I was cleaning out my house a few months ago, and had a box of 5.25 and 3.5” floppies. Showed them to my daughter, she said “so that’s where the save icon on Google Docs comes from!”…at least she got the reference, but I’d never stopped to think that she had no idea what that icon symbolized. Dan On Jul 26, 2013, at 9:56 AM, Joe Bauman <josephmbauman@yahoo.com> wrote:
You should see the obsolete technology we have! In addition to a TV with no converter (we don't have cable), we have VHS recorders (one that Cory uses every day for her soap), bags full of stuff like dial-up modems and beam splitters, my first IBM computer with two floppy drives, bags of disks of 5 1/4 and 3" (?) size, a movie camera that uses tape, several film cameras including my dear old Hasselblad, a large boom box that runs on batteries, a smaller black and white TV that runs on batteries (we were given it in exchange for listening to a presentation at a crematorium) which also has no converter, a movie projector, a stereo slide viewer, etc. etc. It's pretty silly. -- Joe
________________________________ From: Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Friday, July 26, 2013 7:29 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Cosmos re-booted.
I just bit the bullet and ordered the DVD set from Amazon. $63.20 plus shipping (rate depends on shipping method selected), so that's about five bucks per episode, not bad. They have 6 copies left in stock at Amazon. More buying options from Amazon sellers.
I didn't want to dig out the old VCR and hook it up. It's been in a box in the basement for about ten or twelve years. And THEN I'd have to locate the VHS tapes. Probably all that stuff is down there next to my Victrola and 8mm movie camera & projector. The Hards wing of the Obsolete Technology museum.
The DVDs aren't far behind in joining them.
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 7:12 AM, Ed <utnatsedj1@xmission.com> wrote:
Jamie,
As far as I can tell, the Cosmos shows are blocked on YouTube for copyright reasons. Do you know of a YouTube or other URL where these shows are not blocked?
Ed ----------------------------
On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 02:54:51 -0600 [07/25/2013 02:54:51 AM MDT] Jamie Bradley <astro@jamiebradley.com> wrote:
The entire original 1980 Cosmos series is available on YouTube and Netflix
and many other online venues. I love watching the show with my dad back in the day.
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