Not everyone has seen it since the 1980s! Tell me about those classic old digital items.

It's not that I don't understand The world is changing rapidly. When Cui Jian first wrote this song, I think he never imagined that the world would change so fast in 30 years.

The author is a post-80s generation who especially likes digital products and games. I am particularly happy to live in this era full of changes and vitality. It has been more than 30 years since I first came into contact with FC as a child. I have seen many technological products that changed my life at that time, but it is hard to trace them back now.

unimax charger

The universal charger should not be seen by many people, especially after 90 s and 00 s, which was mainly used to charge the battery of mobile phones at that time. At that time, the mobile phone battery could be removed, and the standard was basically two batteries. Although there is a special charger that can be plugged into the mobile phone to charge the battery, many people will choose to buy an extra universal charger to charge another battery in case the mobile phone suddenly runs out of power but can't find a replaceable battery.

Where is this thing "omnipotent"? See those two hands that can adjust the angle? When charging, just take out the mobile phone battery, clamp it with the bracket of the universal charger, then adjust the two "hands" to correspond to the positive and negative poles of the mobile phone battery, and then insert the charger into the patch panel. What's it like at work? Please see the picture below:

A witty friend found that the charging compartment of his Bluetooth headset was broken, and found a universal charger to clamp the headset with the mentality of a dead horse. The result was really charged [stunned]. However, there are still some risks in doing so. At least ensure that the input current and voltage of the charger meet the input requirements of the charged equipment, and it is not recommended to try [rustic laughter] easily.

BP machine (pager)

I bet today's young people will talk about "when there is no mobile phone, is there any good way for people to find him quickly?" The main function of pager is to let others find you at any time. Of course, some people will send themselves a pager to let others know that they don't have a pager on their waist, then wait for their pager to ring, and finally pretend to say, "Oh, why do you keep paging me?" So at least in the matter of "installing X", people before and now are happy to do it.

Such a trivial matter, in addition to narrowing the distance between people, actually played a role in many places. Friends who like watching American TV dramas may find that in many occasions, such as police stations, hospitals, scientific research units and other places, the staff inside will wear a BP machine, and many urgent things are sent through the BP machine. This thing was first invented in Japan, and it was not until 20 19 that Tokyo Telecom stopped the operation of the BP machine. In China, this little thing stopped operating in 2007.

Portable telephone

Finally, talk about the ancestors of mobile phones. In fact, I don't know why the mobile phone is called "big brother" until now. Some people say it has something to do with gangster movies in Hong Kong, while others say it has something to do with the name of gangster, but this is not very important. The important thing is that if you saw someone holding this thing in the 1990s, that person must be super rich.

In that era (from the late 1980s to the 1990s), the public price of mobile phones was around 20,000 yuan, but it generally took 25,000 yuan to buy them. The black market price is as high as 50 thousand yuan. Whenever there are so few households with 10 thousand yuan, you think it is basically a legend. Ten thousand dollars for this thing can actually feed two and a half families. Just think about how expensive this thing is and how many people can use it. In fact, the function of mobile phone is very limited, that is, it is really a mobile phone. It can do nothing but answer the phone, and the call quality is not clear and stable enough, so it often shouts. One of its big batteries can only last about 30 minutes after charging. However, this will not stop people from pursuing this big brick weighing a pound at that time. Even if you can't afford it, as long as you see someone using a mobile phone, this cow can blow a friend at the dinner table for a month.

1973, the mobile phone was invented, and people's lives began to change from that time. Perhaps without the invention of mobile phones, Motorola and Nokia would not have occupied the vast majority of the mobile phone market from the end of last century to the beginning of this century, and Jobs would not have released a full touch-screen mobile phone that changed people's lives again in 2007. Many times life is like this, and a person will promote his progress under an accidental opportunity.

The wheel of the times always rolls forward. At present, the development of mobile phones has entered a bottleneck period. When will the next change start? Let's just wait quietly. It will come.

Floppy disk/floppy drive

When I was at work before, a colleague asked a question: "Do you know why the hard drive letter of a computer starts with drive C? Why not start with disk A? "

Well (expressing hesitation, etc.) ... this is really a good question. In order to explain this question, we must talk about the following things:

If you touch the computer earlier, you will never be unfamiliar with floppy disks. In fact, floppy disks are not only 3.5 inches, but also 5.25 inches earlier. Of course, the device used to read them-floppy drive, also has two specifications. Therefore, at present, all operating systems use disk C as the beginning of hard disk partition, because from the beginning, the disk symbol really starts from A and is distributed from floppy disk. Although many people may not even have seen a floppy disk/floppy drive now, this habit has continued. The partition of hard disk from disk C is also a kind of respect for floppy disk (in fact, for compatibility reasons, because there are indeed many computers connected with floppy disks now).

