#analog technology

[scipunk]

Rotary Un-Smartphone

[sodapop--stims]

Video Store & VHS

for @ashyslashyy

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[glamourloser]

modern tv remotes are the result of unethical breeding, causing a stubby frame and the absence of traditional and useful features such as the number and menu buttons. this has caused most domestic remotes to experience poor quality of life and a much higher risk of being lost in the couch cushions. on the other hand, older remotes maintain their natural adaptations for usability and are too large to be properly lost inside of furniture. this means that classic remotes have a much longer lifespan and more fulfilling lives compared to modern examples of the breed.

[tweedlestrove]

this is a machine that was used to punch the cards for the jacquard looms circa the 1800s! Below, there's a demonstration of this technology in action:

[s3znl-gr3znl]

God i miss feeding technology little pancakes of information. Floppy disks, CDs, DVDs, etc. We fucked up by phasing that out so quickly. The machines are hungry and we've stolen their mouths in the name of progress

[manichewitz]

the masculine urge to send cryptic messages in morse code

[observer-of-the-world]

I'm developing a small series so I'm publicly asking if someone would like to be this kind of consultant for me?

We're still writing the script but it would be so cool to have someone who really Knows This Stuff

I am once again asking unfiction creators to consult with some retrotech people.

Please, just ask "hey could you do this on an N64?" and more importantly "would you do this on an N64?".

"Do CRTs look like this?" "How do VHS tapes work?" there's so many simple questions that'd make your work so much more authentic and we'd be happy to tell you all about how you can do that.

[redraspberryleaf]

I forgot how amazing analog tech is. Been using my mums old Walkman Radio Sport instead of my phone for music, and while it's currently stuck on the one radio station my mum listened to in the 90s, is held together with painters tape, and has a library of music limited to a single fuzzy radio station and the 6 tapes I have it's soooo much better than any digital tech.

Why? IT HAS A PERSONALITY! It's an evil little gadget that misbehaves!!! When it misbehaves, I can usually just fiddle with things or bang it around a little, and it's fixed!!! If I hold it juuust right I can listen to am radio too. I CAN PRESS REAL BUTTONS AND TURN LITTLE DIALS!!!!!!! My sad soulless phone could simply never compare.

[talos-stims]

seeburg rhythm prince analog drum machine | source

[scipunk]

Blow Out (1981)

[drafty-castle]

[eyeballs my electric bill]

I’ll take four!

[sodapop--stims]

Vinyls & Fidget Spinners

for @drkiko17

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[fuckableobjects]

scanimate machine.. she is so beautifal

Fuckable Object #35 Scanimate (1969)

[vintage-tigre]

Tennis for Two was designed by American physicist William Higinbotham in 1958 for display at the Brookhaven National Laboratory's annual public exhibition after learning that the government research institution's Donner Model 30 analog computer could simulate trajectories with wind resistance. The game was displayed on an oscilloscope and played with two custom aluminum controllers. An oscilloscope is a type of electronic test instrument that graphically displays varying voltages of one or more signals as a function of time.

[avenusbeetle]

BUY A SCYTHE!

quiet✅

precise✅

easy cleanup ✅( just let the dead grass decompose in your lawn )

bring back reaping your grass when it gets too tall (like two feet or something idk)

i say this every time i have to mow a lawn but literally mowing lawn is the most wasteful miserable task human beings are expected to do on a regular basis for no pay except for i guess ones i dont know about or am forgetting

[unbfacts]