I'm so old that ....

[LadyVer]

Walk to the nearest home improvement store and buy a digital antenna and hang it on the wall next to your cheap modern TV. Cost around $35 for at least A DOZEN CHANNELS IN MOST PLACES.
It's about the size of a car CB radio.

Where can I buy a cheap TV these days?

 

[Weird Harold]

Where can I buy a cheap TV these days?

I got mine at K-Mart.

 

[imalickin]

Where can I buy a cheap TV these days?

Amazon.

Here ya go. 15-Inch 720p 60Hz LED TV with DVD Player

or on the UK site...

19" HD Ready 720p LED TV - Freeview & Intergrated DVD

 

[romer12]

remember ?

I'm so old I can't remember...............

 

[Que]

I remember a time before every lazy kid had ADD. I remember getting slapped in the back of the head and told to pay attention....and it worked.

I remember pong on a console that was just a TV on its back. Back when TVs were cathode ray tubes.

I remember that getting an early mcrowave was cool and a novelty. Our first VCR loaded from the top and had clunky, analog tuning dials. There were no pre-recorded tapes available. Movie studios were sure doing so would kill theaters.

I remember when Sony used expensive lawyers to win the Betamax case before they owned intellectual property themselves and watched as a decade later they hired expensive lawyers to argue exactly the opposite in the Napster case.

 

[ararejewel]

I remember the Sega Mega Drive.

 

[oggbashan]

As Og I remember Noah's Flood.

As me? Rationing, searching bomb sites for interesting bits of shrapnel and being jealous of my older brother because he had a better collection.

 

[NightL]

I punched cards - spat on them as well. Apple had arrived.

 

[JamesRTickit]

I remember

when people were polite.

(pre historic British)

 

[legerdemer]

I tell my wife all the time-and it pisses her off-Mary was the smartest con artist in the world.

She got knocked up at a time when women could get stoned to death for adultery so she said..."This baby is from God!" and they believed her.

Some day we will find out Jesus's father was a spice merchant.

God is a spice merchant - (s)he spices up otherwise dreary truth with magical promises and miracles.

And yes, I learned to program basic on punch cards. Fun times.

 

[oggbashan]

I punched cards - spat on them as well. Apple had arrived.

I was a System Manager for an IBM 1401 punched card driven mainframe, supervising 25 women punch operators. The women were aged between 15 and 25, and gave me more trouble than the equipment.

They taught me a lot.

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Denny

Where can I buy a cheap TV these days?

Wal-Mart 46" RCA $300.
We have it in our house in the midwest and our grandkids used it.

 

[wyldcyde]

I remember Television going off air at 1or 2 in the morning and not coming back on till 5 am

 

[geronimo_appleby]

i remember when a centurion was a rank and not a tank...

 

[midwestyankee]

I'm so old here that even some Democrats thought George W. Bush was doing an okay job as President when I joined. MySpace was a thing and teiPod wasn't.

 

[Kantarii]

Well,Hell

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Denny---<-----that's me! The male half

I remember Television going off air at 1or 2 in the morning and not coming back on till 5 am

Denny------------- Remember the test pattern?

And 20 times a day a sad face with the words SORRY WE ARE HAVING TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES

Or when kids could watch any TV program without worry of being X-rated.

I also remember our first 12' satellite dish and watching uncut operations in hospitals and real X-rated movies. Even Playboy After Dark.

 

[Kantarii]

I'm so old I remember my dad fertilizing the egg in my mom's pussy that would grow up to be me. Everything else before that seems to be a blur...hahaKant

 

[Flyin_Free]

$.02 postage stamps and $.25 hair cuts.

I remember the postage stamps

 

[Flyin_Free]

Denny------------- Remember the test pattern?

And 20 times a day a sad face with the words SORRY WE ARE HAVING TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES

Or when kids could watch any TV program without worry of being X-rated.

I also remember our first 12' satellite dish and watching uncut operations in hospitals and real X-rated movies. Even Playboy After Dark.

This is a test of the emergency broadcast system....

 

[oggbashan]

I remember the postage stamps

Back in the 1920s my father could send a postcard from Central London before noon to tell his mother living in the suburbs that he would be working overtime that evening. It cost him a halfpenny stamp (1/480th of a pound) and would be delivered before 5 pm. His parents had six postal deliveries a day.

 

[lovecraft68]

I remember UHF stations that were all static.

I remember the stations being off line then coming on at 6am opening with a scree of the American Flag and the Star Spangled Banner.

I remember when kids would call each other names and there would either be a fight to settle it or the kids would just ignore it or laugh it off.

Now mommy and daddy have to come into the school and go on a crusade to eliminate the word from the English language.

 

[phantom4533]

I remember when soda came in cans that looked like drygas.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I remember UHF stations that were all static.

I remember the stations being off line then coming on at 6am opening with a scree of the American Flag and the Star Spangled Banner.

I remember when kids would call each other names and there would either be a fight to settle it or the kids would just ignore it or laugh it off.

Now mommy and daddy have to come into the school and go on a crusade to eliminate the word from the English language.

I remember when there were only three tv channels in Chicago. Four if you count the PBS station that was only on the air for six hours

I remember when the tv stations would sign off at 11 pm and there would just be a test pattern for seven hours...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/RCA_Indian_Head_test_pattern.JPG/312px-RCA_Indian_Head_test_pattern.JPG

Now a days some schmuck would lobby to have the Indian removed because it was offensive?

I remember when soda came in just bottles or in a cup at the soda fountain.

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Denny---<-----that's me! The male half

This is a test of the emergency broadcast system....

Denny------------ I'm not the only one who remebers the test pattern when stations were off the air.

Do you remember when a Ford drove by and the station went fuzzy and went off the air until the Ford passed? Damned Fords!