In terms of storage capacity, a 3.5-inch floppy disk can store 1.44MB, while a 5.25-inch floppy disk has a smaller storage space, only about 1.2M, because it was invented earlier than a 3.5-inch floppy disk.

The capacity of 1.44M is incredible now, but there are still many people using floppy disks. Although it is troublesome to ensure the safety of data stored on floppy disks because of the production process, floppy disks still have some room for use: some old equipment in scientific research units still use floppy disks as storage media, and some "digital veterans" also buy floppy disks regularly. But in any case, it is only a matter of time before it dies.

Television with game function

This thing should be a lot of knowledge blind spots after 90, 00 or even 80, because it is really "short-lived".

As an article about nostalgia, it is impossible to lose the "game". On this topic, what I want to say today is that these TVs with built-in game functions are rare in the market and it is difficult to see them with your own eyes. To talk about this topic, we have to mention the brand Sharp. Since 1970s, Sharp and Nintendo have maintained a very deep cooperative relationship. For example, the screen of the 3DS handheld is provided by Sharp. So it's not so strange that Sharp and Nintendo cooperated to launch some "strange" products. For example, C 1 in the above picture is a TV with built-in FC function.

What are the benefits of the built-in FC function? I feel that the biggest advantage is that the problems of signal attenuation and interference basically do not exist. Because it is a direct internal line to output the game video, the signal is definitely superior to the external line in theory. However, due to the high price (it will be much cheaper to buy a game console and TV separately than to buy this thing separately), in fact, this special TV set was discontinued the year after its release.

There are many similar products, such as Sharp SF 1 with built-in SFC function, Philips 2 1TCDI30 TV with built-in CD-I and so on.

VCD with game function

Share another thing related to the game.

In the memory of children born in 1980s, there may be no videotape, but VCD will never be absent. Everyone must be familiar with "super error correction", "karaoke" and "multi-disc", but if you combine VCD with "playing games", some friends may not know what is going on.

The person who can come up with the idea of combining games with VCD is definitely a genius. At that time, the market share of VCD was quite high, so the relative competition was fierce. It is absolutely good to actively break the homogeneity of products, so at that time, some products on the market provided the function of playing games, such as the new Tian Li game VCD mentioned here. This product can run Sega MD games (it is said to be licensed), but it seems that it cannot be archived because of the machine design. ...

Eggs: Motorola V3

As mentioned earlier, the homogenization of the mobile phone market is very serious now. Because they are all full-screen mobile phones, they basically design a screen as large as possible on the front, and then a set of cameras on the back, plus a border design. To tell the truth, I still feel bored after reading it for a long time.

When Motorola V3 went public, I was still in college. At that time, it happened that the American TV series Prison Break was very popular. One day, when I was chasing this drama, I found that the agents Mahone and Susan were using Motorola's mobile phones. I am so interested in this mobile phone that I even put it on the list of "the first thing to buy after work". At that time, this mobile phone was so thin that it was incredible. This mobile phone is also known to the author. After Nokia Butterfly Machine became popular all over the world, another mobile phone product has been recognized by consumers all over the world.

Because this mobile phone was really successful at the beginning, Motorola also saw this opportunity today when the flexible screen technology gradually matured, and timely launched a replica version of the V3 mobile phone: Razr.

From the appearance, this mobile phone is a product that I think combines feelings and design perfectly. It is the mobile phone I want to buy most in the past ten years, but in fact ... well, that's another story. If I have time, I will definitely write another article to share.

After writing this article, the author feels like a lifetime ago. I am not lamenting the rapid development of science and technology, but finding myself suddenly becoming an uncle. As a post-80s generation, it is increasingly difficult to keep up with the current Internet trend. Some time ago, I made great efforts to understand the meaning of the four letters YYDS, but in fact, there were many such network terms in the author's young Web 1.0 Web2.0 era, and they will certainly continue to exist in the future.

These scientific and technological products that are gradually disappearing or have disappeared may seem a bit insignificant from the present point of view, but in fact everything has its own development law. Without these products, today's technology products may have reached another completely different technology tree.