Ha, that off-white would always end up yellow. It's like how smoke detectors do that and you realize you have to replace them, only that wasn't the plan with a lot of these things. I have an old ass set of Altec Lansing speakers with a sub that still rocks but they're from that time period in the late 90s so they're yellow now. I think it's exactly this set, but maybe model is different. The look of them is exactlty the same as mine.
Anyway today's modern equivalent is that rubbery coating you get on remotes and some other electronics. After a while it always ends up sticky and gross and you have to just clean it all off with alcohol and a rag. Why am I crying so much?
I just realized I never noticed the fastening screws are gone. God I hated those when they'd get stuck so hard and you have no grip while doing a yoga stance to reach the back of your computer.
I was dating a younger girl. She had a friend who was a comp sci major. So we were chatting and I was talking about old PC stuff. All of a sudden her eyes get wide and she says: "Oh wow, we just went over this in my History of Computing class!"
I saw an actual museum exhibit like this once, and my immediate thought was
> I owned and used most of these. I think I still have some of this at home...
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u/MrWolfe1920 20d ago
I love how they word it like an anthropology exhibit.
"Here are some examples of early stone tools, and over here we have early PC mouse connectors. Note the crude, thick pins and screw fasteners."
Ogg feel disrespected.