Awesome Electronics

[GuardianElectronicDude]

Reply with some amazing electronics you have seen in you lifetime

[george graves]

Consumer stuff?  Movie stuff?  Retro?  Test gear?  Anything? 

Movies.







 

Retro stuff (80's-90's)

I think the first time I got my hand on a Sony Discman, I was blow away.  Nothing had ever felt or looked like it before.



The first ipods weren't nearly impressive for some reason. Maybe cause I knew what made them tick.  There wasn't a lot of black magic like there was with CD's.  Just some custom chips wrapped up in a idiot proof UI?  Am I the only one?

Huge mixer consoles are sex as well.



And pro SD video equipment from the 90's was always amazing.



Most impressive thing I ever got my hands on was a few days in a full sized shuttle simulator. 

[Simon]

Reply with some amazing electronics you have seen in you lifetime

I think you better rethink your posts before you annoy most of the board, but for the fact that you have no links in your posts I'd have already earmarked you as a candidate for being a spammer!

[German_EE]

I am not sure how to post pictures so:

A classic piece by Bang & Olufsen
http://www.audioscope.net/images/bang_olufsen_beogram_cdx2_excours-1.jpg

Some Cray goodness
http://www.craysupercomputers.com/images/Systems/Cray2/Cray2_019_8Processor_NERSC.jpg

The original Apple Mac
http://everystevejobsvideo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Macintosh-Hello.jpg

My first commercial ham transceiver
http://www.universal-radio.com/used/u903lrg.jpg

The finest ham radio transceiver in the world (with a choice of colors)
http://www.dl2ul.de/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/DSCN0215.jpg

Finally, the biggest computer I have ever seen
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/CCS/res/images/res45m.jpg

[george graves]

have already earmarked you as a candidate for being a spammer!

 

[Wytnucls]

[tautech]

@ German_EE
Study this thread:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/best-way-to-post-pictures-on-eevblog/

[jeremy]

I think that MRI machines are some of the most fascinating electronic machines ever. The more I understand, the more I can't believe that they even work.

[tautech]

have already earmarked you as a candidate for being a spammer!

 

Good old quick off the mark Simon again.
The guy had hardly enough time to set a pattern of posting.
Good way to welcome newbies?

[Simon]

I think 3 posts of virtually no content is enough, if you had the job of cleaning up the mess that can be made you would know exactly what i mean but you have the luxury of being able to criticize with little background understanding. We have had plenty of new comers like this that make open ended remarks in posts that get ignored because they seem senseless until links get added to a signature that latter mean we have to delete each post that started innocent, and ended up being a spam bomb because signatures are applied respectively.

[Simon]

have already earmarked you as a candidate for being a spammer!

 

Oh and thank you for selectively quoting to change the meaning of my words.

[DeathTickle]

I find this is a fun forum topic and there is no need to derail it yet.

Since my first blinky I've always loved all the crazy ways engineers have found to display things to the user. Both the old and the new techniques are amazing.
"Nixie clock". Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commons -

"Wiki dell lcd" by Rzr999 (talk) (Uploads) - (Szasz-Revai Endre, self-made). Via Wikipedia -

[Falcon69]

KITT
(aka, Knightrider)

[Alexei.Polkhanov]

Ever noticed that machines that look beautiful work very well too? It is almost magical true when beauty itself is unintentional by-product. Some philosophers argue that there is a connection like when we find people with good genetics, symmetrical facial features and generally well engineered by nature as more attractive.
I know it is probably irrational ... 

[SteigsdB]

Huge mixer consoles are sex as well.

Indeed.

I'll see your desk, and raise you a switcher:



I'll throw in the decks for free.



That's 8 channels of HD video recording with simultaneous playout per machine, btw..

[Sigmoid]

Don't call them "spammers", it's not politically correct.  I think the proper term is "growth hacker".