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[Multicore]

Holy cow. The magic eye has disappeared from google.

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Yes. Used that. dropped a deck of punched cards. there was a telex machine at work but I never used it or saw it used. I did ask about it but nobody knew.

I once had the job of booting and shutting down a PDP8 from its front panel keys.

Am I old yet?

 

[Soandso]

Digital kills some sayings -

 

[Buckaroo Shanzai]

 

[Buckaroo Shanzai]

 

[Multicore]

That of the old (should I even state that they were old???) tube radios, indicating how close you were to the strongest signal / freq

Lovely and effective. I remember, thankfully. My friend, when I was a wee wean, and fairly close neighbor Mark's dad was a BBC broadcast engineer and radio ham with a vast collection of old treasures/obsolete junk. Some of it worked. We had lots of fun with it.

Holy cow. The magic eye has disappeared from google.

Yeah, when I read that I could only think of magic eye stereograms.

Presumably, I try to steer clear of that black arts but..., I suppose an AI can do a wonderful job along the lines of: create a magic eye stereogram in the style of a Pieter Bruegel the elder woodcut of of a mythological duck walking into a bar with a manticore and a sphinx and asking the nature of the mythnderstanding.

 

[Chaconne]

Digital kills some sayings -

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Huh??

 

[Nutul]

Am I old yet?

No f***ing way, stay assured.

 

[mhardy6647]

My Sherwood FM tuner(s)* have magic eye tuning indicators of the "waterfall" type. Quite attractive but I've yet to manage to take a very good photo of one.

This image isn't too bad, but it is overexposed with respect to the magic eye (CRT).

The EICO HFT-90 also uses a magic eye tuning indicator, but it's a little counterintuitive. The "exclamation point" is tuned to maximum opening between the line and the dot (so to speak).

There's a nice website with magic eye tube information and pictures (animations).

All About Magic Eye Tubes

www.magiceyetubes.com

There's a pretty good simulation of what the tube above 'actually' looks like as it reacts to changing signal strength.

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* the newest of the lot, an S-3000V, has a meter. Ho-hum...

 

[thewas]

 

[dkinric]

 

[thegeton]

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All except 19. Too poor for both the encyclopedia set and a bookcase large enough to hold it.

 

[rationaltime]

 

[respice finem]

Story of my life (only with humans). But I don't mind, really.

 

[Bleib]

 

[Robin L]

 

[ryanosaur]

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Too f'n funny! Of course, when you start singing Happy Birthday in Solfege syllables, it way, WAY too late, already!

 

[Bleib]

 

[jkasch]

 

[Robin L]

 

[Robin L]