[ale] OT Re[2]: Is this for Real

[Christopher Bergeron]

Heh.  _I_ was my Dad's remote control.  We had 12 channels on our set 
(13 total, but the FCC prevented anyone from using #1), replete with 2 
knobs/dials:  one to tune the channel and one to tune the picture.

When betamax came out, we actually had a remote control - replete with a 
tethered cable.

Them's was the days!  At 8 PM, You were watching either:  Hee-Haw, Wheel 
of Fortune, the News, or PBS.  Luckily for me, I was busy queing up the 
Star Trek cassette on my TRS-80.

Wow!  Thanks for the memories!

Kind regards,
Chris Bergeron






Robert Reese wrote:
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> On 4/10/2007 at 8:11 AM Jeff Lightner wrote:
>
>   
>> I must be old.   Until I was a teenager one was lucky to even get 4
>> channels (ABC, NBC, CBS and PBS) because outside the big cities usually
>> there was only 1 network station and *possibly* access to a public TV
>> station.
>>
>> Even once basic cable came in we only had about 13 channels originally
>> and many of those were duplicate network affiliates from the nearest big
>> city.   I remember my disgust when I first subscribed to HBO as one of
>> the few premiums available only to have part it its schedule eaten up
>> with things like Fraggle Rock.
>>     
>
> I was lucky growing up... we had *seven* channels, and one even lasted past Midnight on the weekends!  (Do you remember waking up in the La-Z-Boy having passed out, barely able to move from the hypnotic effect of tv snow?  That was some good snoozin')
>
> BTW, our first cable came with a set-top box with a little knob labelled "OFF" and "ON".  Appropriately, it was called ONTV.  Yes, it had exactly *one* channel.  HBO came out about a year later as a competitor, and IIRC, it had four channels and something most people had never seen... a remote control.
>
> Now where'd I put that Just For Men....
>
> Robert~
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