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NoJusticeNoPeace that's hilarious. So you had gobots instead of transformers too, didn't you?

Did you parents buy AMC cars as well? Mine did. I feel we lived tech lives very similar. Betamax? yes but when it came for computers we got a VIC20. And instead of Atari we had odyssey 2. Ugh.

Do you now own a Mac?

@@BlackTyeChi I DID have GoBots. Damn. That hurts. You hit below the belt.

Laserdisc was the best format for home cinema, at least until DVD came out, and even that's debatable. Getting that was a great idea! You get the best image quality available during the 80s and 90s, the Laserdisc versions were often uncensored, and often had great extra features you certainly wouldn't get on video tape. Fuck VHS, it's garbage in every way. It's only advantage is it got nearly every release. But Laserdisc usually did too, even if it might take a while. I'm saying that and I never owned a Laserdisc player, I just know my technology! Intellivision (BAY FIFTY-TWO BAAWMEEERR!) hardware was well advanced of the 2600s. The 2600 was particularly shit, the hardware designed for Pong and Combat. It got... versions... of other games for a few years but they were really squeezed in there, and it showed. They looked fucking AWFUL and gameplay was usually very limited. Also the Colecovision had hardware not far away from arcade machines of the time. Again I had none of these machines. Like most Europeans I had home computers instead, and spent time playing games designed for computers, rather than endless arcade conversions and ripoffs like the American consoles got. The Coleco Adam yep I'll give you. It had the techology I mentioned, similar to arcade hardware of the time of the Colecovision, but that was years previous. By the time of the Adam it was lacking. Also the dual inbuilt tape drives were bizarre and pointless, and built-in meant you lost your whole computer when they went wrong. Rather than other computers that had separate external tape drives. Indeed the ZX Spectrum, and many other British computers, used a tape player you would supply yourself, any tape player would do. Much easier and more flexible, cheaper too. Even if you bought a tape player just for it, you could use that to listen to music later, me and my sisters did. So yeah you get a few points for the Adam. Which also weirdly came with a built-in printer. Which the power supply for the whole machine was built into! So you couldn't do without it! And printers are expensive, which made the whole thing more expensive! Yep a stupid machine. But I'd have liked them if they eventually crashed the prices on them. Not living in the USA, and not being an adult at that time, I didn't have the opportunity. Missing out on the 2600 and VHS though? You missed a bullet!

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XD Maybe they were trying to avoid copyright ;p

That guy probably forgot the head in his self-portrait.

The target audience - the teachers tasked with calculating the IQ scores of children - was considered to be more comfortable receiving instructions as low-fidelity audio recordings on expensive proprietary media, instead of in the form of printed words. This has a few implications, -all- _some_ of which are depressing.

@@HaloInverse I'm a bit more optimistic, and think they just wanted the teachers to experience their little gimmick as well.

@@PhirePhlame ...you know, using the instructions as a form of "tech demo" _would_ also make sense - so the teachers using this technology with their students would have more first-hand knowledge of it. You make a fair point - previous comment updated.

Looks like they took that activity about as seriously as anyone should have.

That's sounds just amazing

Well, get to it and make a collection of playable album posters. You already know the technology exists.

U could be buying smth like "build up our machine" and have bendy artwork on the front or something.

@@deusexaethera yeah but even could manufacture this, wich dont know how expensive would be considering, who even still works with magnetic tape now days, very few people has this device and would requiore manufacture that too. is a cool concept but dont think would be that easy to do now days, besides make it a nitch funny thing

@@marika5353: Kickstarter.

Ah, good old Shelley "The Machine" Levene, shoe-seller extraordinaire...

Surely Not!!!

So he's kind of a shy shyster?

@@borisbrosowski6630 exshactly!

@Simple Weirdo "Sheller? I barely know 'er!"

Dis'zz Klelion Dein, maaan! Evry-un knowz herz.

4:32 is PURE cinema nightmare fuel, and would go perfectly in a found footage film set in an abandoned 1970s era Oklahoma elementary school that was mysteriously condemned after an … unknown incident.

A great way for Mr. Phelps to receive mission briefings on "Mission Impossible". The front side has a picture, the back has info about the picture.

With a soundtrack of songs from the nineties recorded on this device.... It's something quite scary in itself.

A cool ghost story as well.

Or a horror game where you need to sort the pages out and play them? Like the typical horrifying notes in a game, but you get them in the recorder and they play secret recodings? That'd be cool

waiting for hipsters to start buying them

lanswipe They need to click into the 3M Thermofax copiers as well, those were classic!

Giselle Velazquez Nobody tell Jack White these exist or it will be the only format his next single is on

I liked paper recordings even before you thought they were cool.

HD Vinyl? 30-minute sides that sound as good as 18-minute sides? Screw that! I got sheets of paper with ferric oxide recorded on obsolete school equipment - and I got all the hottest hits!

