I enjoy exploring ruins, old mines, old rail lines, and abandoned buildings.

I enjoy browsing thrift stores, junk shops, and flea markets.

So when I found an abandoned thrift store in an abandoned building in a larger complex of an abandoned junk yard I was in hillbilly heaven.

#Abandoned #Thrifting

Today they had a Sony Data Discman EBXA electronic book reader. With a disc in it! Sadly the display was toast.

#HARDOFF #Thrifting #RetroComputing #Sony #Discman

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A hand holding a Sony DATA Discman DD-20 Electronic Book Player EBXA Electronic Book. A gray plastic clamshell device, with a 330 yen price tag on it. In the back is also a disc caddy

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A clamshell device opened up to reveal a 4:3 black and white LCD where the polarizer has become delaminated. There is a rubber key QWERTY keyboard, big NO and YES keys, and a disc caddy sticking out the size.

Another thing they had was the Casio Super Picky Talk, a tamagochi-style pet game. Sadly again with a toast display. The second photo is the packaging from an online image search showing what it would have looked like if it worked. I wonder if a screen could be salvaged from a contemporary Casio graphing calculator?

#Thrifting

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A purple CASIO device with a clear plastic lid with teal script “Picky Talk” “ACCESS PET”

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A box showing a Tamagochi-style game with some pets in a room. The display has that weird tri-tone LCD color display that some Casio graphing calculators had.

My HARD OFF Megathread!

HARD OFF is my favorite store ever. It’s a Japanese chain of tech thrift stores that will buy your junk and resell it. There’s also OFF HOUSE (clothes/household items), the confusingly unrelated BOOK OFF (used books, games and other media), LIQUOR OFF, etc

I’ll start off by posting some overview photos of what kind of stuff you can find there, and then start following up whenever I find something interesting

Let’s go!

#RetroComputing #RetroGaming #Thrifting #mb

This Panasonic Movie Printer NV-MP1 looks cool! Print screenshots from movies!

Also really love the look of this VHD player. Where did all the red electronics go?

Remember when your mom said watching TV that close would ruin your eyes? Well someone made a product to automatically shut the TV off if you sat too close to the TV!

I feel like these speakers were modified by the previous owner.. just a feeling…

#HARDOFF #Thrifting

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A black device with an S-video input and the text Panasonic THERMAL SUBLIMATION DYE TRANSFER PRINTER MOVIE PRINTER NV-MP1

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A red flat media device that says SHARP AUTO LOADING VIDEODISC PLAYER VP-3000 Vi VISUAL INTEGRATION /// my DISC 4モーターNEWオートローディング

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テレビは離れて見よう！ テレビ接近防に［stickers］ ¥330 テレビの上に置くだけ！ コードレス 光過敏症 視力低下 電磁波 オクダケ・レーダー UK-501 標準価格 12,800円（税別） テレビの前1m以内に近づくと 鳴って パツ！と消える！ 1.テレビの前約1m以内に近づくと告音を鳴らします。 2.告音を5秒以上無視するとテレビをします。 約1m MADE IN JAPAN

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Two Onkyo D-102AV speakers with what looks like kitchen colanders glued to the front of the speaker cones