Not a great haul, but at least anything.
I love harddrives so much that I try to rescue every single one. But few days ago I came around two HDDs that even I was hesitating to get them. About two weeks ago it was snowing so hard that I can't even remember if it was this bad before. Week after it started melting in daylight, but at night the temperature dropped well below 0°C (-15°C - again, don't remember that happening before). It was melting and freezing and so on, and on the bottom very thick ice was formed (3-5 cm). And in this mess were trapped two harddrives. When it melted enough to the point I saw them, I had to KICK them out of the ice and brought them home, just to discover that somebody got a screwdriver and pryed the circuit board off. Funnily enough, when I tried to swap the board, they came alive and even passed the seektest, but because of inccorrect alignment they couldn't read anything. So the data IS recoverable (not that I want to).
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When the snow/ice melted all the way, I returned and found a VCR. I need one because my grandmas one is waaaay past its mileage mark (maybe 4 or 5 times - super cheap Watson VCR working everyday since 2004, what got me was that it has page on radiomuseum 😁 http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/watson_video_cas … er_vr_3731.html). It is some Daewoo VCR (T220P maybe? I don't remember...), pretty cheaply made, but it has way less on odometer. It was eating tapes and not ejecting them. Quickly I found out that it just needed to clean the mode switch, heads and lubricate the pulling mechanism and now it works great.
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Yes... You see correctly. The label really says what you think it says. 😁
I don't watch this kind of... umm... filmography, but when I pulled it apart I found this tape hopelessly stuck inside. I just can imagine that horny teenager wanted to see some action, but the tape got stuck, so rather then admiring it to parents he just threw it to the dumpster. 😁
What is way a little bit scary, when I tried to play it, just for lols and giggles, there was a TV show about Multiple sclerosis...
And today I found this beast. It is Tesla Sonet Duo reel-to-reel player from early 1960s. It has steel case, weighs about 10 kilograms and has 5 tubes inside! (2 audio output, 1 eye tube and two more that I couldn't identify from first sight)
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There is no way I would plug it into outlet, it needs recapping and some love before I can. But hey, in our country this is legendary piece of equipment!
Bah, super long post again. Please tell me, is it interesting or annoying when I write those long posts?