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author: GuardianElectronicDude
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: August 11, 2014, 06:20:58 am
content: Reply with some amazing electronics you have seen in you lifetime

author: george graves
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 11, 2014, 06:34:46 am
content: Consumer stuff? Movie stuff? Retro? Test gear? Anything?Movies.Retro stuff (80's-90's)I think the first time I got my hand on a Sony Discman, I was blow away. Nothing had ever felt or looked like it before.The first ipods weren't nearly impressive for some reason. Maybe cause I knew what made them tick. There wasn't a lot of black magic like there was with CD's. Just some custom chips wrapped up in a idiot proof UI? Am I the only one?Huge mixer consoles are sex as well.And pro SD video equipment from the 90's was always amazing.Most impressive thing I ever got my hands on was a few days in a full sized shuttle simulator.

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: August 11, 2014, 07:55:31 am
content: Quote from: GuardianElectronicDude on August 11, 2014, 06:20:58 amI think you better rethink your posts before you annoy most of the board, but for the fact that you have no links in your posts I'd have already earmarked you as a candidate for being a spammer!

author: German_EE
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 11, 2014, 08:02:58 am
content: I am not sure how to post pictures so:A classic piece by Bang & Olufsenhttp://www.audioscope.net/images/bang_olufsen_beogram_cdx2_excours-1.jpgSome Cray goodnesshttp://www.craysupercomputers.com/images/Systems/Cray2/Cray2_019_8Processor_NERSC.jpgThe original Apple Machttp://everystevejobsvideo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Macintosh-Hello.jpgMy first commercial ham transceiverhttp://www.universal-radio.com/used/u903lrg.jpgThe finest ham radio transceiver in the world (with a choice of colors)http://www.dl2ul.de/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/DSCN0215.jpgFinally, the biggest computer I have ever seenhttp://www.cs.man.ac.uk/CCS/res/images/res45m.jpg

author: george graves
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 11, 2014, 08:46:48 am
content: Quote from: Simon on August 11, 2014, 07:55:31 am

author: tautech
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 11, 2014, 08:53:01 am
content: @ German_EEStudy this thread:https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/best-way-to-post-pictures-on-eevblog/

author: jeremy
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 11, 2014, 08:55:33 am
content: I think that MRI machines are some of the most fascinating electronic machines ever. The more I understand, the more I can't believe that they even work.

author: tautech
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 11, 2014, 08:57:17 am
content: Quote from: george graves on August 11, 2014, 08:46:48 amGood old quick off the mark Simon again.The guy had hardly enough time to set a pattern of posting.Good way to welcome newbies?

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: August 11, 2014, 09:09:15 am
content: I think 3 posts of virtually no content is enough, if you had the job of cleaning up the mess that can be made you would know exactly what i mean but you have the luxury of being able to criticize with little background understanding. We have had plenty of new comers like this that make open ended remarks in posts that get ignored because they seem senseless until links get added to a signature that latter mean we have to delete each post that started innocent, and ended up being a spam bomb because signatures are applied respectively.

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: August 11, 2014, 11:37:25 am
content: Quote from: george graves on August 11, 2014, 08:46:48 amOh and thank you for selectively quoting to change the meaning of my words.

author: DeathTickle
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: August 11, 2014, 08:35:30 pm
content: I find this is a fun forum topic and there is no need to derail it yet.Since my first blinky I've always loved all the crazy ways engineers have found to display things to the user. Both the old and the new techniques are amazing."Nixie clock". Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commons -"Wiki dell lcd" by Rzr999 (talk) (Uploads) - (Szasz-Revai Endre, self-made). Via Wikipedia -

author: Falcon69
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 11, 2014, 11:15:57 pm
content: KITT(aka, Knightrider)

author: Alexei.Polkhanov
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 12, 2014, 12:58:52 am
content: Ever noticed that machines that look beautiful work very well too? It is almost magical true when beauty itself is unintentional by-product. Some philosophers argue that there is a connection like when we find people with good genetics, symmetrical facial features and generally well engineered by nature as more attractive.I know it is probably irrational ...

author: SteigsdB
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: August 12, 2014, 01:50:37 am
content: Quote from: george graves on August 11, 2014, 06:34:46 amIndeed.I'll see your desk, and raise you a switcher:I'll throw in the decks for free.That's 8 channels of HD video recording with simultaneous playout per machine, btw..

author: Sigmoid
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 12, 2014, 01:21:17 pm
content: Don't call them "spammers", it's not politically correct.I think the proper term is "growth hacker".