remember when

[renaeden]

1977? I was born then.

I remember when no one had more than one tv.

["couldbecousin"]

1977? I was born then.

I remember when no one had more than one tv.

  We had two!  Both black-and-white with fairly crummy reception, but oh well! 

[renaeden]

Oh I used to hate black and white tv. Things just don't look right. I remember when I was growing up a friend of mine had black and white tv and I refused to watch it, heh.

The first tv I remember our family having was a big coloured one which you had to turn the dial on to change channels. And we had three channels, 2, 7 and 9.

["couldbecousin"]

Oh I used to hate black and white tv. Things just don't look right. I remember when I was growing up a friend of mine had black and white tv and I refused to watch it, heh.

The first tv I remember our family having was a big coloured one which you had to turn the dial on to change channels. And we had three channels, 2, 7 and 9.

 We had the manual dial too, and the button that you pulled out to turn the TV on and pushed in to turn the TV off.   

[RageBeoulve]

I remember the kind of tv that you opened the panel and turned the little dials to make preset channels, and then pushed little silver buttons outside the panel to go to the presets.

[Queen Victoria]

And indoor and outdoor TV antennas. 

Dad on the roof with us in the living room and the window open relaying info to him on the best direction for the antenna for TV reception.

[renaeden]

Oh I used to hate black and white tv. Things just don't look right. I remember when I was growing up a friend of mine had black and white tv and I refused to watch it, heh.

The first tv I remember our family having was a big coloured one which you had to turn the dial on to change channels. And we had three channels, 2, 7 and 9.

 We had the manual dial too, and the button that you pulled out to turn the TV on and pushed in to turn the TV off.   

I remember that now. There was also room for the cat on top of the tv - he used to love the warmth there.

[odeon]

Movie night at home was on 16mm

Or Super 8. Anyone remember that format?

[TheoK]

Movie night at home was on 16mm

Or Super 8. Anyone remember that format?

Yup. We actually had it in the kindergarten. 

[odeon]

Movie night at home was on 16mm

Or Super 8. Anyone remember that format?

Yup. We actually had it in the kindergarten. 

I made lots of films with Super 8 equipment in my teens.

[Parts]

TV stations went off the air in the middle of the night

["couldbecousin"]

TV stations went off the air in the middle of the night

  YES!  I'd forgotten that!  Even when I first had cable in 1988/89, I remember certain stations would just show a test pattern
   in the wee hours of the morning, or they'd show hours of infomercials.  I miss the late 80s, they were dorky but fun.   

[renaeden]

TV stations went off the air in the middle of the night

  YES!  I'd forgotten that!  Even when I first had cable in 1988/89, I remember certain stations would just show a test pattern
   in the wee hours of the morning, or they'd show hours of infomercials.  I miss the late 80s, they were dorky but fun.   

Yeah I remember the test pattern and really daggy muzak (or however it is spelt). Either that or just static.

[Parts]

Typing and correction tape.   I used to use so much correction tape and white out I used to photocopy the papers to get them to look right

[renaeden]

I remember in Year 9 we had typing class. It was before I knew anything about computers and the internet. Geez I feel old.