100 times before it would finally work. You'd then gather the family around and show them. You'd type "HELLO KIDS" "THIS IS COOL HUH?!!!!!" "MY NAME IS STEVE JONES" etc. 2 minutes later your daughter would go back to her barbies. A minute later your wife would go back into the kitchen. Your son would stick around only because he wouldn't want you to know that he thinks his Dad is such a loser. You'd turn it off 5 minutes later. When you're friend comes over and asks what it is you'd consider showing him but instead say "ah nothing". Then you'd put in in the closet with all the other useless junk you made from the magazine over the years.
Now you're 60 and looking at the DIGG article thinking.... "ahh the good ole days" - archivedigger, on 07/19/2009, -5/+42TV Typewriter and TV Dinner, allow me to introduce Mr. 50" Plasma.
- awfl, on 07/19/2009, -1/+36Don Lancaster is a researcher, engineer, entrepreneur, a hacker way before that term was "cool". I cannot do him justice so see his website http://www.tinaja.com/
Stupid kids; IIRC the things he described in that article likely used and helped develop the very fundamentals of digital displays. Made completely out of individual logic gates and chips, modulators, and amplifiers; it demonstrated the computer display of information on a home (TV) monitor before there was any graphics chipsets to do so. Way ahead of his time, it was at the very beginning of home computing displays (I'll defer to the technology historians for exact lineage).
BTW, I was there, reading this very mag and article as a kid; I likely still have it somewhere. But I was not able to understand why it was important at the time. - zydeco, on 07/19/2009, -0/+34After the psychedelic 1960s, everyone became more conscious of conservation and nature. Design and fashion turned to "earthy" tones. Kind of the first wave of the whole "green" movement of today, but for some reason the colors were all dark and dull.
In return, our whole generation got kitchens full of Harvest Gold and Avocado colored appliances. All our computers were beige.
Living in the 70s was quite fun, regardless. Got to see Star Wars when it first came out. Didn't spend all day in a browser pretending to have friends. - skipvt, on 07/19/2009, -0/+25Back in '85 I worked on a data acquisition system designed in 1958. Racks and racks of 4"x4" circuit cards. 8k of volatile memory, which meant that every time you powered down you had to manually enter a bootstrap program via the 16bit input register. Programs were inputted by means of a 8 bit, mylar coated paper tape. Data was recorded onto a 1" reel to reel tape. So if you ask me what the future of computers is, I'd say you couldn't even imagine, and anything you'd come up with would be 99% wrong.
- inactive, on 07/19/2009, -1/+25and the rest of the world mourns
- christophe971, on 07/19/2009, -1/+24... run crysis ?
Yes. Yes it will. - hmemcpy, on 07/19/2009, -0/+2250 years from now people will be laughing at how we physically plugged tiny devices in to copy stuff around.
- zydeco, on 07/19/2009, -0/+21Don's books on microprocessor interfacing influenced a whole generation of engineers, the ones that created the personal computers of the 1970s.
Any kid sitting down and reading his work today will think "man, this is simple stuff", but back in the day this was pure magic. Now get off my lawn. - Charlotte_Web, on 07/19/2009, -0/+21"could encode 100 dvd's in 1 second"
The problem there is that the DVD would break apart in the drive from the g-forces long before your rotation speed ever got close to achieving a 1 second burn speed. - depro9, on 07/19/2009, -4/+23"for men with ideas in electronics" http://tinyurl.com/cv8gdh
- Seminolewill, on 07/19/2009, -0/+19I love the fine wood grain...
- mbondr, on 07/19/2009, -0/+18It's the process, not the product.
- infectaphibian, on 07/19/2009, -1/+18They just couldn't get enough brown in the 70's.
- forrondur, on 07/19/2009, -1/+17But will it...
- rpgmakr, on 07/19/2009, -1/+17"For men with ideas in electronics"
Nice. - duke, on 07/19/2009, -1/+16Maybe the Video Professor could help you. :)
- wastelander, on 07/19/2009, -3/+18I was wondering WTF a "TV Typerwriter" was:
"The TV Typewriter was a video terminal that could display 2 pages of 16 lines of 32 upper case characters on a standard television set."
WOW.. thats just.. special.. :-P
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_Typewriter - Vishalrix, on 07/19/2009, -2/+17TV typewriter , from the time when men were men and women were in the kitchen ...
- solid12345, on 07/19/2009, -0/+14Hold on, hold on, did you pay for the TV typewriter? Let's get the disclosures out of the way...
- h8red42, on 07/19/2009, -1/+15does somebody have daddy issues?
- Kaiosama, on 07/19/2009, -0/+14Leo Laporte's predecessor?
- inactive, on 07/19/2009, -2/+16The magazine of 'Get your ass back in the kitchen'.
...or Better Homes & Gardens. - RickyTheRiot, on 07/19/2009, -0/+14I'm loving the keyboard, spot the switch for Add/Sub, it must have worked like a primitive shift key.
Edit: In fact is it? As, to me, it looks like there are shifted symbols over the numbers and the N and M keys so perhaps there is a dedicated shift key already. I wonder what the flick switches underneath the keyboard do then..
Edit 2: Damn, I should have just checked the wiki pages... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SWTPC_Keyboard.j ...
Heh, this digg submit is a car crash now, digg or bury as you see fit... ;) - slapded, on 07/19/2009, -0/+13I only built a hovercraft from the back of a boys life magazine
- gllopc, on 07/19/2009, -6/+19The female alternative: "For women who liked to cook and know when to shut the hell up".
- gooberguy, on 07/19/2009, -0/+13FOR MEN
- lanemik, on 07/19/2009, -0/+12heh, you still think there will be DVD ripping in 36 years.
- Ferretman, on 07/19/2009, -0/+11I remember that issue!
I recall during the late '70s poring over the various electronics magazines pondering the new "computer kits" you could buy. They had instructions to put them together and then you'd have your Very Own Personal Computer!
What exactly you'd DO with such a critter wasn't really spelled out but the appeal was huge. - CireDark, on 07/19/2009, -0/+10On what? the TV Typewriter? or the TV Itself? On the wall in the background? WHY WAS THERE SO MUCH WOOD PANELING ON ***** BACK THEN!?
- simbait, on 07/19/2009, -0/+10How do they do that?! Magic?
- breadfred, on 07/19/2009, -0/+10What did you do with the rest of the magazine?
- lazlotlomax, on 07/19/2009, -0/+9I think those TV Typrewriter things might really catch on thats just really cool technology. I wonder what other applications it might have.
- KirbyMeister, on 07/19/2009, -3/+12I'm glad i wasn't alive, in the 2000s everything was white, white variations, darkish brown and black
why?
No really. WHY? - CobaltScribe, on 07/19/2009, -0/+9I was in junior high school during that time and remember browsing electronics magazines in the school library. While primitive and fairly useless by modern standards (the keyboard interface is something most computer users rarely even think about) the TV Typewriter being demonstrated as a home project showed where things were heading.
Also while not terribly functional, TV Typewriters seem to have been popular items with the geeks of the day. I recall an article introducing the Sony BetaMax suggesting using it to store the images from a TV Typewriter; an early and very weird form of word processing. - BasalCellBossk, on 07/19/2009, -0/+9"You think that computers will ever have gigabytes of ram? And you're a science student? How sad."
entry #537
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You sound like that guy. - jfinke, on 07/19/2009, -0/+9And people are still debating what makes a HiFi speaker...
- Wilddigi, on 07/19/2009, -0/+9This issue was better
http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/RadioElectronics/Jun1 ... -
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