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Are you too young to remember these? (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 25 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

We just had the twin lead wire coming from the antenna on the roof, through the wall, and hooked to the back of the TV. We didn't get a color TV until I was about eight years old. My mom didn't like the color, she thought they looked wrong, so we had black and white until she saw a Sony TV. (Early 70s)

The old B&W TV looked something like this:

This was our first VCR. I think this was the first digital clock we had in the house, too:

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  • [–] 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Whoa... Not flashing 12:00, check out Linus Torvalds here.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    LOL. That's not a picture of our actual VCR, just one of the same model.

    But, my dad was an aircraft mechanic. He knew his way around tech well enough. Our clocks were always set correctly, as it happens.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    My parents had a b&w TV into the mid 80s.

    When they got a colour TV it also coincided with getting a Commodore 64, so naturally they suggested using the old TV for the computer.

    Funny thing is that the C64 colour palette was prepared for this. The 16 colours weren't just random picks on the colour wheel, they also functioned as 4 different shades when shown on b&w.

    Shortly after we did get the proper monitor but it still had a switch so you could still check how the your graphics looked in b&w.

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