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Re: remember when
« Reply #120 on: May 02, 2011, 05:49:03 AM »
1977? I was born then.

I remember when no one had more than one tv.
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Re: remember when
« Reply #121 on: May 02, 2011, 07:01:00 AM »
Quote from: renaeden on May 02, 2011, 05:49:03 AM
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!  :zoinks:
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Re: remember when
« Reply #122 on: May 02, 2011, 07:05:36 AM »
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.
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Re: remember when
« Reply #123 on: May 02, 2011, 07:07:41 AM »
Quote from: renaeden on May 02, 2011, 07:05:36 AM
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.    :nerdy:
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Re: remember when
« Reply #124 on: May 02, 2011, 07:10:58 AM »
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.
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Re: remember when
« Reply #125 on: May 02, 2011, 08:55:52 AM »
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.
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Re: remember when
« Reply #126 on: May 03, 2011, 12:14:18 AM »
Quote from: couldbecousin on May 02, 2011, 07:07:41 AM
Quote from: renaeden on May 02, 2011, 07:05:36 AM
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.    :nerdy:
I remember that now. There was also room for the cat on top of the tv - he used to love the warmth there.
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Re: remember when
« Reply #127 on: May 03, 2011, 04:08:50 PM »
Quote from: parts on May 01, 2011, 04:04:19 PM
Movie night at home was on 16mm

Or Super 8. Anyone remember that format?
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Re: remember when
« Reply #128 on: May 03, 2011, 04:10:39 PM »
Quote from: odeon on May 03, 2011, 04:08:50 PM
Quote from: parts on May 01, 2011, 04:04:19 PM
Movie night at home was on 16mm

Or Super 8. Anyone remember that format?

Yup. We actually had it in the kindergarten.  :viking:
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Re: remember when
« Reply #129 on: May 03, 2011, 04:18:39 PM »
Quote from: TheoK on May 03, 2011, 04:10:39 PM
Quote from: odeon on May 03, 2011, 04:08:50 PM
Quote from: parts on May 01, 2011, 04:04:19 PM
Movie night at home was on 16mm

Or Super 8. Anyone remember that format?

Yup. We actually had it in the kindergarten.  :viking:

I made lots of films with Super 8 equipment in my teens.
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Re: remember when
« Reply #130 on: May 03, 2011, 06:01:55 PM »
TV stations went off the air in the middle of the night
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Re: remember when
« Reply #131 on: May 03, 2011, 06:04:25 PM »
Quote from: parts on May 03, 2011, 06:01:55 PM
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.   :chin:
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Re: remember when
« Reply #132 on: May 04, 2011, 04:06:21 AM »
Quote from: couldbecousin on May 03, 2011, 06:04:25 PM
Quote from: parts on May 03, 2011, 06:01:55 PM
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.   :chin:
Yeah I remember the test pattern and really daggy muzak (or however it is spelt). Either that or just static.
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Re: remember when
« Reply #133 on: May 04, 2011, 05:19:56 AM »
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
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Re: remember when
« Reply #134 on: May 04, 2011, 05:22:47 AM »
I remember in Year 9 we had typing class. It was before I knew anything about computers and the internet. Geez I feel old.
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