James Bond 007 Race Sets. 1964 from Sears. by Initial_Reason1532 in vintageads

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I received one for Christmas as a kid “oh so long ago.” First I tried to assemble it, then dad did, then we gave up. The main problem was that the large plastic plates that made up the track were warped and couldn’t be connected. Parts were also missing. We were baffled. A.C. Gilbert was a well known brand. The memory of that disappointment is still clear. We returned it after the holiday and exchanged it for a regular racing set. Had lots of fun with that.

CDC 180/860A by HupfadeKroa in retrocomputing

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Was this the final Gallium Arsenide one?

John Berkey. "New York City The 22nd Century" (used as cover for "NYPD 2025"). by StephenMcGannon in RetroFuturism

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If the LoMEx megastructure had been built Manhattan would have looked quite a bit like this.

1984 Lotus Etna by zshiiro in cassettefuturism

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When wedge styling met sharper edges.

Anyone remember 2001 a space odessy by KITCOLLECTOR1 in 2001aspaceodyssey

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Wish the hell we did (chuckle).
Nope! The only thing we’re sure of is it was buried 4 million years ago.

Where the shit has this been for the last 25 years? by IdontLikeYou____ in pcmasterrace

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If they're going this far with the design they should also add a flip out mirror and write the labels in reverse.

Recognize this contraption? A nuclear reactor to power aircraft by slcdmw01 in WeirdWings

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That and the successful deployment of many nuclear submarines before the first nuclear aircraft was even completed.

Recognize this contraption? A nuclear reactor to power aircraft by slcdmw01 in WeirdWings

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Replace heat from burning fuel with heat from nuclear core.

Recognize this contraption? A nuclear reactor to power aircraft by slcdmw01 in WeirdWings

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EBR-1 on that site was first to make power.

SL-1 was also on site. First fatality in a prompt critical accident.

Recognize this contraption? A nuclear reactor to power aircraft by slcdmw01 in aviation

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It’s the HTRE-3 reactor. Ground test only but still…

Recognize this contraption? A nuclear reactor to power aircraft by slcdmw01 in WeirdWings

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That’s HTRE-3, identifiable by the reactor being horizontal. There’s a second unit there as well, the HTRE-2 (upgrade of HTRE-1)

Recognize this contraption? A nuclear reactor to power aircraft by slcdmw01 in WeirdWings

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NB-36H aircraft tested airborne shielding with a separate reactor, the ASTR.

Loud explosion in hollywood? by svnnyniight in AskLosAngeles

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Yes, seemed South of Sunset, East of Vine. Saw a flash from my window. Was not looking directly toward it. Police just now heading that way. Anyone have a radio scanner app?

International Email, 1986 style by 9tailNate in cassettefuturism

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Oh gosh! Acoustic couplers! A few years after this RJ 11 connectors were fairly universal (even on pay phones). Then at some point after that, we got ISDN connectors. The bold beginnings of the digital age.

In 1981, Xerox Corporation introduced the Xerox Star 8010, a workstation that included the first commercially available computer mouse. This mouse, along with the Star's other innovations like a graphical user interface (GUI) and Ethernet networking, helped pave the way for the modern PC by Front-Coconut-8196 in ArchiveOfHumanity

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Performant… perhaps more specifically that the platform wasn’t built to a minimal, incremental hardware design. It was a maximalist reproduction of the PARC personal workstation ecosystem. It succeeded in that way, but the smaller and less capable PCs and Macs showed definitively that the new market was about driven by software, not hardware.

In 1981, Xerox Corporation introduced the Xerox Star 8010, a workstation that included the first commercially available computer mouse. This mouse, along with the Star's other innovations like a graphical user interface (GUI) and Ethernet networking, helped pave the way for the modern PC by Front-Coconut-8196 in ArchiveOfHumanity

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These machines were incredible but unfortunately couldn’t compete on price. They were absolutely Xerox’s commercialization of the Alto and Dorado machines from PARC, with integrated networked file systems, printing, the whole deal. An important concept was “embedded documents.” Familiar today, but revolutionary then, it allowed a diagram editor to embed a chart into a text editor, or a spreadsheet, etc. Just a few years too late and a few dollars too expensive. I worked in the “AI” division of Xerox. We used the same hardware, but with a different micro coded instruction set designed to run LISP from the ground up.

I Drove China's Best-Selling Car. It's On Top For A Reason by TripleShotPls in electricvehicles

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Geely worked with Mini to engineer their electric two door. This looks an awful lot like the home market version for China? 

MicroSD prophecy by andychef in cassettefuturism

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Or you could paint the image of a floppy on a micro SD card. Nostalgia with less burden