probnot

A Memorex branded 8" floppy diskette. The label shows the name "Memorex" changing to "Memory Excellence"

Huh, I just assumed Memorex was a fancy sounding name with no meaning.

The decline began the moment they discontinued the chromecast audio. What a perfect little product.

Filthy knobs on a 1970s Panasonic Solid State FM/AM Radio.

Clean knobs on a 1970s Panasonic Solid State FM/AM Radio.

Radio knobs being cleaned in a cheapest ultrasonic jewellery cleaner.

Decided to dip my toes into using an ultrasonic cleaner on knobs. This was just the cheapest one you can find I got for $10 at the thrift store, but it did a damn impressive job. I'm sold.

Mine looks like that on one of my accounts and "normal" on my other account.

They must be rolling it out slowly. It's horrible.

Screenshot of the YouTube channel "probnot's tech", sitting at 6969 subscribers.

I'm an adult, yes, but not a very mature one.

Interestingly enough, this doesn't even filter out the chroma info, so you can see the chroma dots on the image. I guess that would have cost too much for this budget model.

I couldn't resist this for $1, even though I already have too many projects on the go. No info online for the model (BPC2009W) or chassis (CT1928UB), but I think it's early 1970s. Screws never removed, all RCA branded tubes, and it works reasonably well. Still needs some new caps for the linearity.

A JVC RC-M90 boombox with the insides removed

Definitely needed a good cleaning. Unfortunately the paint is in rough shape, so it's not going to look much better, but at least the 30+ years of garage dirt is gone.

After fiddling with a loose solder connection somewhere in the amplifier circuit (distortion, low volume, no VU meters), it came to life and sounds amazing! Great reception too - this is with no antenna connected. Tape deck, however, is stone dead right now.

A JVC RC-M90 boombox sitting in the backseat of a car

I've wanted one of these for ages. Had to pounce when this came up locally.

Even living in Canada, I still deal with a fair amount of prescription receipts, insurance, etc. T1D is the gift that keeps on giving...

Is it Macrovision though? All the Macrovision signals I've seen wete in the vertical blanking section and would fade in and out to mess with the AGC. This was already recorded off TV onto videotape without issue.

Anyone know what this information is stored on the sides of this TV signal? It's recorded from a PayTV channel (WSBK out of Boston) on our local cable in the 90s (present from at least 1993-1996). Not visible at all with overscan on a CRT, but my capture card shows it.

I once got a claim on the melody of "God Save the King" (the UK's national anthem) because it matched someone's performance of said song.

YouTube doesn't want to upset the big music labels, and they're willing to let them bully the type of smaller creators who made the site what it is today.

VFD meters are always lovely.

Bonus points if anyone recognizes what model VCR this is.

JVC SK-404 speakers, stacked on top of each other. The woofers are covered with a black ceiling-mount PA speaker, similar to what you'd find in schools or offices.

Closeup up JVC SK-404 speakers, stacked on top of each other. The woofers are covered with a black ceiling-mount PA speaker, similar to what you'd find in schools or offices.

Great for listening to some classic rock, or getting called to the principal's office.

Do you trust your VCR repairman?

A picture of a weather radio. The display shows August 5th, 2037.

A perfectly accurate RDS time signal.

I would have never guessed Teknika was an OEM for that TV. Not in a million years.

The remote for one of those tuner boxes you showed early in the video looks identical to the one for this Viking (Eaton's dept store) branded TV that was fairly common up here in Canada.

Welp, my Google Pixel 7a experience went from annoying (countless software bugs, locked settings, lack of customization) to shit.

Battery died a few times and now it's starting to swell. Guess I need to buy a new phone sooner than planned.

This was the first and last Google phone I'll ever buy.

YouTube video by probnot's tech Funai Hi-Fi VCR from 1991 (FHL-1150)

For your perusal - almost an hour of me mucking about with a budget VHS VCR.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHBS...

Several thrift store shelves full of old printers

Printers are in season at the thrift store

My grey and white cat does the exact same thing. I guess arms make good cat pillows.

I finally figured out why the camera audio on my Pixel 7a is often so muffled. The 2 audio channels are slightly out of phase from each other and I've been converting to mono since the left channel is flaky. Setting the right channel as a mono source seems to fix this.

So many bugs with this phone

My thumb is cramping up just looking at that

I've been getting that a lot lately. It's usually within 2-3 days of the sensor expiring. I'm still on G6 though.

Those cups - great score!

An old 19" CRT television with knobs, that is sitting a few feet above the ground on castors. The TV is showing an episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus.

Dragged home a broken RCA TV from 1976 that has these factory castors on the bottom. One capacitor and one fuse later and it works! Despite the CRT being tired, I really like this TV.

RCA FA465B 19" XL100 from 1976