How are these supposed to work?

It's a laser with back up irons. You can see them on top of the laser unit.

>>31973796
There's no scope? It's literally just a laser? Holy shit.

>>31973822
its old as fuck, dude

>>31973822
This was way back when lasers were just getting small and cheap enough to justify things like this.

The benefits of having a bright red dot at your point of aim was good enough to justify the large size and lack of irons.

Also, fun laser quiz: LASER is actually an acronym. Can you tell me (without looking it up, cheater) what it stands for?

>>31974082
I've hear that about LASER before, still don't know what the words in the acronym are.

>>31974131
Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. What's my prise?

>>31974082
Not the guy you were talking to but let's see if I can figure it out.

Light amplification strengthening energy ... I don't got anything for R

>>31974157
>>31974152

Well at least I got the first two correct

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>>31974152
This image I found of some guy who rebuilt the fake scopes from the Terminator 2 future war sequences.

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Posting moar.

>>31974082
light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation

>>31974082
>>31974131
Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation

t. Physics a level past student

>>31973786
>How do you aim if you're giving up your sights?
with the laser?

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>>31973786
Lasers were just Hugh Mungus back in the 80's, wasn't really all that much you could do to make them much smaller.

Pic related is some experimental laser sights from the 1960's, they're gargantuan.

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>>31974749
And for comparison, this here is probably the most efficient laser sight package of the 1980's.

Instead of making the sighting unit itself even bulkier, the grip of this .357 Magnum Colt Trooper Mk.III was shortened, and a battery pack was fitted inside a grip-extension.

The laser itself has backup irons on top, and the hammer is widened to allow you to cock it from the sides (since your thumb won't fit under the laser).

>>31974184
>>31974152
How about MASER

>>31974756
we went from lasers weighing almost 20 plus pounds and hundreds of dollars to weighing a couple grams and sold for cents in cash register bargain buckets

>>31974768
A maser (/ˈmeJzər/, an acronym for "microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation") is a device that produces coherent electromagnetic waves through amplification by stimulated emission.

>>31974756
Fuggggg, that's xbox hueg.

>>31974769
Yeah.

Technology started making some crazy fucking leaps in the 20th century. The transistor alone changed electronics for the entire world, immediately a radio could be made which could be held with one hand, unheard of before.

>>31974756
>Hey, just what you see, pal.

>>31973786
It interfaces with special URATRONIC guided amunition.

>>31974804
my favorite line about the march of tech progress is that the entire apollo lander computer is now outpaced processor wise by a basic Casio wrist watch

>>31973786
Still less top heavy than a Hipoint.

>>31974832
Yeah, the exponential growth of electronics has been insane.

I'm posting from a phone which simply couldn't be made 10 years ago.
Or look at home PC development in the 90s, a brand new computer could be obsolete in just a few months.

>>31974846
the very first thumb drive i owned was 32 mb

>>31974769
lasers today are LED driven rather than chemical driven.

the reasons those old lasers are so big was they were a neon or argon tube and the battery had to have enough juice to power that to create the light.

now you just have super effecient LEDs

>>31974851
I remember when I thought an 8gb thumbdrive was revolutionary.

>>31974903
I remember having an Iomega Zipdrive.

>>31974864

True enough.

I remember the first ones I actually bought made it a point to say they were diode lasers in the product name.

>>31973786
damn, that is cyberpunk as fuck. Too bad all it really is is an enormous laser sight.

>>31973786
I own one.

Its a 1980s laser tube, filled with neon helium, not a modern solid state diode.

It has sights on top similiar to what a 1911 GI model has, but in plastic.

The laser is good for a pistol at short ranges. You have windage knobs on the side the mechanically adjust the knob, which works well.

>>31974832
Is that true? I fucking love the line, but I don't really want to go repeating if it's it's not actually true

>>31976084
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer

Fifty five watts to power a sixteen-bit processor with four kilobyte-equivalents of RAM and 73 kilobyte-equivalents of ROM. Data density of that information was about one cubic foot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_rope_memory

Deep fuckin' wizardry, man. Deep.

>>31976692
>Core rope memory

Holy fuck.

>>31975447
How heavy is it? How's it to use?

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>>31973786
>not realizing that this was a gen 1 laser sight
>Not realizing that it was huge because in the 80's the technology of commercially viable small scale lasers was in it's infancy
>not realizing that this was more or less a proof of concept rather than an actual viable sight
>not realizing that the OP is a dumbass

Instead of answering that dumbshit question I will instead describe how the image was shot

>smoke filled room from fog machine
>Bullet hanging from ceiling with thin fishing line / wire
>small light in gun barrel
>line everything up
>take the picture
>add blurry red line in post production via chemicals and pink sulofane strip
Done!... 80's style!!

>>31974082
Lieutenant A Swifts Electric Rifle

>>31973786
Gangster grip it, homie.

>>31974082
Light amplification silmultaneous emission radiation.

Laser light is also in phase and coherent.

Physics Major.

>>31978964
>>not realizing that this was more or less a proof of concept rather than an actual viable sight
It was still a commercial product though.

>>31974851
>>31974903
Ya'll are young. I remember when you would go to the store, buy a box of floppy disks and hope that at least one actually worked. Oh, and you could only fit a handful of files on it.

>>31980547
I remember spending three grand on a brand new 386 with a whopping TWENTY MEGABITE HARD DRIVE. State of the art box, mother fucker.

>>31974082

Literally Actual Science Energy Ray

>>31980614
>a brand new 386 with a whopping TWENTY MEGABITE HARD DRIVE
Wow, Doom would run choppy on a thing like that and eat up half the hard drive.

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>>31979930
So was the Borchardt C-93, Just like these sights they were a starting point for things to come.

They were released yes, but were used as a doorway for the company to get into a new market for which the new capital from sales would help the company do R&D which over time makes for a smaller more efficient and reliable product

>>31979678
>physics major
nigga, you learn that in intro EM

>>31974082
Light-Abetted Somatic Elimination Ray

>Laser softens up the target
>Bullets finish the job

>>31980547
Did it blow your mind when they came out with CD burners? It did for me.
>mix tapes are so fucking easy now

>>31980614
Sooooo, what was it like hunting dinosaurs?

>>31974169
dude, I want that for my AR

>>31982962
CDs in general, especially for games.

Suddenly distribution media's capacity had multiplied by a hundred, it was so much space that people didn't know what to do with it.

More levels, content, voice acting and recorded music were all logical steps, but people still had trouble filling a CD out, that's where Full Motion Video came in, but it went further, entire games were made with full motion videos, often spanning multiple CDs at some points.

Most of them were hot garbage, but the point is, we suddenly had SUCH a capable resource that we forced ourselves to invent an entirely new kind of game to justify it's use. It's as much a symbol of raw technological power as it'a a symbol of excess and decadence.

>>31974749
Oh man the American 180.
Makes my loins frothy everytime I see it.
Shame actually getting an uncucked one in the US is pretty much impossible.