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[–] 79 points 5 months ago (17 children)

I think my equivalent at that age would have been going to a friend's house to watch their newly acquired colour TV instead of our B/W one.

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  • [–] 25 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Before that, listening to the radio.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I remember the good old days when my friend would come over and we'd turn on my black and white TV, and change it to channel 3 so that we could play a "doubles tennis" version of pong on the little pong console we owned.

    Now, this may cause you to exclaim, "How fucking old is this guy?" But what you may not know is that my parents rarely threw old electronics away. That could have happened maybe as late as the mid 90s.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    I had a Panasonic crystal clear b&w tv until 2004... I loved that TV.

    I watched most of star trek in black and white with a high pitched whine only I could hear

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    I've got a portable b&w TV that I used until they shut down the analog transmitters. It has a really good tuner that would pick up lots of channels with the built in antenna. The digital transmitters are much weaker. I can't receive a single one with an indoor antenna.

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