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13 Tech Sounds You Just Don’t Hear Anymore
Laptopmag.com | LiveScience.com via Yahoo ^
| Jun 6, 2012
| By Avram Piltch
Posted on 06/07/2012 10:43:43 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
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To: US Navy Vet
If we do not get the progressives in both parties out of power... you will be hearing only the cry of the hungry and miserable and the distinctive clink of the locks on the cells that the communists will use to imprison us Conservatives while we await execution.
LLS
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posted on
06/07/2012 11:24:19 AM PDT
by
LibLieSlayer
(Don't Tread On Me)
To: USMCPOP
Yup!
We loaded that on a co-worker’s PC as a gag but for some reason it ran at too high of a speed to get the full effect.
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posted on
06/07/2012 11:25:27 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: LibLieSlayer
distinctive clink of the locks on the cells that the communists will use to imprison us Conservatives while we await execution. They usually try reeducation first. Watch the last half of The Killing Fields to see their SOP
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posted on
06/07/2012 11:28:19 AM PDT
by
Cowman
(How can the IRS seize property without a warrant if the 4th amendment still stands?)
To: US Navy Vet
Dot Matrix Printout ... There was something hypnotically relaxing about the sound of the chirpy print moving from left to right as reams of paper slowly pulled past it. The apex of which was the Dot Matrix Symphony, an actual musical stage performance using multiple dot matrix printers.
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posted on
06/07/2012 11:30:00 AM PDT
by
ctdonath2
($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com)
To: US Navy Vet
"lived in constant fear that, if we forgot to be kind and rewind" I always said the policy should be: Do Not Rewind After Viewing Do you see the wisdom? That way everyone must rewind before they view!
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posted on
06/07/2012 11:32:59 AM PDT
by
I see my hands
(It's time to.. KICK OUT THE JAMS, MOTHER FREEPERS!)
To: Elderberry
hah.... i slept under the THIRD wire... but I worked night shift, so i got to listen to it all day while trying to sleep.... SCCRREEECHHHHH.... BANG... WHOOOSH..... DRAGGING SOUND....SLAPPING OF WIRE WHILE COMING BACK UNDER TENSION.. then about a minute later, repeat..
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posted on
06/07/2012 11:35:11 AM PDT
by
joe fonebone
(I am the 15%)
To: GingisK
The sound of a vacuum column tape drive auto-loading was musical. it was musical except for those times you instead heard the irritating fwap fwap fwap fwap fwap fwap fwap sound.
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posted on
06/07/2012 11:35:58 AM PDT
by
commish
(Freedom tastes sweetest to those who have fought to preserve it.)
To: joe fonebone; Elderberry
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posted on
06/07/2012 11:41:33 AM PDT
by
US Navy Vet
(Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
To: commish
The Iomega Zip Drive “Click of Death”
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posted on
06/07/2012 11:43:01 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: commish
...the irritating fwap fwap fwap fwap fwap fwap fwap sound... Yep, that was irritating. Splice kit, here we come! Funny when you mentioned it.
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posted on
06/07/2012 11:43:17 AM PDT
by
GingisK
To: joe fonebone
On board I could sleep through anything.
But when I got to sleep at my rent house on the beach. I had to take my pocket watch and bury it in the dresser under my shorts or I couldn’t sleep because of all that dang ticking.
To: US Navy Vet
To: Elderberry
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posted on
06/07/2012 11:46:33 AM PDT
by
US Navy Vet
(Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
To: US Navy Vet
To: US Navy Vet
on the fid I slept under the third wire... on the kennedy it was under the starboard bow cats... i worked the flight deck, plane captain
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posted on
06/07/2012 11:48:36 AM PDT
by
joe fonebone
(I am the 15%)
To: oyez
KYW News in Philadelphia used to keep a microphone live in the teletype machine as background sound for cutting news stories. They switched to a recorded teletype sound rather than live sounds due to announcers running to the machine, reading the story and immediately responding with swear words!
I think they still use the recorded sounds of the teletype machine on their news broadcasts.
To: dfwgator
Interval Signals for Shortwave Radio stations.You can still hear them out there, although I wonder how many of us still listen to shortwave. It might be a really smart thing for people to rediscover SW radio right about now. Just a guess...
Great historical collection of interval signals here: http://www.intervalsignals.net.
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posted on
06/07/2012 11:50:14 AM PDT
by
andy58-in-nh
(America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
To: GingisK
I’m dating myself as I too remember that sound from the old Univac 1100 data tapes.
To: andy58-in-nh
I still go to that site occasionally. Brings back a lot of memories...unfortunately most of the big broadcasters have abandoned SW to North America.
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posted on
06/07/2012 11:54:37 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: tired&retired
I remember going into the control room when all the equipment was down.
The silence was deafening.
It’s amazing what you get desensitized to.
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