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Y’all! I told you I was doing serious archeological research up in here, but did you believe? Well, yeah you probably did, especially if you are of a “certain age” as Jane Austin so politely put it.

This box, y’all, this box measures 11x4”, and weighs about 7 pounds. It is a ten Megabyte external hard drive for the first gen Macintosh. (Which I also have.). On this hard drive I have adobe photoshop, illustrator 88, autocad, FrameMaker, and produced magazines both indie underground, but also internationally distributed CAD publications.

10MB y’all. 10. Megabytes. Ima need an Indiana jones hat and a whip, stat!
#oldtech #WhereDoesSheGetTheseWonderfulToys

An entertainment technology that I've never heard of before features prominently in an old movie I'm watching, it's like a telephone jukebox. A unit hangs on a wall with speaker and mouthpiece into which user speaks over wire to an operator at a distant central location where the records are kept and played back. The movie has shown the system in a diner and in a nightclub.

🎥 X Marks the Spot, 1942 dir. George Sherman

Shyver Music Phone / Multiphone
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How does one destroy 75 or so old CDs? I found a box of old backups of photos and files mostly from the early 2000's and have no idea how to destroy them safely.

Info says to break them in a towel or clamp a bunch of them together and drill through them, but was wondering others had actually tried anything better?

Appreciate advice.