The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.

[bhamv3]

Your speakers would periodically send out static bursts like a frantic clerk was a telegraphing Morse Code on them

That was when someone was about to get a phone call, right?

 

[GasBandit]

That was when someone was about to get a phone call, right?

 

[Frank]

Duckitaduckitadaaaaaaaaaaaduckitaduckduckduckita

 

[PatrThom]

Buddy, we had an IPX/SPX 10 base 2 network. I'm still finding misplaced terminators TO THIS DAY.

I, too, remember Thicknet.
My retro rig even has a BNC/AUI/RJ45 combo card.

--Patrick

 

[Ravenpoe]

I think this sound just activated some Manchurian candidate shit in me.

 

[bhamv3]

There's a guy visiting our office today who looks amazingly like Bryan Cranston. Specifically, he looks like Bryan Cranston playing Walter White at the end of Breaking Bad, with the beard, unkempt hair, and glasses. I had to suppress the urge to stare at him.