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Old 01-29-2012, 12:06 AM   #31
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Old 01-29-2012, 12:27 AM   #32
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The Washington DC subway system has these reusable fare cards that are really fragile. They crack when you keep them in your wallet and they stop working. I hollowed out this cassette and put the fare card inside to protect it. The wireless signal from the card easily broadcasts through the cassette case.
"He pictures his fare card with no crease or no seam..."
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Old 01-30-2012, 07:50 AM   #33
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Nice.

Long ago, my friend would record music on a VHS tape. It held hours of tunes, and during a party, he didn't have to change albums.
I remember this was a thing that DIY audiophiles did. The VHS tape was very wide and stored a lot of information, so you could get very high quality sound reproduction and also store more music. It was better sound than you could get from a reel to reel machine and far better than you could get on a cassette. But you had to know some electronics to modify your VCR so it only recorded audio over the entire tape instead of using the tape of audio and video.

I bet there's a website somewhere now that explains how it was done.
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Old 01-30-2012, 08:16 AM   #34
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I have pretty much my entire library of vinyl and CDs converted to mp3s. The Zings graduation parties were pretty much all day things. I never had to touch the music.
This guy did it BCD (before CDs).
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Old 01-30-2012, 10:16 AM   #35
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Thats when everyone did it - BCD's.
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Old 01-30-2012, 02:18 PM   #36
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This guy did it BCD (before CDs).
Right. Knew that. In fact I did the same thing. The point was how far things have come.
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Old 01-31-2012, 12:04 PM   #37
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On many mice, if you press the center scroll wheel, it puts you in 4-way scroll mode, and all you have to do is move your mouse around to pan.
This is much more a function of the mouse DRIVER and less about the specific mouse.
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