Kids today will never know the joy... the UNIVERSES that opened when this was delivered to your home

[MiddleFingerMom]

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[Duer 157099]

1. ROFL

Really, really good, lol :thumbsup:

[sakabatou]

2. What really is that thing?

[jobycom]

3. First edition cell phone.

[MiddleFingerMom]

4. Haven't a clue -- although...

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...I thought I was on to something when I started looking at the Kingston Mills
locks (like the Panama Canal) off Lake Ontario. It LOOKS like a huge safe door
or turning mechanism or coupling of some sort -- but nothing I could see about
the locks would explain that.
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Anybody?
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I didn't realize just HOW funny this is (the massiveness of "antique" computer
components seems unreal now) until I found that Kingston is a major supplier of
flash drives today.
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[hunter]

7. I used to wheel these babies through the repair shop...

from Chris Pickles


That's a 10 megabyte hard drive and it weighs more than a washing machine. It uses more power too.

Notice the poor thing in this photo is standing outside naked with its cover off. When I quit that job to go back to school we were still repairing these drives for some clients.

[rurallib]

6. I am going to take a stab (not as funny as MFMs caption)

Think I saw a pic like that many moons ago
is that a very early version of an MRI? Heard they used to park them and build a room around them.
This is a guess.

[NickB79]

8. It looks like pieces for the Large Hadron Collider

Or possibly some other large particle accelerator used by a national/international physics lab.

[nolabear]

5. LOL! Reminds me of a catalogue the Duke U.geek boys used to get in the 80's

I can't remember the name of it but it had ad after ad for surplus stuff that garage nerds could use to build their own...whatever. One ad read something like "radio gear, 300 lb., $50." Figuring any box that had 300 lb of gear was sure to have enough great stuff to be useful.

Yep, it was a gear. A giant gear used to turn an antenna. I think they made "lawn art" out of it, i.e. it's rusting away somewhere on a lawn in Durham, NC.