#zenith technology

[hartlesshart]

Aloy: HAH HAH! Seyka: OH SHI-

[object-yaoi]

was scrolling through this lovely website and drew some old computers <3

compys' featured:

Vector 1 Zenith Easy PC Intertec Superbrain ALTOS 586 Canon Cat

[bo1908]

YOONCHAE KATSEYE : TECNA WINX CLUB

[dandyads]

Zenith, 1975

Theme Week: Cutting Edge Technology 🤖

[of-fear-and-love]

Zenith G500 TransOceanic radio, 1949, designed by Robert Davol Budlong, as it appears in Love Jones (1997)

[lovelyllamasblog]

Tecna ⚡

Fairy of Technology

Guardian Fairy of Zenith

Zenith

Birthday: June 9 (4Kids) December 16 (Cinélume)

Fairy Sign: Elf (4Kids) Triton (Cinélume)

Star Sign: Gemini (4Kids) ♊ Sagittarius (Cinélume) ♐

[starborn-scene-demon]

gonna take a picture of my phone with my phone with my phone with my psp with my 3ds and finally with my phone

[wiredwormz]

Flea Market Haul !!

pictured above (left to right) a Fisher Studio Standard Compact Disc Player AD-913A, a Denon Cassette Tape Deck DR-M10HR, a cute little purse, and a Zenith vm7000 VHS camera !!

i haven’t tested any of the items yet, ill make a follow up post once im able to tinker with them. the workshop at my house hasn’t been completed yet, so most of my work stays on my laptop. eventually ill have a chance to set all this gear up. just gotta be patient ~

12|10|2022 UPDATE: so, the zenith is missing a microphone, which has been snapped off of the front of it, and i think something is also wrong with it internally. the battery pack powers on, but i dont think the device itself functions. also, the CD player's disc drive does not open, but otherwise seems to work just fine ? the cassette tape deck works perfectly well :)

[sergioguymanproust]

Vintage radios are not only beautiful pieces of technology of days gone by,they represent a combination of styles and materials where elegance and artistic sense came together to deliver the latest advances in mass production and communication. At home we were proud to display this brand of radio in the living room, keeping it cover in a felt cloth case when not in use ,to keep the dust away.We were not allowed to play with the keys and knobs ,I was particularly intrigued by the sounds of static noise emanating when dad would go looking for a frequency tuning it until different sounds would aligned to hear a particular bandwidth that would carry music or news.Memories of those days put me in a mood for a cup of tea and scones with strawberry jam,haha.Some companies are bringing back this retro look,for folks like me that crave that look.I realize now more than ever how time flies and how much of me still longs for those days . Well,I’m grateful for those lazy midsummer days that we spent listening to music in that radio and enjoying naps. Words by Sergio GuymanProust.

Zenith 

[bo1908]

TECNA WINX CLUB

[all-encompassing-hero]

One thing I love about the Horizon franchise is how both Zero Dawn and Forbidden West make it explicitly clear that while the current threat might be the machines and rouge AI threatening Aloy and her people, the true evil behind everything is and always has been capitalism and, to an extent, the One Percent.

[Spoiler warning for both Zero Dawn and Forbidden West]

Obviously, there's Ted Faro, a man who, through a combination of overinflated ego and massive incompetence, doomed the world twice over. First, accidentally, by designing war machines capable of consuming organic matter as fuel and programmed with code so complex, it took several hundred years to crack. And then, on purpose, by deleting thousands of years of human knowledge and history in some misguided attempt to help the future generations. A man who not only built the Torment Nexus from the book "Don't build the Torment Nexus" but then deleted all records of both his construction and the story from which it came so that future generations would not be able to learn from the mistakes of those who came before them.

Now, while the Zeniths are not as heavyhanded about the themes of the evils of capitalism compared to Ted Faro, they do still uphold that narrative. Remember that the Zenith crew was composed almost entirely of the rich and famous. Rich and famous who would rather save their own skins rather than try to help humanity in its final hours. When they managed to do the impossible and achieve immortality, what did they do with it? Squandered it by becoming lazy, only using it to essentially prolong their own pleasure. Some even became greedy enough to go beyond physical immortality, and when that greed caused the destruction of their home and threatened the new life that had begun on Earth, what did the remaining Zeniths do? Turned tail and ran. Because the only thing that matters to them is self preservation.

Tilda might actually be the worst of them. Because while the others may not care that they're in the wrong, Tilda is the only one who believes she is in the right. Tilda, the woman who was arguably the closest to Elizabet, who watched her choose to stay to help develop the Zero Dawn project rather than abandon Earth, who has been grieving that loss for over a thousand years, believed that, given a second chance, Elizabet would choose to abandon Earth. Tilda, who believed that she was doing the right thing even as she was attempting to force Aloy to abandon her people the same way she wanted Elizabet to abandon Earth. Tilda, who died believing that the woman she loved died a pointless death even after seeing the new world created by Zero Dawn.

The Horizon franchise is and always has been a story about technology. How technology can do so much good in the hands of the right people, but also so much evil in the hands of the wrong people. And it keeps telling us that the "wrong people" are the rich and greedy, the ones who only look out for themselves, the ones who would leave humanity to die if it meant saving themselves.

My biggest hope for Horizon 3 is that it continues this message. That it continues to show that technology can be used for good, but only when in the hands of people who have the best interest of others at heart rather than their own.

[of-fear-and-love]

1946 Zenith model 12H094 radio, as seen in The War of the Worlds (1953)

(source 1, 2)

[modmad]

today's 'technology is in such a hell state now that I genuinely feel compelled to scream about it daily' moment was my trying to print and scan a document, with my printer/scanner (which, I must have you note, despite my pleading with the seller did not come with usb wire option available, and none of the others did).

Predictably, having been used on the day of purchase and not since, the printer did not work despite being less than 6 months old. Searching for why this could be led me down a rabbit hole that eventually resolved into how the print cartridges for this model just dry out and clog up if you don't use them every single week. you know. what a normal thing to happen. but don't worry! just soak the bottom in a shallow bath of warm water for 30 minutes dry it off and reinstall it that'll make it work

8)

you what.

Anyway, it did work. I print the test sheet, boom, what should have worked before at least worked now. And there was Much Rejoicing.

alas. alas. how shortly lived it was.

Now I naturally move on to print the document, sign it, and scan the newly signed document. The document from my pc. With this printer/scanner which is sitting on a desk directly NEXT TO my pc.

Which. will not. connect to my pc.

I plead. I bargain. I follow the wizard twice, thrice, but it is a cruel wizard, a tormenter from the nether world. "Type in the IP address!" He taunts me, cackling maniacally as I do, weeping over my staggering fingers attempting to puzzle the code out of the 1 inch touch screen, numbers and dots jazzing into nonsense in my field of vision as I loose all comprehension of what the symbols mean. The printer cannot be found. The printer does not Exist. The printer, at this moment, the sole focus of my gaze, decides it is bored and goes to sleep, therefore ending the whole attempt of communicating with it just as the 938678th loading bar had reached its zenith and I, ever the hapless Sisyphus, watch my dignity flatten into a pancake of wordless, stark-eyed bewilderment verging on hysteria as my boulder crashes back down the hill as the wizard begins to drag me back to the beginning of his never ending Labrynth, to be eaten by and become the ouroboros yet again but no! I will not enter back! I shall bite down, break my scales, and end this cycle of tyrannous misery!

anyway that's why I ended up taking a shitty photo with my phone's camera and I'm doctoring it in CSPaint to look like I scanned it with the SCANNER THAT I AM ABOUT TO THROW OUT OF A SECOND STORY WINDOW