imvii

@imvii@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I always suspected that these never actually cleaned anything⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The heads pick up dirt and over time the tapes shed on the play and record heads. It’s a dark brown mass that builds up. The thicker it is, the more it interferes with record/playback. Playback will sound muffled with a loss in the high end. Also, the buildup promotes the tapes shedding more doing damage over time. It usually comes off easy with a few light wipes with an alcohol dipped q-tip.

  The only “trick” I’ve heard is you are supposed to only wipe off the tape head the way the tape runs across it. The idea being you don’t want to scratch the head which would then damage the tape. I don’t know if this was just folklore, but it seems logical.

  I used to have a reel to reel Tascam 8 track that ran 1/2 tape in my studio. I was always careful to wipe only in the direction of the tape and I’d clean before each studio session. I never saw any build up on those heads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not real... *for now*⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s when I’d put my “smart” phone in the toaster and go dust off the Nokia 3310

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon experiences freedom⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think he was trying to download something, it was taking time, and he thought the requested files are all in order in “the tubes”. He had to wait for the other files to be delivered before his arrived.

  …or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon experiences freedom⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  " And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It’s not a big truck. It’s a series of tubes. And if you don’t understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it’s going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material." - Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon experiences freedom⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Jose is from Witchistan

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It works for anything⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Image

  Am I right or am I right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Freedumb⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a smallpox scar on the back of my arm and I didn’t even know it was there.

  We got the shots in school and I have faint memories of the Jet Injector. Most scars of people my age are on the side of the arm up near the shoulder. I didn’t have one so for years I assumed I didn’t get the vaccine or my memory of it was wrong.

  Then one day in the shower my girlfriend pointed it out. It’s around the backside of the arm and hard to see in a mirror - but it’s there.

  I feel kind of special having it as it isn’t that common these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Freedumb⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m the same age. I never knew anyone who had measles EXCEPT older people who told stories of it. I never knew anyone who had it whilst I knew them.

  On the flip side, we attended chickenpox parties to get infected. Of course this was before the vaccination and knowing more about Shingles. All the folklore knew was one you get chickenpox, you never get it again and it’s better to have it as a child than adult.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone remember this?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You can download all the old Netscapes here - home.mcom.com/archives/

  I found Mosaic 1 here - winworldpc.com/product/ncsa-mosaic/1

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone remember this?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Going from Netscape 1 to Netscape 2 which supported animated gifs. What a day that was!