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The SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment) AN/FSQ-7 console had a built-in cigarette lighter and ashtray

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Reactivating an 1800's Victorian Leclanché cell [bigclivedotcom] [10:20]

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Testing some old Western Electric LEDs [4032x3024 - 931KB]

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I felt like I was classifying new bacterium here. [4032x3024 - 1.07MB]

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It's Not Your Emergency - The vibration of the pager has a sound all its own.

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Anyone remember these little USB fans?

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A Commodore Boombox: The 1350 As You’ve Never Heard It Before

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1983 Northern Telecom Commodore Phone - The Old Telephone Room

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Ibm's Weird Gpu From 1987 - Ibm 8514/A

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Picked this oddball R-C bridge up recently. [1762x1330 - 354KB]

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This Majestic console with fold out speakers. [4032x3024 - 2.2MB]

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They Were the Best — Now They're a Walmart Brand. What Happened? [Skylabs Audio] [16:24]

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Old with the old. [3024x4032 - 1.59MB]

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This piece of old equipment... [1500x1548 - 246KB]

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Recreating the F14 (Fighter Jet) CADC (Central Air Data Computer) The first microprocessor – All working, Git shared

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This 150-year-old technology is still mind blowing! This is a museum in the Netherlands.

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A transistor with two emitters? No way.

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Very unique Swiss tube radio from 1937 - "The battery that lasts 50 years - Bell Radio 537"

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Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight

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The Last Lights of Chernobyl’s SKALA Computer [Chornobyl Family 🇺🇦] [11:42]

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On old silver-mica postage stamp capacitors. [469x460 - 51KB]

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Germanium crystal point-contact diode. [1138x1280 - 127KB]

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What if everything still ran on vacuum tubes? [The 8-Bit Guy] [23:02]

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Time has not been kind to VHS — Harvard Gazette

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When you open a 70 year old device and find something the OEM didn't do... [500x629 - 43KB]

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