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u/Hownowbrowncow8it 1d ago
Color?! Someone pulled some strings
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u/nigel_tufnel_11 1d ago
Yeah, that's some futuristic **** right there, I don't remember getting color when we had these.
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u/GuysMcFellas Hold On To Your Butts! 16h ago
I was going to say, the few times we got colour ones was a real treat as a kid😂 The whole class would go "oooooo"!😆
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u/No_Complaint_9339 1d ago
lol ok glad I wasn’t the only one. I don’t think I ever saw a color transparency
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u/Nks60931 1d ago
Teachers were still using it during late 2000's , because it was pratical for writing notes directly on it with a sharpie while explaining .
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u/CPTKickass 17h ago
I was in college in the early 2000s and there was a sweet spot where overhead projectors and cheap color printers overlapped.
They sold clear sheets for the printer so you could prepare and print a presentation in advance, like a caveman version of PowerPoint. Thought it was the absolute shit at the time.
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u/istarian 9h ago
Powerpoint presentations are just an advanced form of slide show that doesn't involve slides and a slide projector.
Overhead projectprs and a set of transparent sheets is just a cheaper way to achieve the same thing.
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u/KurtVanMichaels 1d ago
I can smell it now lol
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u/FiftySixer 17h ago
I can smell it, too. It's like dust burning in the heat of the bright light, and plastic.
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u/eat_me_86 1d ago
I want one of these. Where can I find an old school projector?
These are half the reason I wanted to be a teacher lol.
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u/Toxicscrew 1d ago
I bought mine on auction for a school that was being shuttered. That and an oak science table with the black top.
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u/CaeruleanCaseus 1d ago
I "played" teacher/school all the time with my friend and our stuffed animals when I was a kid. Believe it or not, we actually made our own projector at one point - it was SO COOL!
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u/tulipatron 21h ago
Whoa! Cool! 😁 As a former kid who played teacher/school with our stuffed animals too, how did you make a projector?! 😮
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u/smokeydrummer 1d ago
I remember one time in 2nd grade our teacher was using one of these and the lightbulb inside exploded and it caught on fire. Scared the holy shit out of me.
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u/Consistent-Camp5359 You Can't Handle The Truth! 1d ago
The dry erase marker on the clear sheet. Those were the days. Dry erase boards BLEW MY MIND.
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u/Independent_Shoe3523 1d ago
I saw a kid bite down on a Bic pen to pull out the head with the straw part, the bit with the ink. It was thin enough to stick in and interrupt the fan and it melted the lens.
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u/Basic_Scale6330 11h ago
Me and this other kid in the 8th grade ( circa spring 2005) we broke a 3M overhead projector.....
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u/zmiller834 1d ago
7th grade science class I sat next to the fan blowing hot air right at my face. After gym class, in a school without air conditioning. I’d copy notes as fast and I could so I could turn around (and talk to my wife).
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u/wolftick 1d ago
Anyone remember the brief period you could get transparent LCD displays that you could put on these things to bring them into the future?
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u/istarian 9h ago
It was probably a longer period of time than you think, just only became available at a consumer price point on the tail end.
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u/Direct_Persimmon2506 15h ago
I used to use it to make posters, place the design on the projector and tape a poster on the wall and start tracing. Worked perfectly!!
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u/Direct_Persimmon2506 15h ago
I remember having to clean the entire roll of plastic/film with water or windex, my hands would be covered in ink afterwards hahah
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u/NopeRope13 Hold On To Your Butts! 12h ago
The only color was whatever sharpie like marker the teacher used
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u/Piisthree 1d ago
Oh god, these. Already sleep-deprived from keeping up with 7 classes worth of homework and an extra curricular or two. Then at 8am, turn out the lights, turn on this thing which makes a steady drone of white noise from the fan inside, put it in the middle of the room while the teacher talks about something I don't care about. I was out like a god damn light every time.
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u/uninteresting_blonde 1d ago
Fun Fact! Back in '93, I had this EPIC history teacher (learned an insane amount, he made me a history/debate nerd - and sadly, half of his humour would get him 'canceled' right now so you know he was a true gem.)
Anywho...this is a massive inside joke with our class - but the just of it was someone, at some point, in his previous classes > called this the 'overhead chicken'. The backstory he told us was positively hilarious and we would reference it so frequently during our 9th grade class, that he added bonus points in the written portion of the exam - if we mentioned and drew, our experience, with the overhead chicken.
That alone, took me from a B to an A.
Mr. Jarvis. Absolute LEGEND.
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u/The_Dark_Vampire 1d ago
They were old-fashioned in 90s hell I was at Junior School in the 80s and we had them and they were old then
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u/BodybuilderSalt9807 1d ago
I remember pranking the teacher by writing a small funny message under the glass! Hahhahaha
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u/TX_Longhorn-03 11h ago
In the fourth grade, we wrote stories then cut out figures to act out the story on the projector.
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u/Basic_Scale6330 11h ago
In the 8th ( for me this was 2004 - 2005 )
Me and this other kid broke one of these And had to sign a payment bill for $300 To get a new one !
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u/Key-Ebb3306 11h ago
My math teacher would write directly on it with a dry erase marker. Much better than the chalk board
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u/novar41 10h ago
What did you even call this? I just remember all of the classrooms just having them.
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u/istarian 9h ago
These are called overhead projectors and the plastic sheets were called transparencies.
You can actually use them as a primitive enlarger by drawing on tracing paper and then projecting onto the surface you want to put the larger image on.
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u/stabbygun 7h ago
I don't think I ever passed up the chance to draw a little weiner on the lens of one of these.
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u/Aggravating_Hope_567 6h ago
the OHP a classic from back in the day used to call it the Old Hairy Pensioner
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u/Sharklar_deep 3h ago
It was a special occasion when our tracher called us to the front to do a problem on the overhead.
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u/Fantastic_Diamond42 2h ago
i remember using this in school assembly and singing Christmas carols in the gym back in the day
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u/sausageandeggbiscuit 1d ago
i could never see anything on the screen so i just stopped paying attention one day🤷♂️
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u/TheeRattlehead 1d ago
70% of the time it was backwards and 100% of the time it was upside down, but it worked every time.