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:
Whoa… Not flashing 12:00, check out Linus Torvalds here.
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.
Everything back then weighed 80-100lbs.
Except tvs, they weighed even more.
I am this old.
Older
Yeah? Those were on the ps2
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.
I see that and raise you computer programs you got from magazines you had to type in for an hour.
I am this many years old.Came here to post this.
Before my time but I did run across these as a kid. Even played a few games, too.
My brother/sister thank you, that takes me back. Had the og Nintendo going through that
What channel would you use? I always used channel three and swore channel four gave a worse signal.
In my area channel 4 had a TV station on it and channel 3 didn’t, se channel 3 was the available default for these things.
That explains the slight interference I was getting. There must have been a signal just in range to scramble things but not close enough to see or hear. Our stations were on 12, 6 and 10 and you could get PBS on 32 on UHF.
I have that exact model with my 2600!
crumbles into dust
I modified my 2600 to have compositie output instead. It also slightly improves the video quality
I am this old as well but there’s a reason I always have a screwdriver handy
Oh ye with a weak thumbnail!
I feel simultaneously seen and called out.
Came here to say the same
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.
You know how you think it’s better to keep them, just in case?
It is.
Weird obscure cable you haven’t used in 10 years?
Guaranteed to need it 7 days after getting rid of it
I am SCART old
Yes.
Yes I am that old. I am so old that when I was a kid my first PC was running DOS with windows 3.1. Granted it was because my parents couldn’t afford a brand new PC with Windows 95.
So at 5-6 years old I was typing “CD JAZZ enter JAZZ” to open The shareware Jazz Jackrabbit.
My first real console was the PS1 at eight years old and I used the plugs in that picture.
Thankyou for coming with me down my history, I don’t talk about it for you. I talk about it so I don’t forget it…
Bitch i’m this old
Is that old? I still have devices using tulp. Modern day mixers and CDJ’s still use tulp connections, as do proper amps.
I’m this old:
That’s old? Try this
Yours needed a dongle to connect to the serial port?!
And what the hell is that thing between the left and right buttons?
“not THAT kind of PS2…”
I’m literally watching a baseball game with the right picture in the back of my second monitor, and it’s plugged into an adapter for the left picture in my PC.
I’m 39.
I’m 39
Same. Time for a monitor and gpu upgrade mate.
I typed the long form of this before, but I bought a projector with no sound system, and just hooked up my existing small TV to the composite audio and the display to the projector
Give me a second to switch my oscilloscope to XY mode.
dude… i hooked up my sega master system II to my TV up the Antenna port with that little switch box.
Switch over for a quick round of Alex Kidd in Miracle World at my friend’s place. I found it so fascinating after manually switching cables between the antenna and Commodore 64 at home.
This. This is how old. OP needs to get off my lawn.
This guy olds.
There it is!
Same. Except Atari, and Nintendo too
Same. Except generic Pong console.
That I played by myself and got it to bounce back and forth so I could go to the bathroom. Oh mine was legit Atari Pong.
Spectravideo and NES for me.
