Whenever I come across old dial phones in flea markets I go into nostalgic meltdown. I'm showing my age but anything that reminds us of our childhoods are fond moments. I miss when Apple computers were called Macintosh and were genuine masterpieces of hardware and design. Turning on the computers came with a very pleasant chime, to let you know that you were powering up something special.

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Apes hold strong!

Hey the copper inside those bad boys will be worth a fortune in 50 years

What are you doing, step printer? That's not where cartridge go!

My brother in Christ, please tell me what hardware you used and method. I have around 20K print photos that need digitizing and short of paying out of the wazoo for a professional service to do it, I'm at a total loss

Aaahahaha thats me. One for A/V (with separated enclosures), one for data transfer, one for network, and one for power. You have to have a system or you're doomed.

The number of times I've needed a HDMI extender = the number of times I've been blown by a unicorn

The number of HDMI extenders in my box > the number of times I've been blown by a unicorn

Just tell them to pull out those other cables instead.

Shut your filthy mouth! I need all of them ALL OF THEMMM

To my defense I can fully charge all of the broken cameras I have hoarded since the 90s!

Many past arguments were won and vindicated that day

"Democracy is in danger!"

"But sir! Where would we possibly get our hands on 12 VGA-to-DVI connectors?!"

I love old AC adapters. Whenever I'm tossing something out, I keep the adapter. I have a box full of them.

A couple of years ago, I got into home music recording, and started buying used gear at auctions. If they come with the box, manual and accessories, they can be expensive, but I don't need the box, and you can find any manual online, so all I need is the adapter. Without the adapter, the thing sells for real cheap, and I almost always have an old adapter that works.

Nothing is more satisfying than getting a piece of used gear in the mail, and digging through the box for the right adaptor, plugging it in, and seeing it come to life.

Bahahaha I actually used my extender… extensively! I got it to enlongify my VR Kit’s cables so I could have drunk ass friends over and play VR games without worrying about them destroying the kit or the computer. VR has been shelved for a while but I just finished my VR machine so I’m busting that thick ass HDMI extender right back out!

Also I think unicorns pass the Harkness test, so I’m down. I’ll have to get another extender if that happens, though.

I had this box that carried/moved from 1996 - 2016 (when boxes weren’t cheaply made) that had every cable from scsi, power, ps, usb and more. I can count on one hand the 3 times I needed something from it. I moved with it 5x between 2 states and apartments and a house, and when I moved it the last time from my basement office to my upstairs office, I decided to turn those cables into money (copper). I never looked back because I found myself being lazy and searching Amazon for a 3$ cable.

I shall live with this tech nerd shame, but honestly I sold everything to move to Spain, so whatever. Heh.

I have an Epson scanner, though I'd have to check the exact model. The one I have has the light so I can scan negatives or prints, but if you're only doing prints you wouldn't need that feature.

I used Vuescan to do it. Paid software, but none of the open source options were as smooth for high volume scanning (this was some years ago, so that might have changed). Vuescan did a pretty good job of adjusting colors and all automatically after the scan. It was worth the money for the time savings alone.

Basically just sit there, load the print, hit scan, wait, remove the print, repeat. You'll learn the sound of the scanner when it's returning to the top of the glass, at which point the print is safe to remove even if the software is still processing. That saves a little time.

It's tedious, no question. Scanning negatives is better because you can get up to six in one shot. Get a second negative holder and you can have one scanning while you're setting up the other one. It took me months and months.

Also consider culling the pictures you scan. Did I need to scan all of those rolls of the bridge construction? Nah.

Edit - your comment has me thinking, I need work in winter time. Maybe this could be a side job...

I have old game consoles. One cable for the USB weird pile was the odd Y cable for data and charging for a PSP

I said data cable. Something so obscure you mistook it for the charging cable.

Holy shit. You crazy motherfucker. You actually put the photos on the frame one by one? And scanned them one by one?

I gotta say...

You may be insane, but you get the job done, as opposed to me, who am still trying to figure out the best way to do it.

That's why we are still trying to understand how they built the pyramids, while the pyramid builders simply did it.

TIL Harkness Test, and what the ACTUAL FUCK

We seriously need to bring a wsb like community on here because I miss it

Yeah. I don't remember how many of the pictures I scanned were prints, but it was quite a few, maybe close to 1,000. As I said, just watched TV and did it. It's pretty mindless once you get into the groove doing it.

Like I said before, I did try to find the negatives and scan those instead when possible. Better quality and more efficient. But for quite a few, no negatives. I also had to take pictures out of frames and stuff like that. My parents wedding picture was in a cardboard frame I had to disassemble carefully...

Yup.

My brother was house sitting a few months ago and asked me why I have several draws filled with stacked HDDs.

I shrugged and blamed mum

I bought some old computer speakers from a local charity shop - £1.50 without an adaptor (or maybe it has a European adaptor - can't remember). Didn't notice until I got it home. Looked in my box ... Oh, that's exactly the right one. Done!

I did the same with my own photos during the lockdown years. Started by scanning physical photos, then got hold of any old negative scanner which supported APS. I've scanned everything except I seem to be missing one of my APS negative cartridges. I now can't get rid of my negative scanner because I know I'll find that missing cartridge as soon as I do. I also can't do much with the old PC as it's the only full size one which will take the SCSI card that I have.

Damn, aps support?! I assume you have to take the negatives out of the cartridge.

There's a seller on ebay that 3D prints negative holders for the scanner I have, so for example I could scan the 110 cartridge (not the really old roll film) negatives I have. I wonder if he makes one to do APS.

But on the other hand, the APS camera I had was cheap, point and shoot, and the prints came back with a note that they were severely overexposed, so it probably wasn't even working correctly. Not much point in spending money to save some forgettable shots of a local river.

Yeah, it's a Canon scanner (can't remember the model of the top of my head), a lot of the listings I saw for it were missing the APS part so maybe it was an optional extra?

They are mounted in the scanner cartridge and then the scanner takes care of advancing through them - or maybe it was manual. I can't remember now!

I had more rolls of APS than I thought, quite cool as you get the full frame rather than what was selected on the camera, so you see bits that were hidden for years.

Edit fs2710 - just looked in the metadata!