Shermanbay interesting factoid. The draw a man draw a woman was part of a psych evaluation test that I had to take when I went to prison in the early 2000’s. They would then call you in and ask you questions like “why did you draw breast on the woman?” Or something similar and then look at you while you asked making a weird face while they scribbled something down on a paper. They would not answer any questions either just ask you questions about the answers you gave on the test. Just because I’m sure someone will ask. I went to prison for drugs.

Now that you've answered the question I was going to ask, I'll ask a different questions, @@davidsandlin9686 (if that is your real name). Which drugs?

Tjimi Cole possession of heroin and cocaine. I was an opiate addict and also used cocaine. I’ve been clean since 2012.

customsongmaker they were proportionate to the rest of her. Lol.

@@davidsandlin9686 hey congrats on being clean for that long.

Remember, this device was mostly used by detention centers !

Oh, look, a racism.

Or that crazy woman in MISERY

@xlioilx with that kind of spelling ("sing of", "they would of"), you really don't have the right to criticize anyone's linguistic skills.

More like some German folklore creature that punishes children for not cleaning the windows properly. Like Krampus, you know.

Mats 50s equipment!

20 years each

With early 1900s Mid Atlantic accents.

@@LikaLaruku The teacher's voice sounded like a northern southern American accent. Say Tennessee or Kentucky.

@@killerbee2562 Oklahoma. For sure. My grandma speaks like that.

Yamaha had a playcard system for certain keyboards. But those just contained digital instructions on a magnetic strip.

Haloid Kusnetsov interesting

There is an even older technology that used paper to store music. Ever seen a Player Piano? Those used a large spool of paper with holes punched into it that told the pianos which keys to press. One could say this is the same idea with just a little electronic technology added in.

Now that's a program listing page

I like that idea. They could have come in computer magazines.

yes please

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Cyranek Didn’t expect to see you here LOL

How tf u get here Cyranek

Don't you need a sharpened number two pencil for a needle?

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Oklahoma's legislature doesn't buy things for education, they have the districts do it instead. This probably never saw a single school room, much less students. It was probably given out for free as advertising.

@@absalomdraconis Yeah, a lot schools have one smartboard to show off to potential donors how high tech their school is and that they should invest in education. But teachers and students are not allowed to use that one smartboard.

@@rubiconnn Some of us adventurous kids found it rolled into a corner and wanted to play with it, after the teacher gave us the OK we hooked it up to the projector and computer. Calibrating was a breeze. Played with it for like 30 minutes and had our fill of excitement for the class period.

As somebody who attended Oklahoma public schools in the 1970's, I'm pretty sure our school didn't have any of these.

@@davidbono9359 Sorry, was talking about smartboards that were around in 2000-ish.

Techmoan not only has a Tefi but keeps it hooked up to his HiFi. It's one of the formats he actually liked enough to manage to integrate into the already complicated setup.

Mono sound tends to do that.

pretty sure there was some spring/plate reverb or something like that, artificial reverb was a thing even then

I wonder which media became obsolete since techmoan started his channel! For example I recently bought an early 2000s pro audio device, it can transfer digital data via IDE, SCSI, CD-R or ADAT, none of which are useful for me without going through several hoops!

Fortunately IDE to USB devices exist.

yeah that’ll be the first option to try. An IDE to SATA converter was already built in, but for shortness I didn’t mention IDE is the internal storage, which uses some proprietary disk format. There are some old computer scripts that might be able to extract it. The SCSI is external, and seems to use standard formatting, the idea back then was to connect a SCSI ZIP drive. Maybe I can find some SCSI to CF card reader adapter. SCSI adapters seem to be super rare though

oh and also a generous supply of overhyped but eventually unsuccessful kickstarter projects to look back to !

VWestlife I went to Google this and the first result is a forum post by you. I also already subscribe to your channel. You're everywhere 😆

My bad - the woman was licking the mic, not the Sound Page.

Keith Johnson Ah ok, not that weird then ... lol

Keith Johnson You could just edit the comment...

nelo7149 - Canal Oficial No editing of comments if one is using a mobile device (or at least with Apple, have not tried an Android with RU-vid). But the OPs comment certainly made me laugh, there are some real characters in this world. Edit: I take that back, Google finally added an edit feature on iOS.

You're right. I didn't think.

And I might buy this obsolete stuff if it can store sounds in 50 year old paper it can hold it for 100 years.

Its not a small world. I just think your unlucky bro. : )

Jonathan Golden greetings to my neighbor north of me....in Hurst, Texas

I would consider myself unlucky if I'd never seen scissortails flying through the Ozarks, but I have. I might be unlucky if I couldn't find everything from warehouse raves to livestock shows in one town, but I can. I'd also consider myself unlucky if Ricoh didn't make me an admin and give me my own office...but they did. So, I might have to disagree with you. Come and visit the Big Friendly anytime, and I'll take you out for some cheese fondue.

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I THINK I vaugely remember using something like this in Pre-K in 1991.

Gotta love America and the lack of education budget.

