Movies with a laughably obsolete tech device. Name the device.
1. Wall Street (1987) - the huge cordless phone
1. Wall Street (1987) - the huge cordless phone
2. Say Anything... (1989) - the famous big tape deck boombox
1. Wall Street (1987) - the huge cordless phone
2. Say Anything... (1989) - the famous big tape deck boombox
3) WarGames (1983) - Dial Up Modem
1. Wall Street (1987) - the huge cordless phone
2. Say Anything....(1989)- the famous big tape deck boombox
3. Wargames (1983)- dial up modem
4. Smokey and the Bandit (1977) - CB radio
CB radios are still being used today.
share95%+ truckers don't have them, they use digital GPS maps now to guide them.
But your right fire/ambulance/police still use a type of CB.
I will take it down if the OP request it.
So are boom boxes. How else can you play cassettes outdoors w/o headphones?
shareNobody plays cassetes outdoor w/o headphones anymore.
shareWhat is your definition of "nobody"?
shareIt depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is.
shareGood one !
I have so many great memories of listening to Cassettes on camping trips, I think I still have a boom box that might accommodate this, as well as the tapes.
But there is a movie My Name Is Nobody, so that works.
And for the definition of "Is", I'll leave to lawyers and other onion peelers.
1. Wall Street (1987) - the huge cordless phone
2. Say Anything....(1989)- the famous big tape deck boombox
3. Wargames (1983)- dial up modem
4. Smokey and the Bandit (1977) - CB radio
5) Back to the Future (1985) - the cabinet TV with the small screen
Two points from my post requiring Who to make the call.
1) Would this this count since it was a period piece.
2) I left CB in
> 1) Would this this count since it was a period piece.
Period piece? Wall Street was made in 1987 and was set in 1985. Wouldn't that be just set in the (then) present?
Sorry, let me clarify. I'm talking about the 1955 scene since the movie is based from 1985
share> I'm talking about the 1955 scene
Oh, I see what happened. Sorry I misunderstood you. When you put the number 1 before that comment I thought you were tagging it as referring to movie 1 on the list, Wall Street. That's what I get for posting before I've had my morning coffee. Sorry about that.
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No problem. Hope I clarified it. Looks like the others beyond aren't counting it.
shareI am OK with it. My idea was any old clunky outdated tech that would amuse a modern day audience. Sorry took long to reply. Got distracted trying to figure out how to use my tech Xmas gifts.
share1. Wall Street (1987) - the huge cordless phone
2. Say Anything....(1989)- the famous big tape deck boombox
3. Wargames (1983)- dial up modem
4. Smokey and the Bandit (1977) - CB radio
5. Auntie Mame (1958) The scene where Mame has a job at as a switchboard operator.
1. Wall Street (1987) - the huge cordless phone
2. Say Anything....(1989)- the famous big tape deck boombox
3. Wargames (1983)- dial up modem
4. Smokey and the Bandit (1977) - CB radio
5. Auntie Mame (1958) The scene where Mame has a job at as a switchboard operator.
6. Journey To The Center Of Time (1967) -- 9 track magnetic tape drives in computers ... Many other movies had them, this is the only one I recall with absolute certainty
1. Wall Street (1987) - the huge cordless phone
2. Say Anything....(1989) - the famous big tape deck boombox
3. Wargames (1983) - dial up modem
4. Smokey and the Bandit (1977) - CB radio
5. Auntie Mame (1958) - The scene where Mame has a job at as a switchboard operator.
6. Journey To The Center Of Time (1967) - 9 track magnetic tape drives in computers ... Many other movies had them, this is the only one I recall with absolute certainty
7. Titanic (1997) - Radiotelegraphy using Morse code. State-of-the-art for 1912. Radio transmission of voices (radiotelephony) became possible only a few years later during World War I.
> Radiotelegraphy using Morse code.
Good one. I got my ham radio license in the late 1970s, and did a lot of Morse code as did a lot of other hams. It was already long obsolete even then, but still fun to do. Now it's so obsolete that few hams use it anymore.
Thank you. Ham radio broadcasting sounds interesting.
share> Ham radio broadcasting sounds interesting.
