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Tech Quiz- What is the brown box with a single red button?
Posted by: mikebw
Date: September 18, 2020 05:05PM
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Re: Tech Quiz- What is the brown box with a single red button?
Posted by: wurm
Date: September 18, 2020 05:10PM
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Re: Tech Quiz- What is the brown box with a single red button?
Posted by: macphanatic
Date: September 18, 2020 05:32PM
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Re: Tech Quiz- What is the brown box with a single red button?
Posted by: Paul F.
Date: September 18, 2020 05:35PM
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mikebw
(presumably some early pocket calculator)
(thinking some early motion picture coin-op thing)
Microfilm Reader...
(early laptop with no screen?)
That, sir, was my first computer! A Timex-Sinclair 1000! You hook it to a TV, and a cassette tape player.
(early radio console?)
(Not a theramin, my scientist wife guessed atomic force microscope (AFM), but that didn't take)
Early Transistor, I think?
(clear computer??)
Micro-Fiche reader. Little sheets of film with like 10 pages of text on 'em.
(early workstation?)
Re: Tech Quiz- What is the brown box with a single red button?
Posted by: Lew Zealand
Date: September 18, 2020 05:40PM
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Re: Tech Quiz- What is the brown box with a single red button?
Posted by: BernDog
Date: September 18, 2020 05:40PM
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Re: Tech Quiz- What is the brown box with a single red button?
Posted by: macphanatic
Date: September 18, 2020 05:41PM
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Re: Tech Quiz- What is the brown box with a single red button?
Posted by: Lew Zealand
Date: September 18, 2020 05:49PM
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Posted by: BernDog
Date: September 18, 2020 05:54PM
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Re: Tech Quiz- What is the brown box with a single red button?
Posted by: Forrest
Date: September 18, 2020 06:08PM
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Re: Tech Quiz- What is the brown box with a single red button?
Posted by: NewtonMP2100
Date: September 18, 2020 06:18PM
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Re: Tech Quiz- What is the brown box with a single red button?
Posted by: N-OS X-tasy!
Date: September 18, 2020 06:32PM
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Re: Tech Quiz- What is the brown box with a single red button?
Posted by: N-OS X-tasy!
Date: September 18, 2020 06:39PM
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Re: Tech Quiz- What is the brown box with a single red button?
Posted by: macphanatic
Date: September 18, 2020 06:56PM
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Re: Tech Quiz- What is the brown box with a single red button?
Posted by: Paul F.
Date: September 18, 2020 08:17PM
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Re: Tech Quiz- What is the brown box with a single red button?
Posted by: Buzz
Date: September 18, 2020 08:49PM
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Re: Tech Quiz- What is the brown box with a single red button?
Posted by: mikebw
Date: September 18, 2020 08:53PM
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macphanatic
clear computer is Apple 1
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Paul F.
Got 32 right...
The one below the 8 track tape has me stumped. It's a recording device, but I'm not getting the right term, apparently. Ditto on the TV with rabbit ears. It's clearly a TV of some sort, but TV and Television don't work.
The last full row, the first three have me stumped. And the name of the calculator...
Re: Tech Quiz- What is the brown box with a single red button?
Posted by: rgG
Date: September 18, 2020 08:58PM
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Paul F.
Got 32 right...
The one below the 8 track tape has me stumped. It's a recording device, but I'm not getting the right term, apparently. Ditto on the TV with rabbit ears. It's clearly a TV of some sort, but TV and Television don't work.
The last full row, the first three have me stumped. And the name of the calculator...
Re: Tech Quiz- What is the brown box with a single red button?
Posted by: mikebw
Date: September 18, 2020 09:02PM
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Re: Tech Quiz- What is the brown box with a single red button?
Posted by: mikebw
Date: September 18, 2020 09:12PM
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Re: Tech Quiz- What is the brown box with a single red button?
Posted by: Blankity Blank
Date: September 18, 2020 10:29PM
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Re: Tech Quiz- What is the brown box with a single red button?
Posted by: timg
Date: September 18, 2020 10:44PM
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mikebw
Thanks, we've got it down to the The final four:
1.
(I thought maybe an early Pong, but no)
2.
( I still think an early movie / stop motion thing as we've all tried microfiche/film)
3.
( console music thing ? )
4.
( still thinking an early IBM desk computer ? )
Re: Tech Quiz- What is the brown box with a single red button?
Posted by: Buzz
Date: September 18, 2020 10:45PM
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Re: Tech Quiz- What is the brown box with a single red button?
Posted by: Forrest
Date: September 18, 2020 10:54PM
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Re: Tech Quiz- What is the brown box with a single red button?
Posted by: N-OS X-tasy!
Date: September 18, 2020 11:08PM
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rgG
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Paul F.
Got 32 right...
