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[–] lemmy_at_em@lemmy.world 27 points 3 hours ago (6 children)
[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 points 3 minutes ago

Came here to post this.

[–] KC_Royalz@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I am this old as well but there's a reason I always have a screwdriver handy

[–] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Oh ye with a weak thumbnail!

[–] nickiwest@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

I feel simultaneously seen and called out.

[–] DudleyMason@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

Came here to say the same

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 hours ago

I have that exact model with my 2600!

crumbles into dust

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 hours ago

Before my time but I did run across these as a kid. Even played a few games, too.

[–] drath@lemmy.drath.ru 1 points 1 hour ago

Who doesn't know RCA? That's left, right, and sub!

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 11 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 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:

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Everything back then weighed 80-100lbs.

[–] Dultas@lemmy.world 1 points 19 minutes ago

Except tvs, they weighed even more.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 hours ago

I am SCART old

[–] Signtist@bookwyr.me 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I remember being so excited when my family got a box to convert composite cables to coaxial so they would work with our old TV. I got my friend to bring over his gamecube all the time until I finally got my own after a few months.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 hours ago

I see that and raise you computer programs you got from magazines you had to type in for an hour.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 89 points 7 hours ago (18 children)

I'm "turn to channel 3" old...

[–] will@piefed.zip 1 points 30 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] vrek@programming.dev 1 points 11 minutes ago

Yeah but I had a knock off brans

[–] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

But I just got comfortable!

[–] vrek@programming.dev 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Just be happy you don't have to move the rabbit ears around till I get a good image

[–] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 1 points 8 minutes ago
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[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago
[–] DementedSociety@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Oh a simpler time. When nothing needed to update, billion/trillionaires didn't exist, and no one was trying to steal every normal of your data to rip you off and con you politically. I miss riding bikes till the street lights came on.

[–] thallamabond@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Rockefeller became the country's first billionaire on 28 September 1916

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller

Remember the warm glow of the yellow/orange street lights? There gone now too, just like the hummingbirds and the fireflies.

[–] DementedSociety@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Why did you have to shatter the small bit of perceived relief I had!!??

[–] thallamabond@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Thought you might want to know. Information is power.

[–] DementedSociety@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

100%. It is always better to know. I think that's what draws us all to this place.

At the same time, fuuuuuck man. 😔

I think capitalism is humanities terminal illness.

So much potential wasted.

[–] watson387@sopuli.xyz 1 points 54 minutes ago

"Now I know!"
"And knowing is half the battle!"

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 28 points 7 hours ago (3 children)
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[–] OldGrayDog@fedinsfw.app 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Just came across a bunch of composite cables in a bin I was going through as I'm moving. I've got way too much of this kind of stuff that I need to get rid of. I hate moving.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

You know how you think it's better to keep them, just in case?

It is.

[–] valkyre09@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

Weird obscure cable you haven’t used in 10 years?

Guaranteed to need it 7 days after getting rid of it

[–] negativenull@piefed.world 20 points 6 hours ago (7 children)

This is why I have chips out of my shins.

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[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 35 points 8 hours ago (5 children)

dude... i hooked up my sega master system II to my TV up the Antenna port with that little switch box.

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