Modem Times

Welcome to Modem Times, a bulletin board of old geekery. Here we collate the dreams of yesteryear and save them to laserdisc. You never know, someday we may need all this old stuff again...

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More vintage #tech another time. Don't forget to keep your rollerball clean...

I think he's enjoying that laptop a little too much...

OS/2 - this was the future once...

Life on a server farm...

Mobile computing...

"Hello Helpdesk? This new computer you gave me isn't working..."

She is literally injecting that computer with anti-virus software...

Let's quickly head back to the heyday of Yugoslavian computer magazines: a happy place where kernel panic is unknown and Visual Basic is enough for most people...

To be fair they are the right size for posting...

Wait, tumble dryers used to use flames!? #SundayThoughts

That's a bit harsh on the mighty legacy of the sandwich toaster... #cookery

...it's a mainframe!

The 1969 Honeywell Kitchen #Computer. Only $70,000 brand new. And the best bit is...

We forget how beer cans used to look. Don't confuse it with the silver polish! #beeroclock

Fun fact: the concept was based on studying the neck of a giraffe, which needs to be both flexible and rigid at the same time! #FridayThoughts #space

It's only a concept at the moment, but the biomechanical spacesuit may be a way to allow more flexibility for EVA use, as well as saving space.

Traditional EVA spacesuits trap a layer of air across the skin to pressurised the suit, but that inhibits movement and adds bulk.

This is rather cool. It's an EVA spacesuit that uses mechanical pressure from coiled wires to maintain pressurisation.

"OK Rodney, play it cool..."