Matthew Colville The schools I went to didn't use VHS machines until the 90's, so they were content with their 16mm film projectors and filmstrip thingys for quite a while, and the occasional 3/4" U-Matic VTR machine stuck on a TV cart that might be rolled into the classroom!

I walked into my kids' elementary school classroom last year, and was amazed to see the same brown cassette player I used in elementary school 30 years earlier.

Makayla Serniotti this comes from Oklahoma, whose teachers just walked out because it has one of the lowest investment in education in the US.

It still does.

Anders are you going to record music for this format, misusing old school equipment?

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Literally old school.

Techmoan does sarcasm very well.

It was a grand finale !!!

And also the creepy views of the system itself...

@@squidiskool What gets me is how the people giving instructions on how to give IQ tests keep stumbling over words, misreading their script, and genuinely don't seem to care at all.

@@spugintrntl Once you peel back the thin curtain, all of western education is exactly like that.

@@spugintrntl "... you will now have to change to sound page [CLATTER] number s-- eight." He shuffled around to check which page it was and STILL nearly got it wrong.

Yes, let's all inflict standardised testing on a child's art project, that will help them in life.

I don't know man, that Southern lady's accent is pretty hot.

Southern USA > rest of USA in everyway. The south in my opinion is less racist than most major northern cities. I'm not "white" and I've been everywhere in USA and experienced the opposite of what I've been told in media. The south east is so special, especially my home in the blue ridge mountains. Of course you have bad actors but the south gets a bad wrap because of their history, which is deserved but if people would move on things would be alot better. Most of the people who won't accept change are outside looking in, the people who embrace the culture are the ones who are defining the new south. Today you can be invited into a multicultural cookout as a complete stranger and have the best time of your life in the south. Hospitality is in our blood, so is lard ;-)

The thing that really makes me sad is that this is tech from the 70's; (which was considered niche at the time) that one can infer still hadn't been completely phased out of the curriculum by the mid 90's. And this was well before shit like "No Child Left Behind" was enacted.

@@cptnwcky : No, Oklahoma doesn't actually have a centralised education system. It's far more likely that this was given out for free as advertising. Chances are that this never saw a classroom.

brokenSCART Or just pissed that he got saddled with a girl's name. Why *do* Americans inflict that on their kids, anyway?

I thought i was the only one saying shhh shhh shhhit!

as soon as I saw SH I already imagined school kids writing SHIT.

It wasn't a girl's name yet.

It's mostly capacitors from the late 80s to early 90s that have major issues (look up the "capacitor plague" for more info).

@@alphamone Look up capacitor plague? For what? The shitty Wikipedia article where actual facts are constantly getting deleted (which has been ongoing for the past 10+ years) and the same old bullshit stories repeated because mainstream media has mentioned that drivel and therefore counts as a reliable source? No thanks lol

yup, he's right about that xD

Can confirm

PurpleTT99 -Agreed. Some sort of retro version of the Gadget Show would be a huge hit. But no, just more endless bloody X-Factor and Bake Off crap. No wonder no-one under the age of 40 bothers with the telly anymore.

mattzww yeah, I really thought he'd made that up. Recording audio on paper, what a daft idea :-)

JohnnyNismo Me neither, and I grew up there.

Lived here basically my entire life and I didnt know lol

And a mining company is now best known for making little sticky pads that come with GoPro and dashcams.

James Grimwood They are also known for various high quality glues and tapes, and for a long running dispute with the Minnesota State Government about cleaning up some old mess.

Not to mention being one of the first US manufacturers of reels of recording tape. And of course “ScotchTape”

Aliens !!! where !!

Alien Marmoset and Cleon Deon are timeless!

Or a segment called steakmoan reviewing all the cuts of beef out there and how to cook them properly.

Darksepheroth Rocking idea 🔊

Oh my god That made me laugh really hard!!!!!!! :D So funny

@Darksepheroth He'd definitely have to have LGR on board with that idea.

@@BertGrink Lol, I was just going to say that LGR would absolutely love that. Clint adores all things wood grain.

i think the reverb is due to the system since when techmoan seemed to be recording from the headphone output it sounded normal

Its been added for an dramatic effect to grab kids attention.

Well you can see what learning disabilities landed them in juvie. They're beyond dyslexic. They're Mega-lexic! (with reverb)

The Astro Gamer they could have made the paper circular. Would have been practical

But it would make drawing on it harder.

The Astro Gamer it would be a picture disc on paper instead of vinyl

If it was a circle you wouldn't be able to photocopy onto it or use standard printing equipment.

so no scratching :(

Same here.I don`t remember ever seeing one either(Ky).

I think part of it could be where she was from as well as when. Some family of mine in North Carolina sound like her.

What do you do when you see a black and white film?

@@tiberiu_nicolae The people with voices on the device were not born the year it came out...

The machine is from the 1970s, not the 1920s.

@@enricosanchez894 And many of the people were in the forties, and now would be in their nineties. Or older. Their lives have passed, whether they too have yet.

You must really hate laugh tracks! They were taped decades ago and there is a good chance that every laugh you hear is from a now deceased person.