The one below the 8 track tape has me stumped. It's a recording device, but I'm not getting the right term, apparently. Ditto on the TV with rabbit ears. It's clearly a TV of some sort, but TV and Television don't work.
The last full row, the first three have me stumped. And the name of the calculator...
I can’t get the recording thing either. It should be either a Betamax or VCR but it won’t take either.
The TV is a Sony Trinatron. The colored bars give it away.
Re: Tech Quiz- What is the brown box with a single red button?
Posted by: Sarcany
Date: September 19, 2020 12:35AM
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Re: Tech Quiz- What is the brown box with a single red button?
Posted by: N-OS X-tasy!
Date: September 19, 2020 12:53AM
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mikebw
3.
( console music thing ? )
Re: Tech Quiz- What is the brown box with a single red button?
Posted by: N-OS X-tasy!
Date: September 19, 2020 01:24AM
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Re: Tech Quiz- What is the brown box with a single red button?
Posted by: N-OS X-tasy!
Date: September 19, 2020 01:49AM
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Posted by: Sarcany
Date: September 19, 2020 12:03PM
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Re: Tech Quiz- What is the brown box with a single red button?
Posted by: macphanatic
Date: September 19, 2020 01:00PM
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Re: Tech Quiz- What is the brown box with a single red button?
Posted by: Sarcany
Date: September 19, 2020 01:47PM
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Posted by: space-time
Date: September 19, 2020 02:07PM
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Posted by: space-time
Date: September 19, 2020 02:10PM
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Re: Tech Quiz- What is the brown box with a single red button?
Posted by: Buzz
Date: September 19, 2020 02:26PM
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Re: Tech Quiz- What is the brown box with a single red button?
Posted by: N-OS X-tasy!
Date: September 19, 2020 02:35PM
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Buzz
For example, I *knew* the 32nd item was a mid 70's VHS recorder, but it didn't pop in until I typed "JVC" in front of it.
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Re: Tech Quiz- What is the brown box with a single red button?
Posted by: Sarcany
Date: September 19, 2020 03:59PM
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Re: Tech Quiz- What is the brown box with a single red button?
Posted by: Sarcany
Date: September 19, 2020 04:01PM
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Re: Tech Quiz- What is the brown box with a single red button?
Posted by: Buzz
Date: September 19, 2020 05:55PM
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Sarcany
I really got thrown by the Thinkpad of all things. It looked like a Toshiba to me. Didn't have the little orange nubbin.
Re: Tech Quiz- What is the brown box with a single red button?
Posted by: rgG
Date: September 19, 2020 06:15PM
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N-OS X-tasy!
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Buzz
For example, I *knew* the 32nd item was a mid 70's VHS recorder, but it didn't pop in until I typed "JVC" in front of it.
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Same here -- it is obviously a first-gen VCR. Funny thing is, I'm pretty sure I tried JVC with no result. I tried VCR, VHS, Betamax, Sony, and -- I thought -- JVC. It wasn't until I entered "Victor" that it popped for me.
Re: Tech Quiz- What is the brown box with a single red button?
Posted by: N-OS X-tasy!
Date: September 19, 2020 06:41PM
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Re: Tech Quiz- What is the brown box with a single red button?
Posted by: N-OS X-tasy!
Date: September 19, 2020 06:43PM
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Buzz
For example, I *knew* the 32nd item was a mid 70's VHS recorder, but it didn't pop in until I typed "JVC" in front of it.
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Same here -- it is obviously a first-gen VCR. Funny thing is, I'm pretty sure I tried JVC with no result. I tried VCR, VHS, Betamax, Sony, and -- I thought -- JVC. It wasn't until I entered "Victor" that it popped for me.
I think that was being way too picky. I kept typing in all those other things, too, and no go. Never would have occurred to me it was a JVC
Re: Tech Quiz- What is the brown box with a single red button?
Posted by: PeterB
Date: September 19, 2020 09:19PM
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Re: Tech Quiz- What is the brown box with a single red button?
Posted by: Buzz
Date: September 19, 2020 10:33PM
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Re: Tech Quiz- What is the brown box with a single red button?
Posted by: Sarcany
Date: September 19, 2020 11:17PM
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Re: Tech Quiz- What is the brown box with a single red button?
Posted by: Buzz
Date: September 20, 2020 01:04AM
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Re: Tech Quiz- What is the brown box with a single red button?
Posted by: N-OS X-tasy!
Date: September 20, 2020 11:43PM
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Buzz
I really got into WWII decryption stuff, especially because of the logic it employed, so the result isn't lost on me; but I gotta say that is possibly the worst representation out of any of the 45 items shown in the quiz. I never, ever, woulda gotten there based on that pic; my 30,000' view was/is just too biased.
Re: Tech Quiz- What is the brown box with a single red button?
Posted by: Schpark
Date: September 21, 2020 10:34AM
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