▲ 434 ▼ Are you too young to remember these? (thelemmy.club) submitted 3 weeks ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world 204 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] mrmisses@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children) And then you pull too hard on the power button and it comes off and you get hit/yelled at by dad permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 child) I had an old small tv like that in my bedroom. There was a dial for vhf and another for UHF. The two UHF channels we had were about 20 and 31, but I found if I dialed it all the way to 90 or so sometimes I could hear voices talking to each other. Usually just boring phone calls, I showed my friends once and we listened to my friends uncle on a call by chance, he recognised the voice and the people he was talking about. Then they switched mobile phones to a digital signal. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] recursivethinking@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago Landline portable antenna phones had some prettybad channel bleed, esp if you live in an apt complex with a local Walmart - bunch of phones would all be the same cheapo Panasonic (or whatever) model and we'd hear someone pretty often if you stand in the right spot. permalink fedilink source parent [–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago Now that's what I call a proper television permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 child) I had an old small tv like that in my bedroom. There was a dial for vhf and another for UHF. The two UHF channels we had were about 20 and 31, but I found if I dialed it all the way to 90 or so sometimes I could hear voices talking to each other. Usually just boring phone calls, I showed my friends once and we listened to my friends uncle on a call by chance, he recognised the voice and the people he was talking about. Then they switched mobile phones to a digital signal. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] recursivethinking@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago Landline portable antenna phones had some prettybad channel bleed, esp if you live in an apt complex with a local Walmart - bunch of phones would all be the same cheapo Panasonic (or whatever) model and we'd hear someone pretty often if you stand in the right spot. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] recursivethinking@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago Landline portable antenna phones had some prettybad channel bleed, esp if you live in an apt complex with a local Walmart - bunch of phones would all be the same cheapo Panasonic (or whatever) model and we'd hear someone pretty often if you stand in the right spot. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago Now that's what I call a proper television permalink fedilink source parent
