February 19, 201016 yr I remember all of the bolded. I actually just bought Life but haven't played it yet.So that's what people mean when they tell me to get a life.
February 20, 201016 yr My grandmothers number was actually BR-549 Wasn't that the phone number to Junior Sample's Car lot on Hee-Haw too? :lol:
February 20, 201016 yr Rotary phones were the only option. Though I am sure there are still several homes with them.Very, very, few. Most modern phone circuits don't support pulse dialing.
February 20, 201016 yr When you had to get up off the couch to change a station. When you had to stand holding the antenna with one foot off the ground to get a picture. When you had to use a vertical image knob to stop the image from flipping over and over and over. Vertical Hold Knob.
February 20, 201016 yr CB radios? Breaker, breaker 19. (Before 1974 or 75 the trucker channel was channel 11 and there were only 23 channels.) "Keep the sunny side up and the greasy side down. This is the swamprat in the Idiot Junction Control Rocket Car. We're 10-10 and on the side." And that, my friends, is where my alias, swamprat, comes from. BTW, the Idiot Junction Control Rocket Car was a 1970 AMC Hornet with a Torque Command 199 straight 6 under the hood. She'd go 105 mph down hill with a tail wind and two heavy guys in it rocking back and forth. Had a quadraphonic 8-Track in it, too. The Idiot Junction Control was my father's base station. We ran a 500 KW linear amp output to a set of Moon Raker IVs on a 50ft tower. Compensate, compensate.
February 20, 201016 yr OnTV and later HBO, on cable, would scramble the picture by throwing in a 60 hertz distortion into the horizontal sync frequency being broadcast or adding the distortion inside your cable box. Removing the distortion was a breeze. Making a filter for over the air or cutting the tabs in a cable box to eliminate the distortion was all it took to get pay TV for free.
February 20, 201016 yr Tube technology. You could fix your own TV by taking the tubes out, testing them at a local Radio Shack or drug store, and buying replacements.
February 20, 201016 yr Being a computer geek, what about Dec 10's or the IBM 360 and 370 Mainframe computers. And the Vax. At UK, we programmed Fortan and COBOL on the IBMs, Pascal on PDP11s, and had teletypes to program Basic on UofL's Dec 10. Whoo hoo!! My Blackberry has 1000 times the processing capabilities of any of those systems. Sometimes I miss my TRS-80, though.
February 20, 201016 yr OnTV and later HBO, on cable, would scramble the picture by throwing in a 60 hertz distortion into the horizontal sync frequency being broadcast or adding the distortion inside your cable box. Removing the distortion was a breeze. Making a filter for over the air or cutting the tabs in a cable box to eliminate the distortion was all it took to get pay TV for free.Oh yeah, now you tell me! :irked:
February 20, 201016 yr The Idiot Junction Control was my father's base station. We ran a 500 KW linear amp output to a set of Moon Raker IVs on a 50ft tower. Compensate, compensate. You had a linear? Oh, I am SO tellin' on you! :eek: By the way, could you gimme a radio check; tell me what I'm pushin' on this thing? How'm I modulatin' out that way? 8's and 2's.
February 20, 201016 yr You had a linear? Oh, I am SO tellin' on you! :eek: By the way, could you gimme a radio check; tell me what I'm pushin' on this thing? How'm I modulatin' out that way? 8's and 2's. Remember Screaming Eagles?
February 20, 201016 yr Remember Screaming Eagles?I don't think so. My brother got me hooked on CB's somewhere around 1976. He had a huge antenna stuck to the house outside our room. We used to have particular channels where we would "gather" each night with a group of regulars. It was very much like BGP. You could talk about anything, but you had certain boundaries, and conventions to follow. My brother's handle was "Cold Cut" and mine was "Speed Buggy." Toward the end of the fad, a really nice man left all of his base station equipment to me in his will. I had an awesome set-up, with a stick mike, a mobile...and a linear.
February 20, 201016 yr Add to that Vertibird and SSP Racers! :banana: :banana: :banana: Ah man, the vertibird!!! I remember the one year that is all I wanted to Christmas. I went all morning and opened everything, and no helicopter. Then that afternoon, alll the sudden someone said, hey, what is this present behind the couch??? Well, it was my bird. Think I played with that darn thing for 24 hours straight!! Thanks for reminding me of it.
February 20, 201016 yr A lot of stations wouldn't go to a blank screen at the end of the broadcast day, they'd put up a test pattern. There is a bit on Cheech and Chong's "Big Bamboo" album where Cheech comes into a house and Tommy Chong is watching TV. You hear a solid tone in the backround. Cheech asks, "What are you watching?" Chong replies, "I'm watching this Indian movie, man, but it's really boring." If you don't remember the old black and white test pattern, you won't get it.
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