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Hey i had C-band Sattalite when i was little, took an hour to get a satallite tuned in, and even longer to find a station you knew.
We also had the futureistic hot air popcorn maker!..
Guess i didnt have it all that hard!
(oh I had an intellivision instead of the 2600 too!)
I do remeber copying audio cassettes to in school, not many people had the hifi with a dual cassette deck then
While I’m not 30 yet, a lot of those things sure do bring back some memories.
Growing up, our rabbit ears only picked up two TV stations, PBS and NBC. This limited the viewing options a bit. Fortunately, Saturday Night Live was actually funny back then. Between 1:00-2:00am both of these stations would go “off the air”, which these days means 6 hours of infomercials but back then it meant 6 hours of fuzzy static.
Taping songs off the radio – it was usually worth the wait if you eventually got it! And then you could play the tape in your Walkman, which had no rewind button, so in order to hear it again you had to take the tape out and flip it, fast-forward it for a little while, take it out and flip it again, and hope you got the right spot… otherwise repeat the process. After a while you would know the exact length of time it needed to be fast-forwarded for each song.
Climate control meant using a fan during summer, a wood stove during the winter, and a window during the spring or fall.
And I remember the Atari. One of the few games we had for it was a Casino game. I recall watching my parents play blackjack on it.
Touch-tone dialing wasn’t available in the area I grew up in. If you had a push-button phone it had to be set to “pulse”.
Ah, the good old days. :tongue:
Lets not forget the value of a pay phone!
I can one up the phone cord as I am a bit older 70s era and I grew up in a farming community and we had a party phone line. Not really much of a party though it meant you shared the line with a few neighbors and had to be cordial when they picked up their phone and give up on your conversation especially when it was an adult on the other end. As far as privacy goes you had none. :whoa:
As far as the cable goes it didn’t exist we had a large ugly antenna on the roof that may have picked up 5 channels. I remember my Dad sending my older brother up on the roof to turn it just right to pickup the Sunday football game :laughing:
BTW I cant believe I found it this exact TV Wow I am getting old Don’t laugh
BradHaha.
Not 30 yet, but having lived in country far removed from the rest of the world, I can relate to bunch of those, especially the walk-man bit. I used to walk around with the phones on my head for hours, listening to songs “pirated” off the radio stations.
Hey
Re-living some memories :tongue:
Does anyone remember this sweet ride?http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g304/firstflightbikes/Manta%20Ray%20Orange/PC220010.jpg
1970s Schwinn……. what was that bar on the back called? It Made it look like a chopper when you raised it up and lowered the seat.
Brad
