Do you remember.

[Chippy_Tea]

Very thin fishing line tied to the door knocker then hide behind a car over the road and have some fun.

 

[BrewMeHappy]

Na, we were braver than that/not as resourceful All of us would hide except one who would do the nocking or door bell ringing, and then leg it to a safe hiding place.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Who remembers the yellow pages and the slogan - Let your fingers do the walking

 

[Chippy_Tea]

When smoking in the home was the done thing and we had a huge table lighter on the coffee table -

 

[Nidger]

My Dad ordered our first television set, a Ferranti, in around 1950,as a third Transmitter was being built at Holme Moss, which would be in range of our house in Preston. He chose it as it had all the knobs (contrast, brightness, horizontal and vertical hold, volume etc.) in the front, rather than round at the back. It didn’t start transmitting until October 19 51, and Dad couldn’t wait that long. One or two people he knew had sets with special amplifiers that could sometimes get pictures from Sutton Coldfield, the only other transmitter apart from Alexandra Palace in London, so he made a large ‘H’ shaped aerial to the dimensions needed, and fixed it to our chimney.

He worked out the magnetic bearing from our house to the transmitter, and using the hand-bearing compass from our boat set the aerial at the correct angle. With great excitement we turned the set on and waited for all the valves to warm up, then after gazing at a screen full of dancing dots for ages suddenly saw a collar and tie appear. And that’s all we ever saw from Sutton Coldfield – a collar and tie!

There was a H Aerial still on the chimney of our house.
When digital tv started the mrs was panicking we needed a new aerial.
Having one of them seperate digital boxes, I tried to explain we were currently watching digital along with analogue. To no avail.

One day a year or so later the picture completely went, listening to "I told you so's" from the mrs I thought the aerial had probably weathered badly and given up the ghost.
I decided to fit a new aerial in the loft with a multi room box.
I then removed the old H Aerial from the chimney and as I was pulling the coax away I realised it had completely worn through from rubbing on the gutter

Oh well, at least I could watch something else when the mrs watched crappy soaps

 

[Nidger]

The joy's of Teletext.
I remember playing this

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Would have been more interesting with Billy Bragg.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

There was a H Aerial still on the chimney of our house.

I remember the H aerials do you remember the X ones below?

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Where you were when this iconic photo was taken on Christmas Eve 1968.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

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Where you were when this iconic photo was taken on Christmas Eve 1968.

I was but was a bit young to remember it at the time i have however seen it many times since.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Restored Apollo 11 Moonwalk - Original NASA EVA Mission Video - Walking on the Moon

 

[Nidger]

My first video game

At a boot sale many years ago my son excitedly asked for £1 for a football video game :)
We got home and he rushed upstairs and unboxed the console.
Yes a whole console, not just a game
One minute after setting it up he was downstairs declaring "it's crap"

 

[Clint]

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Where you were when this iconic photo was taken on Christmas Eve 1968.

I might have either been in hospital or at home...I was born March 1968, three months premature weighing just over a pound,christened within hours of my birth...

 

[Chippy_Tea]

We had the binatone console how things have changed.

 

[Benfleet Brewery]

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Where you were when this iconic photo was taken on Christmas Eve 1968.

Tucked up in bed waiting for Santa.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Tucked up in bed waiting for Santa.

You still believed at 20?

 

[CD]

The first video game I saw was ’Ping Pong’, built into a pub table somewhere near Earl’s Court. I bought a version you had to construct yourself from a load of electronic components, a bare PCB, a plastic box and two control boxes. It produced two ‘bats’ which were short vertical lines each player could move up and down the TV screen, and you could adjust the speed the ball went. I think it is still in our attic, but it takes someone braver than me to go up there now. The year after that Space Invaders appeared, and there was an Arcade in London full of the same machines and packed out with punters playing them.

 

[Benfleet Brewery]

You still believed at 20?

 

[Chippy_Tea]

A form of torture.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Remember when cars didn't have computers and you could fix them yourself.