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Things You Don't See Anymore Part 3
- Thread starter Richland123
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There is still NO reason to cover them with brittle plastic that shatters at the least impact costing you many hundreds of dollars. Give me a big honkin' aluminum beam mounted on springs.
Is it not still that way? I don't suppose I've bought a pack of standard gum in 30 years or more.
buldog5151bass
Kibble, milkbones, and P Basses. And redheads.
Metal is heavy, expensive, and doesn't crush to absorb the collision.
I love chrome, but the bumpers are a huge step up in safety.
So mount the large-metal-bumper-on-springs on the crushable consumable item, so if there's a low speed tap the spring loaded bumper just springs back without any damage; and if there's an impact at higher speed, the consumable thing crushes and can be replaced for a reasonable cost. Eliminate the thin fragile "bumper cover" that if you tap it in the parking lot it's likely to break and cost you $1000 to fix it. And most of the time you can't just drive it like that because it's attached with a bunch of snap fit tabs, that break off or distort so you can't snap it back in, and it hangs down and drags on the ground or your tire.
I remember this having a very small window between Super 8 and camcorders.
Back when "lasers" were vacuum tubes, not solid-state diodes?
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Ha!.........50 or 60 yeas ago, when we bought groceries, the store would roll the cart out to our cars and load it for us.
Don't see that anymore.
Don't see that anymore.
The baggers at Publix still offer do that, and will if you let them.
When I worked at Kinko's in college, we had this bad boy: A Xerox 5090. It was super fast, could be programmed to use different paper trays for the front and rear covers, and would offset collate and staple. At the far end was an automatic door that would open so the tray could slide out for easy removal of the copies. It was a beast!
The thing that gets me, is that in the 1980s, copy machines with document handlers would run about a page a second, or maybe two and a half seconds each for double sided.
Now in the 2025s, they can send emails, scan, blah blah blah, but it takes 10 seconds a page. and it takes you several minutes to cancel all the default settings that don't give you what you want, log in, etc., etc., etc.
Progress!
Now in the 2025s, they can send emails, scan, blah blah blah, but it takes 10 seconds a page. and it takes you several minutes to cancel all the default settings that don't give you what you want, log in, etc., etc., etc.
Progress!
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Back when landfill space was abundant...
And the contents of the recycling bins.
Hang on.... aren't we supposed to be paperless by now? Computers were supposed to fix all this.
I used to run versions of this A&M Multigraphics Total Copy System Printing Press. I worked in a printing department for 15 years at an electric utility company.
