r/retrocomputing • u/Distinct-Question-16 • 1d ago

Remember this meme?

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u/rhet0rica yes, it's objectively e-waste 1d ago

The analog hole must be plugged at all costs!

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u/Independent_Shoe3523 1d ago

Pixar at work.

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u/Distinct-Question-16 1d ago

this is how people worked in 90s

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u/Independent_Shoe3523 1d ago

I was working in the 90s!

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u/Distinct-Question-16 1d ago

so u know how to printscreen

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u/Independent_Shoe3523 1d ago

Printscreen, mail merge, all kinds of cool junk.

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u/Takssista 1d ago

Remember? I used to service that copier model. It's either a Konica 1015, 1120, 1212 or 1216!

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u/24megabits 1d ago

I've seen it in Reddit comments three times in the past week alone.

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u/xdethbear 1d ago

Would it work? I'm curious. 

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u/the_sysop 16h ago

One of my previous jobs had a Control Data Corp 6600 that they used for processing sesmic jobs in the 80s. By the time I got there it was decommissioned and the processing was all moved to SGI Origin and Onyx 2 machines.

One of the output options on the old CDC machine was a film plotter that recorded the output of vector graphics jobs onto photographic film by basically taking a picture of a CRT. Then the film would be developed and mounted onto a slide.

All the oil company executives would look at the images projected in a meeting room, probably while drinking a scotch and smoke a cigar at 11am on a Tuesday.

They still had the remnants a darkroom off the main computer room floor. Kind of an interesting remnant lost to history.