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Post by HoudiniDerek on Aug 1, 2011 18:27:58 GMT -5
I think that VCRs, while somewhat dated, are still relevant because people still have them. I think they are less dated than being surprised at microwave cooking.
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Post by prometheus74 on Aug 1, 2011 19:41:33 GMT -5
Erm, yeah, VCRs.......I do indeed still have mine somewhere........gathering dust.
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Post by HoudiniDerek on Aug 1, 2011 20:00:53 GMT -5
I actually still watch mine. Some of the movies I have on VHS are not to be found on DVD.
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Post by herald7 on Aug 1, 2011 20:08:29 GMT -5
Yeah I still use the VCR occasionally. My library often has VHS's for sale; 50 cents, can't beat that! : D
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Post by MelMac on Aug 1, 2011 22:08:31 GMT -5
Hey, our family's first VCR was $250 and very clunky. Now you can get it for $25 if that and they're quite good. My VCR is over 8 years old and still works flawlessly. (Then again - you'd also have to understand our first microwave was either a prize or some "thank you for touring our mansions you'll never afford" gift. If the latter, it was the second one - the first prize we were given was a computer you hooked up to TV and played games and such. The game that we kids were allowed to play were clowns that jumped off ladders onto teeter-totters and you were supposed to pop balloons. How I remember this not even thinking about it for about 9 years I don't know. )
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Post by Videofox on Aug 2, 2011 10:20:03 GMT -5
I've had all sorts of antiquated appliances that lasted longer and were more reliable than their present-day counterparts. I think it's because manufacturers learned that they will go out of business if everyone only had to buy one of their products. Nowadays they're built to fail. It's not a bug, it's a feature!
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Post by MelMac on Aug 2, 2011 14:50:50 GMT -5
yeah, I agree - I have had to replace a three year old computer, a camera is currently being repaired that is three years old, and the like. Only my 10 year old DVD player and 8 year old VCR (though it may be older) have not been replaced. I did retire however a 25 year old TV this year for an LCD one - but by then all I was getting on the old TV was a HAL wannabe (or thin line of light and dialogue. ) The other regular TV - about 8 years old now - I have does work, but I only watch it if I am bedridden.
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Post by HoudiniDerek on Aug 4, 2011 18:05:16 GMT -5
I agree on things being built to fail. I grew up with the same microwave, fridge, etc. Now, my parents go through one every few years.
The same is true with televisions. My wife and I bought one in November. It has been in the shop FOUR times and been replaced once...and still is not right.
NOTE TO EVERYONE: Do NOT buy Samsung or buy from Sears!
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Post by prometheus74 on Aug 4, 2011 20:06:32 GMT -5
That's strange......Samsung is supposed to be one of the most reliable and respected brands.
Mine's an LG, but some people consider LG nothing but "a ripoff" of Samsung. Someone actually told me that, about LG.
And up here in Canada, anyway, Sears is also highly regarded.
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Post by MelMac on Aug 4, 2011 23:04:55 GMT -5
Thanks for the complaint on the TV HD... I just remembered I need to call and inquire about my camera that is being repaired. I'd kinda like to have it back so I have a backup camera during football season. And what's sad is the camera has been working well after being fixed, but this damned heat has messed up any repairs made. WIll say though that I love the fact that digital cameras make the film cameras outdated - I cannot, no matter how hard I try, actually SHOOT my camera if the lens cap is on. Yes, the camera is an SLR (meaning you see what you're shooting through the eyeviewer), but still... I've had the same luck with a non-SLR camera - even there it doesn't fire if I press the button.
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Post by HoudiniDerek on Aug 8, 2011 20:14:21 GMT -5
We finally got a new TV and IT is wrong too. *Sigh*
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Post by prometheus74 on Aug 8, 2011 23:03:01 GMT -5
From the sounds of it, the world we live in is starting to become more and more like Terry Gilliam's film "Brazil", in which technology is all around them, but nothing works properly. ;D
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Post by herald7 on Sept 13, 2011 14:05:21 GMT -5
Not sure if this was mentioned, but in "The Price Is Right," one of Ralph's former classmates assumes that Ralph must be the lawyer and Pam must be the teacher, hehe.
Along the same lines in "Now You See It" when it's assumed that Pam's the one who brings the guys coffee.
The show wasn't that long after the Women's Lib thing after all. Everyone was having to change their assumptions about society.
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Post by prometheus74 on Sept 13, 2011 23:47:37 GMT -5
Yeah, good point Herald7. And Bill Maxwell was a chauvinist. ;D
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Post by believeitornot on Dec 11, 2011 18:11:47 GMT -5
This thread makes me think about an episode where Bill was using a computer at the Hoover building to check something on a suspect. And someone in a different location knew he was using it. And I think that's what he wanted to happen so he would be taken to where they were and Ralph would locate him and the bad guys both. Anyway this makes me wonder if there was some rudimentary form of the internet at the time, we are talking early eighties here. Or was this just something made up for the story. I cannot remember the name of the episode.
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Post by herald7 on Dec 12, 2011 7:20:27 GMT -5
That's a good question! We'd have to do more research on the state of computers at the time.
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Post by believeitornot on Dec 12, 2011 18:53:09 GMT -5
Well I was thinking, maybe there was not internet at the time, but in an organization such as the FBI, maybe all the computers in one location or building would be networked. Would that be called an intranet instead of internet, maybe. So that would mean the person/people Bill was after were crooked agents. Ughh! I wish I could remember the name of the episode.
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Post by prometheus74 on Dec 13, 2011 2:51:50 GMT -5
Apparently, the internet actually dates back to the Korean war! It was created by the U.S. army as a way to communicate quickly by linking various Federal and military networks together. This was the "embryonic" first stage of what much later became the World Wide Web.
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Post by herald7 on Dec 13, 2011 16:27:34 GMT -5
Yeah both the Intranet and embryonic Internet are plausible explanations. Of course we don't know how accurate they were trying to be on the show itself, hehe.
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Post by The J-Man on Dec 13, 2011 18:16:59 GMT -5
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