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Bon Basil
ANSWERS: 25
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Yes, very well.
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I was the remote control. I was the youngest in the family. Do this, do that, and if not...well, let's just say...I had two older brothers.
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Yes, I was in much better shape back then. I even remember when they had dials instead of buttons.
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Yes, we had pliers for after the knob fell off and was lost.
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Yes, I was the remote.
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G'day Bon Basil, Thank you for your question. Yes, I do. We only used to have three channels. Luckily, I had two younger brothers so I learnt the art of delegation. Regards
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I still have one that isn't used anymore. The last time it was used was for our Super Nintendo console.
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Yes, and I remember when there were only 4 channels to choose from. ABC, NBC, CBS, and PBS. I also remember when we got our first color tv.
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Being the youngest of five kids I was the one who got posted up close to the tv and had to flip the dial back and forth when requested. Then I remember when the cable box came with a longer cord and it sat next to my dads chair so he could change the channel and I only became the volume slave.
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born in 1982....
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Yes I do. I still have one in my bedroom that works. It's so irritating though when you have to get up out of bed to go "turn" the channel.
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Yup. And I remember when the first remotes came out. Ours was attached to the tv by a long cord. Not very remote if you ask me :O)
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Yep. We only had a few channels to choose from.
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i remember that and the 4 stations.i also rememer that each station went off at night to the flag and music and came on in the morning the same way
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I remember even the time where remote controls did not have TVs...
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I still remember TVs with timers. How long you got to watch depended on how much money you fed into it.
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Absolutely. I still remember when we got our first color TV -- a Zenith. Seemed like the greatest day ever, because I could see Technicolor cartoons. Our first remote had a cord, too. Our dog tripped over it constantly. But it made a great jump rope. Ah, the days before technology made it easier to sit on our duffs and take root on our upholstered furniture. Maybe that's why I was skinnier back then. :->
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Sad, isn't it!
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Ohhhh yeah. I also remember out first remote, it was not one of those wired ones, it was a clicker, actually worked off of the sounds, each button made a diff sound, there was an Off but no On. Volume Up and Down, and Change Channel. The dial actually turned , Clunk, clunk,clunk but only one way. If you passed the channel you had to go all the way around again.
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Oh... YES THEY DID... My brother and I were the remotes! LOL Then we got one of those that kinda sounded like a muted chime (3 tones - On/Off, channel up and channel down, I believe). Didn't work half the time... meaning WE were still the remotes. Besides, there were ONLY 3-4 channels in our area. I knew we had cable when I came home from school or work one day, and my little brother and a friend were sitting in front of the tv watching "The Great Texas Dynamite Chase" with Johnny Crawford and a couple of naked girls. I passed by, then did a complete double-take (only REAL one I can ever remember doing), and went back to see what they were watching. LOL THOSE remotes worked ONLY on the cable box.
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I remember when most all TVs were black and white. Only very wealthy people could afford color ones.
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I was a kid back then and usually the one asked to change the channels. Also we had "rabbit ears" (antennas) on top of the tv that needed to keep being adjusted to get the signal clearer. Those were the days..... NOT!!! Heheh! :)
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Not really. Even in the early 60s, maybe back as far as 1959, we had a nice big Packard Bell TV, black and white, that had a remote control, though it was just a box that was attached to teh TV by a very long wire. It had a dial to change the channels (we got all of 13!!!) and we could turn it on and off and volume. THe box was also a remote speaker so you could take it to the couch and listen to the box and cuddle under the covers. I loved it as a kid:-)
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Yes, but when we first got a television there was only one channel and it was black and white.
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I remember no remotes and then we got the remotes on a chord. Dad rearranged the den for the chorded remote. I remember the day we got cable! I remember renting a BetaMax VCR, too.
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