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   Paul Ford (ftrain@tilde.zone)'s status on Friday, 02-Dec-2022 04:48:09 JST Paul Ford

   Tonight I've asked Stable Diffusion to generate 250 different pages from the 1987 Radio Shack catalog.

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     Dr. Matt Lee ?:verified: (mattl@social.mat.tl)'s status on Friday, 02-Dec-2022 04:53:19 JST Dr. Matt Lee ?:verified:

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     @ftrain We had a cheaper Amstrad one at home. It wasn't as fancy but it detected the ghost of an Elizabethan merchant who had taken up residence in our attic. A year later we wound up getting a cordless phone.

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     Paul Ford (ftrain@tilde.zone)'s status on Friday, 02-Dec-2022 04:53:20 JST Paul Ford

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     Kind of an obscure one--there was a point in the 80s where lots of people were buying ovoid spotters and hooking them up to antennae in order to find either intelligent life or to reveal ghosts or energy sources. So you had to buy the whole stack, the ovoid spotter, the phantom inverter, and the signal exporter, and it could easily run thousands. Fun though!

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     Paul Ford (ftrain@tilde.zone)'s status on Friday, 02-Dec-2022 04:53:21 JST Paul Ford

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     The Marbok Pain Box was the first really accessible consumer pain box that anyone could use to determine if they were animal or human.

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     Paul Ford (ftrain@tilde.zone)'s status on Friday, 02-Dec-2022 04:53:22 JST Paul Ford

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     Oh yeah the Comamucer Conman's Cook. You'd just plug it into your ears and you could hear every blade of grass shrieking as it was cut.

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     Paul Ford (ftrain@tilde.zone)'s status on Friday, 02-Dec-2022 04:53:23 JST Paul Ford

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     God I wanted all of these. I still do.

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     Paul Ford (ftrain@tilde.zone)'s status on Friday, 02-Dec-2022 04:53:25 JST Paul Ford

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     I still remember the day Dad brought this bad boy home. Boy would it throb menacingly.