Most of them just bounce back into space, like the one that became the moon

I think maybe I could go for some deep fried cheesecake

This cat is using a computer.

Your argument is invalid.

Stairway to Heaven?

Except when companies do it in a gay way, then it’s against the constitution

1. Job security
2. its not COBOL

My god it’s full of bees!

I spent way too long wondering what it could possibly mean to deduct your mortgage from your rent.

A white with basalt? How gauche.

Pick it up after he throws it and throw it back!

Xyzzy

Or maybe metric should measure in Hartleys

Epic rap battles of capitalism

I’m so glad all those emails don’t go to waste

Leaded or unleaded

Never had the pleasure myself but my dad worked for a manufacturer of punch card machines and told me about a service call where he got the contractually minimum 4 hours pay for walking in, dumping out the bucket and leaving. They had been specifically asked whether the “chip bin full” light was on. It was.

Punch card chaff?

At a specifically technical level, that adapter box contained a RF oscillator and a “frequency mixer” - the mixer likely being made of a transistor or 2 being switched on and off by the RF oscillator at a very high speed, with the effect of frequency-shifting the signal from the console. It’s similar to the way a camera’s shutter speed shifts the frequency of things like car wheels, helicopter blades, old tv’s and some LED dimmers to make the frequencies of those things visible to the human eye. Radio systems are almost all built on that concept.

it’s possible that channel 4 just plain didn’t work very well in that design but in my area I’m pretty sure it was just interference. I remember that channel 4 looked empty at first glance but if you sat and watched the snow, it would occasionally pick up some very faint stuff - there was likely enough RF signal there to interfere but not enough for the TV to consistently lock on.

It’s because the console was encoding the video in the same NTSC format that tv stations transmitted over the airwaves at the time, and the little adapter box it came with would connect between the tv and the antenna and the console, and merge the console’s signal with the antenna’s signal, so the TV would detect it as if the antenna had picked it up.

It had a channel selector to let you pick which of two frequencies to center the console’s signal at, in case one or the other was in use by a real tv station. Where I and apparently the previous poster lived, “channel 3” was unused but “channel 4” had a tv station so only channel 3 worked for video games

Booting from a single floppy disk in A: and using the other floppy drive (B: of course) to store programs and files because there was no hard drive. And the floppy disks only stored something like 300 KB.