You know you're old when...

Esteban · 06-22-2021, 05:13 PM

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Originally Posted by TommyG-inFlaNow

-I remember the Tv repair man coming to change the tubes in my grandparents TV
-I remember going to Spring Break in Daytona and MTV playing music

My dad used to take the tubes to the supermarket to test them.

UncleWede · 06-22-2021, 05:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Esteban

… and my LPs.

I think I found my turntable in my son's room last night.

Interested on an initial bid?

Esteban · 06-22-2021, 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by UncleWede

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Originally Posted by Esteban

… and my LPs.

I think I found my turntable in my son's room last night.

Interested on an initial bid?

No, but thanks. Curious, does it still work?

New ones available to purchase if I really wanted one. Don't know that I do.

JJ 911SC · 06-22-2021, 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Esteban

My dad used to take the tubes to the supermarket to test them.

Did that too...

Esteban · 06-22-2021, 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by JJ 911SC

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Originally Posted by Esteban

My dad used to take the tubes to the supermarket to test them.

Did that too...

When I was a kid my dad used to buy all our TVs used. We were poor. Didn't have a color TV til they had already been out for years.

3798j · 06-22-2021, 06:07 PM

The family's first TV (a Stromberg Carlson) only had VHF channels 2 thru 13. When our hometown had a UHF station, channel21, go on the air, my Dad purchased a UHF tuner (channels 14-51)..it sat on top of the TV.

Esteban · 06-22-2021, 06:12 PM

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Originally Posted by 3798j

The family's first TV (a Stromberg Carlson) only had VHF channels 2 thru 13. When our hometown had a UHF station, channel21, go on the air, my Dad purchased a UHF tuner (channels 14-51)..it sat on top of the TV.

Those were the channels I had all through childhood. 2,4,5,7,9,11, and 13.

Look at the hundreds we have now…
and still nothing to watch. lol

M_Six · 06-22-2021, 06:30 PM

When you're disappointed that a favorite former watering hole is closing, then realize you haven't been there in over 30 years.

vreihen16 · 06-22-2021, 07:43 PM

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Originally Posted by TommyG-inFlaNow

-I remember going to Spring Break in Daytona and MTV playing music

I remember being *on* MTV at Spring Break in Daytona back in the day!!!!!

3.0L · 06-22-2021, 07:57 PM

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Originally Posted by TommyG-inFlaNow

-I remember the Tv repair man coming to change the tubes in my grandparents TV
-I remember going to Spring Break in Daytona and MTV playing music

I think I spent 1/2 of my life looking at the backside of TV sets.

We also tested tubes for walk-in customers. Typically, they carried the tubes in a lunch sack. The smarter customers carefully labeled their tubes with masking tape and numbers. One memorable day, a fellow emptied his sack onto the counter, then pointed to a rather mangled aluminum "tube." Turns out, that was an electrolytic capacitor. He said that he had to use pliers to remove it.

We generally discouraged customers going into our shop. At the entrance, we posted a sign that seemed to work pretty good: "DANGER! 500,000 Ω!

Skoidat69 · 06-22-2021, 08:30 PM

I had to explain what Far Side cartoons were after making a joke about the Midvale School for the Gifted..

dscabra · 06-22-2021, 09:51 PM

I sold my pristine, in the original box, JVC QL-Y66F turntable last year for $1,200. I then sold off most of my album collection for $5 to $50 per album.

UncleWede · 06-23-2021, 10:36 AM

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I had to explain what Far Side cartoons were after making a joke about the Midvale School for the Gifted..

At least a few times a week I say out loud "Midvale School for the Gifted"!!! Almost exclusively in response to something *I* did

1MOREMOD · 06-23-2021, 03:23 PM

You guys aren't old you remember that kind of crap

Suds · 06-25-2021, 12:41 AM

My mom let me stay in my pajamas and play around in the house on a weekday while she watched a funeral procession on TV, JFK.

rbhjr01462 · 06-26-2021, 11:10 AM

When see "CRT" in tweets/posts, I think of Cathode Ray Tube.

JJ 911SC · 06-26-2021, 12:39 PM

You remember having to peel the Hot Dogs before cooking them.

floridaorange · 06-27-2021, 08:19 PM

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Originally Posted by JJ 911SC

You remember having to peel the Hot Dogs before cooking them.

really??

3.0L · 06-27-2021, 09:16 PM

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You remember having to peel the Hot Dogs before cooking them.

We electrocuted out hotdogs on the dinner table with a wicked device dad made in high school shop. Dad said, "Don't touch the spikes," so we didn't.

UncleWede · 06-28-2021, 12:28 PM

You can remember HOW to ding-dong ditch, but you'd not make it down the entry walk before people open the door now.

3.0L · 06-28-2021, 01:11 PM

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You can remember HOW to ding-dong ditch, but you'd not make it down the entry walk before people open the door now.

Ha, yeah! We called it, "Ring and Run" when we were kids. I don't think we ever got caught.

After we got tired of Ring and Run, we did the UFO thing. Basically, we figured out how to make our own hydrogen balloon with a disposable aluminum pie pan suspended by 3 threads. In the middle of the pan was a small light bulb, aimed at the bottom of the balloon and powered by a single AA cell. Once up in the night air, the pie pan was invisible and the balloon seemed to glow. We got quite a few of the neighbors excited over that one. Heh!

cmyx6go · 06-28-2021, 01:22 PM

Cameras killed ring and run and caller ID killed prank calls. These poor kids....

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