With the proliferation of smartphones and other devices, I thought nobody would be using pagers anymore, but I found at least one channel that's still active. This is my Realistic PRO-2023 scanner receiving POCSAG pager data transmissions in the 152 MHz VHF communications band. There are computer programs which can capture the audio and decode the actual text that was being transmitted. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01j56Vi8Z8Q
1985 promotional video for an electronic gauge designed to help truckers drive more economically, containing an Intel 8020 microcontroller chip.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llhiJjuxRJQ
Something funny and interesting I discovered. Starting at 00, 01, 02, 03, etc., and counting up numerically, there are a whole bunch of early YouTube accounts created in 2005. Almost all of them have never posted any videos, and haven't signed in over 4 years, but yet they each have hundreds of subscribers -- and many have the same exact subscribers.
I don't know how high these "number accounts" go up to, but out of the first 30, I could only find one that actually seems to be active. Was this an early attempt by YouTube to boost their total number of users? Or did these serve as numerical placeholders on their servers, for some archane technical reason? Who knows...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xamPTwOOxmQ
Download uncompressed WAV files for listening and comparison: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_oqlENevINHcmhQaDVzTnBOZFU
A side-by-side audio quality comparison between a $300 Audio-Technica AT-LP120-USB professional direct-drive turntable and a 1980s Quasar CS-7030 stereo system with built-in belt-drive record player. The AT-LP120 certainly looks more impressive, but which one actually sounds better? Listen and decide for yourself!
To hear the Quasar playing an entire album side: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD_rDUettCM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a2S5mltdiI
If you're looking for a 4 GHz Windows Vista laptop, 3000 watt amplified speakers, or a fake HD camcorder, you've come to the right place!
Images scanned using my 1998 HP Scanjet 5100C parallel port scanner.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4-WWCXiR6M
An HP Pavilion Slimline computer I found at the recycling center which had suffered an unfortunate incident that destroyed its onboard video connector. I got it working again by installing a PCI Express x16 graphics card.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeK8PPfp7nk
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Important footnotes: (click Show More)
* I am in no way advocating the purchase of Crosley Cruiser record players. They sound terrible and better choices are available in the same price range. I'm just disproving the claim that they will "destroy" or "chew up" records. In normal use and with proper care, your records will be fine.
* BSR record changers were the Crosleys of their day; they were lambasted by audiophiles as "record grinders", because many of them had tracking forces similar to the cheap record players of today -- but yet, if you've ever listened to a used record from the '60s through '80s, chances are it was played on a BSR or similarly crude record player at some point in its life, and yet was not "destroyed".
* I take "destroyed" or "chewed up" to mean a record that has become unplayable and unlistenable due to skipping or extreme distortion; not merely to mean the scratchiness typical of "well-loved" records. When faced with a scratchy record, most people just turn down the tone control and continue to play it.
* The elliptical styli favored by audiophiles will cause excessive record wear at tracking forces much above 3 grams, so 3 to 3.5 grams is frequently cited as the maximum safe tracking force for all turntables. However, the conical or spherical styli used by inexpensive record players and "DJ" cartridges can apply higher tracking forces without any significant risk of excessive wear. When stereo LPs first came out, 5 to 6 grams was cited as the maximum safe tracking force, as compared to the 10 to 12 grams that was typical of older monaural record players!
* As I mentioned in the video, the LP I used for my test has very low groove modulation, causing surface noise to be much more audible. Modern LPs and 12-inch singles are cut much louder, enough to drown out the surface noise of all but the most extreme tracking forces I used during my test.
* Some audiophiles have defended their overblown claims by saying that the damage caused by a cheap record player will only be audible on a "good" turntable, because on a Crosley the fidelity is so low that you wouldn't be able to hear it. But other tests have disproven this; see Record Raid's video "Will cheap turntables damage your records?": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K3XcD46Wk0
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPc5frU8IQQ