👻I managed 20/20 and my bones are dust.
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@drwho @MsMerope @Shards That's because the picture is accurate for a floppy disk. Just to be annoying, the ones that feel floppy were called mini disks. I think that's because their predecessors were large versions of the same sort of thing. I'm pretty sure the "floppy" disk was so called to differentiate it from a "hard" disk, which was internal to the computer.
Yes, this has bothered me since the 90s.
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I managed 20/20 and my bones are dust.
@Shards
All except 13 and 20. Now if you swap that USA blockbuster for a generic “rented a video in a store” I have done that.Checks haven’t been a thing in my country for like 50 years
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I managed 20/20 and my bones are dust.
@Shards there was no blockbuster in France...
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I managed 20/20 and my bones are dust.
@Shards 20/20, with the caveats that I'm not 100% I ever brought a boom box outdoors and it was my parents who owned the encyclopedia, technically.
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@GroupNebula563 @Shards, that makes sense; it is the vibe it gives off.
@Halfdan @GroupNebula563
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I managed 20/20 and my bones are dust.
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Really??? You think nobody got all 20? I guess you may technically be correct, in that the portable tape player I used was not made by Sony. -
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I managed 20/20 and my bones are dust.
@Shards Allow me to add some perspective.
I recorded on wire. Yes a wire recorder.
Dial phone? What about no dial "get me Aldritch 1427".
Seen a TV test pattern at midnight with a Native American on one of the three channels
C'mon some of you have more
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I managed 20/20 and my bones are dust.
Apparently this is AI generated; I am so sorry for not noticing. It sucks that this is the world we are being forced into, where we have to analyse everything to such a degree.
Generative AI can eat my entire ass.
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If you're adding in extras, I’ll claim your 22 and add in another for my V-Cord II, a precursor to VHS and Betamax by Sanyo that was the first videotape player able to pause the picture. Add another for saving files from my Texas Instruments TI-99 to a cassette tape. That puts my score at 24, if you’ll allow it -
Apparently this is AI generated; I am so sorry for not noticing. It sucks that this is the world we are being forced into, where we have to analyse everything to such a degree.
Generative AI can eat my entire ass.
@Shards Are you sure? it looks too normal and well done.
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I managed 20/20 and my bones are dust.
@Shards I've actually done all those once common things. But I'm ancient...
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I managed 20/20 and my bones are dust.
@Shards I've done all 20, not that rare for an old millennial
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@Shards Allow me to add some perspective.
I recorded on wire. Yes a wire recorder.
Dial phone? What about no dial "get me Aldritch 1427".
Seen a TV test pattern at midnight with a Native American on one of the three channels
C'mon some of you have more
@randulo @Shards Yep, I can add all those. The wire recorder I used was a Silvertone unit that also included an AM radio and a record turntable, where the turntable doubled as a wire spool. Adding your list to mine brings me up to 29 out of 20. The operator I interacted with was making connections from the WYandott exchange, and let's not leave out eavesdropping via party lines. Yep--I'm familiar. Very. -

I managed 20/20 and my bones are dust.
@Shards 20/20, though as a European, it wasn’t Blockbuster but some other video store;
and I only used cheques a handful of times during a stay in the U.S. in the mid-90s.
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@Shards Are you sure? it looks too normal and well done.
@Yuriel I’m not sure, but others have pointed it out. I hate not being sure of reality anymore.
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I managed 20/20 and my bones are dust.
@Shards 12/20 does that mean i'm still young?

