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[JohnP82]

Scrat is awesome!!! I could watch him all day!

 

[rmabrey]

I love scrat... Makes me smile.

Had to do a double take

 

[rmabrey]

Yeah! It's not good that I know what your talking about

Even I know what he means

 

[Expat]

Yeah! It's not good that I know what your talking about

Remember the old black and white test patterns. Channels would go off at night. Playing the National Anthem at the end of the days broadcasting.

 

[HotPocket]

Thanks Expat !!

 

[DaKruiser]

Thanks Expat !!

Some body is not to far from GOLD!

 

[UncleMike]

Remember the old black and white test patterns. Channels would go off at night. Playing the National Anthem at the end of the days broadcasting.

Hell Expat!
I remember round picture tubes and only having TWO channels!


Aw crap!
Now I feel old again.

 

[irishfan]

Hell Expat!
I remember round picture tubes and only having TWO channels!


Aw crap!
Now I feel old again.

Hey, I seen those in a museum I believe

 

[Expat]

Hell Expat!
I remember round picture tubes and only having TWO channels!


Aw crap!
Now I feel old again.

Don't remember round tubes. When I was a kid we got 4 channels. 4, 6, 8 and 13.

 

[UncleMike]

Don't remember round tubes. When I was a kid we got 4 channels. 4, 6, 8 and 13.

We had Wane (15) and WKJG (33). WPTA (21) came along later.
If you had a REAL tall outside antenna (Remember those?) you could get Kalamazoo on a good day.

 

[spasmo]

Did anyone ever spin the dial on the TV and get into trouble cause they might break it? Hehehe.

 

[OneBadV8]

Some body is not to far from GOLD!

I tried, but had to spread it... then I ran out.


Got you a bronze though

 

[Expat]

We had Wane (15) and WKJG (33). WPTA (21) came along later.
If you had a REAL tall outside antenna (Remember those?) you could get Kalamazoo on a good day.

In Kokomo we got the Indy channels. Some of the people with big antennaes could get a few others. Dad, did not think TV was as important as I do. My Uncle on the north side could get WGN. I used to go over to watch the Cubs and Bears games.

 

[irishfan]

Did anyone ever spin the dial on the TV and get into trouble cause they might break it? Hehehe.

Wow!!! We had remote controls when I was a kid.

 

[Expat]

Wow!!! We had remote controls when I was a kid.

We did too, it was us kids

 

[HotPocket]

Some body is not to far from GOLD!

 

[spasmo]

We eventually got those. They were big and bulky with few buttons if I recall correctly. Of course, you are going to also tell me you have no idea what a commodore 64 is or a TI-99a or an atari 2600 is?? Then next, you are going to tell me you have also never heard of the Mattel Electronics handheld football game??

 

[rmabrey]

I remember our first cable box, I had to manually change the channel on it

 

[spasmo]

We never had a cable box that I recall. I do remember that the person installing the cable could actually just give you whatever channels he wanted by doing something outside at the box.

 

[UncleMike]

We did too, it was us kids

Yup!
Our remote was named Mike.
"Get channel 15 Mike!!"
"Turn up the volume Mike!!"
"Shut up Mike!!" (That was the mute feature.)