And don't forget the time it took between pushing the power button and the emergence of the image. You had to time it. Five to ten minutes to get the thing to reach the right temprature.
😂 and not to forget adjusting those antennas to find a perfect position based on current weather, location of nearest windows, and other disturbances of the moment ...
I was twelve when my family got a tv. I was the kid who was told to change the channel. I loved doing that. Saw the moon walk on that tv. Also the daily carnage of Vietnam. But gee. Johnny Carson was a kick. And does any one remember ‘the prisoner? Laugh in. Rowan and Martin! Ah the great westerns. Oh yeah.
I remember these days! We could spend all evening wrapping foil on the "rabbit ears" and moving them in all directions trying to get a picture. Even worse, when we got an antenna on the roof of the house, some brave soul (male of course) had to get up there and adjust the angle. Oh the good old days!! :)
You could have been describing our house most nights, it was the entertainment equivalent of bread and jam. “ Not much on the box last night “ was a familiar refrain the next morning. Always true.
But TV was a shared family experience that I think we’re the poorer for losing. Nostalgic and most amusing!
I got my first TV when I was 14. (1982) I had to go to my friend's house to watch the first episode of MTV. I had already been working for two years and had to ask for the night off.
I started life with only one channel. Watch With Mother at 2 o'clock and that was it. Andy Pandy, Bill and Ben, The Woodentops. We were made of sterner stuff in those days. If your dad hit you over the head with a poker you didn't run to social services to complain. No, you got back to peeling onions. Just saying...
Here’s my high tech snark, “back when I was your age”.
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When I was your age, there was nothing but huge mainframe computers.
Rooms filled with hardware. These were steam-powered computers and in each cluster of workstations, we had to take turns every fifteen minutes for shoveling in more finely powdered coal to keep the pressure up enough. Only then could we type in our COBOL source code.
That coal being finely powdered, being handled without protective gear, resulted in many programmers developing “nerd lung disease”.
And don't forget the time it took between pushing the power button and the emergence of the image. You had to time it. Five to ten minutes to get the thing to reach the right temprature.
They took some time to warm up
😂 and not to forget adjusting those antennas to find a perfect position based on current weather, location of nearest windows, and other disturbances of the moment ...
Yes definitely science involved
I was twelve when my family got a tv. I was the kid who was told to change the channel. I loved doing that. Saw the moon walk on that tv. Also the daily carnage of Vietnam. But gee. Johnny Carson was a kick. And does any one remember ‘the prisoner? Laugh in. Rowan and Martin! Ah the great westerns. Oh yeah.
I remember all those
Here in America, we had more channels to choose from, but still had to get up to change them. Don't know how we survived those primitive times.
Sterner stuff
For sure.
You were lucky. We had to walk 3 miles in the snow, uphill both ways, just to change the channel 😅
My best friend wasn't allowed to watch ITV, so no Magpie, Catweazle or The Tomorrow People. So daft!
I was a bit to old for those kids shows so never bothered with them 😀
That's a shame. They were very good.
In reality I'd probably still have watched them even if I was too old 🤣
I remember them being on the TV
P.S. I see you're in the UK. I had the pleasure of visiting the Bonanza ranch one time, which is in the Lake Tahoe area of California. Beautiful!
I did visit Lake Tahoe one year it was a beautiful place
I remember these days! We could spend all evening wrapping foil on the "rabbit ears" and moving them in all directions trying to get a picture. Even worse, when we got an antenna on the roof of the house, some brave soul (male of course) had to get up there and adjust the angle. Oh the good old days!! :)
you could hire people to put the aerial on the roof. Seems an age ago
You could have been describing our house most nights, it was the entertainment equivalent of bread and jam. “ Not much on the box last night “ was a familiar refrain the next morning. Always true.
But TV was a shared family experience that I think we’re the poorer for losing. Nostalgic and most amusing!
Yes it was back then
I got my first TV when I was 14. (1982) I had to go to my friend's house to watch the first episode of MTV. I had already been working for two years and had to ask for the night off.
Amazing what we used to get excited about. I remember rushing home to be in time for certain TV series
I started life with only one channel. Watch With Mother at 2 o'clock and that was it. Andy Pandy, Bill and Ben, The Woodentops. We were made of sterner stuff in those days. If your dad hit you over the head with a poker you didn't run to social services to complain. No, you got back to peeling onions. Just saying...
Made us all stronger and independent. Didn’t like it though
Here’s my high tech snark, “back when I was your age”.
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When I was your age, there was nothing but huge mainframe computers.
Rooms filled with hardware. These were steam-powered computers and in each cluster of workstations, we had to take turns every fifteen minutes for shoveling in more finely powdered coal to keep the pressure up enough. Only then could we type in our COBOL source code.
That coal being finely powdered, being handled without protective gear, resulted in many programmers developing “nerd lung disease”.