I've still got the license, although I don't use it much anymore. I was into HF communications, frequencies from 3.5 to 28.3 MHz. You can talk with people anywhere in the world, but it requires some big antennas. I haven't had one up in a while and don't think I'll go to the trouble again. There is VHF, 144 MHz, which can be done with a handheld. I might give that a shot one of these days. But that's a much shorter range.
There were and are some hams doing cutting edge things, but most use mature or even obsolete technologies. When I got into it most were using FM, SSB, and CW (Morse), none of which were at all new. What was different about it was cutting edge capabilities, even if with old technologies. There was simply no way for an ordinary person to gab in real time with someone an ocean away, whether gabbing was by voice or CW. This was even before international direct dialing; I had to make a phone call once from here (USA) to the UK in connection with some school project, and it took twenty minutes for the four operators involved to place the call. So being able to tap Morse on a straight key or pick up a microphone and talk to someone in the Ukraine was pretty cool, something few people could do.
One day I went hunting on the radio for someone in the UK; the Wimbledon match had already been played but we were getting a delayed replay here, and if I could find out in advance who had already won I could make some money on a bet. Arnold Rothstein would have been proud! :) Nowdays with the Internet, anyone can talk anywhere, so I guess I can't do that again.
If you're interested and you're in the USA, here's a link http://www.arrl.org/
That's the big amateur radio member society in the USA. If you're somewhere else, here's a list of similar societies by country https://www.iaru.org/reference/member-societies/
Thank you for those links.
shareGood to know a ham radio operator in your area. If a natural disaster wipes out everything else, this is still the best way to call for help, let loved ones know you are OK...
share> If a natural disaster wipes out everything else, this is still the best way to call for help, let loved ones know you are OK...
With all the commercial stations out there, plus aviation, police, fire departments, ambulances, paramedics, military, there's a lot of demand for a limited span of frequencies which can be put to practical use. This kind of emergency capability is one of the justifications for ham radio's continuing existence. Those sorts of disasters don't happen very often, but occasionally hams do get called into things. After the Nashville bomb a few days ago, we (SE KY) were without cell phone service for an entire day and landline service for part of a day. We never lost Internet service as far as I could tell. Still, not everyone has a home Internet connection, and there were some hams passing "I'm OK" messages along.
I had a nice but not expensive Magnavox stereo when I was in high school, turntable on top and radio built in.
I thought it was a pretty cool unit back then.
But I had a neighbor a couple houses away, and he'd fire up his - whatever the communication device was - and if I was playing a record, he would break in at twice (easily) the volume of what I was listening to, which was probably damn loud. God ! I would jump out of my skin, and it felt like a personal affront. I'm innocently trying to enjoy my rock n roll and some JO blasts off with his pointless Ham or CB yammering.
If I could have had a heart attack at fifteen years old, I surely would have.
Ouch! Did you complain to him? If not, you should have. Hams are legally required to avoid interfering with others' radio, TV, et cetera, even if necessary restricting their activities to off-hours when neighbors won't be using those things. But I've gotta say, what you're describing is a heck of a lot of interference, and it sounds more like your stereo was defective or improperly grounded. When I transmitted on my ham rig, which ran at average power for such a transmitter (about 150W), it didn't even inferfere with the TV or stereo in our house.
shareHey, I don't know ! This was back in the 70s -- the Wild West, so to speak.
I would jump out of my skin and it took me a while to figure out what was going on.
But m-f -- suddenly out of nowhere this loud m-f would bust into my evening, and So LOUD !
Really not his fault, tbh, but sure as hell irritating at the time.
I just figured my record player tone arm or some damn thing picked up his frequency, but my god, it was over-powering the volume of my own entertainment. A bullhorn in your ear while listening to the ripples of the river. My God !
1. Wall Street (1987) - the huge cordless phone
2. Say Anything....(1989) - the famous big tape deck boombox
3. Wargames (1983) - dial up modem
4. Smokey and the Bandit (1977) - CB radio
5. Auntie Mame (1958) - The scene where Mame has a job at as a switchboard operator.
6. Journey To The Center Of Time (1967) - 9 track magnetic tape drives in computers ... Many other movies had them, this is the only one I recall with absolute certainty
7. Titanic (1997) - Radiotelegraphy using Morse code. State-of-the-art for 1912. Radio transmission of voices (radiotelephony) became possible only a few years later during World War I.
8. Real Genius (1986) - The tape recorders