Obsolete 1990's technology

[serge944]

256 colors.

[Scooter]

MTV...as in "Music Television".

Oh, I am sorry, they stopped "Music Television" in the 1980's.

[TerryBPP]

The Porsche oil cooled flat 6.............hisssssssssssss, booooooooo.

[Superman]

Originally Posted by Jims5543

Distributer caps and rotors on motors. I thought they were heading out in the 80's, knowing Mazda's like I do I know they ditched this setup for coil packs in 1986.

When I began research on 911's I saw that the early 80's cars were running Dizzy's but I assumed by at least 1990 they had to have switched over to coil packs. Since my 1980 Targa had a 1990 motor and 1994 computer I was sure (and did not research again, assumed) that there would be coil packs. I was very surprised that Porsche was still using Dizzy's.

Anyone know how far into the 90's Porsche continued to use a Dizzy setup on their cars?

Soon to be extinct: The camshaft.

[t951]

pop up headlights

[JavaBrewer]

Not technology but... athletic looking girls. Is it just me, or SoCal, but do younger (H.S & College) females appear to be embracing their inner Marilyn Monroe these days?

[Z-man]

More 90's tech:

- "passive restraint seatbelts" -- the ones that were attached to the door of the car and were mechanized to move into place once the door was closed.

- The Sony Watchman (pocket sized TV)

- VR (Virtual reality) games (complete with the VR Visors)

- "Toy Story" graphics

[VaSteve]

Originally Posted by Z-man

- The adapters that plugged into the car cassette deck to allow you to listen to your CD's playing on your portable CD player

I have an old stereo that was my wife's with a cassette player...I put it in the garage. I was trying to find a way to play my ipod and XM radio in the garage and found amongst my stuff one of those cassettes. Done. 3 years later still rocking on that way.

[VaSteve]

Originally Posted by Z-man

More 90's tech:

- "passive restraint seatbelts" -- the ones that were attached to the door of the car and were mechanized to move into place once the door was closed.

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Ha ha. I saw a Testarossa with those seatbelts. Just like my 1990 Nissan!

[gt350mike]

Originally Posted by serge944

256 colors.

Don't think anyone mentioned CRT monitors.

[cab83_750]

Originally Posted by ZOANAS

answering machine

With the economy the way it is, 2 of my neighbors are unsubscribing voice mail; instead, they will reactivate the old answering machine.

Heck, at $8.00, I might do the same thing.

[jerryw]

Originally Posted by Z-man

- Dot-matrix printers


- More the the IT folks: ESCON mainframe connectivity, fiber cable with SC connectivity (vs. lc), 1GB HBA's, disk drives without RAID, 10/100 ethernet cards, token ring networks

That's alot of junk in the closet!!
-Z-man.

Still running escon (for the 3745 and CTC's) and our fibre is longwave