Who remembers and used.

[An Ankoù]

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This is the test card I remember:

It seemed to stay there for hours before "Watch with Mother". That seems a long time ago now. I imagine there was still decent beer about in those days and I was too young to appreciate it. Damn. Foiled again!

 

[Leon103]

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These are still around. Found them at mates house the other day, I am sure hers had three beads though.

 

[An Ankoù]

Anybody remember these?

 

[Leon103]

Anybody remember these?
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Yes, had some yesterday.

 

[DavidHatton]

Black and White TV with no remote not that you needed one there were only two channels in 1960, BBC and ITV, BBC2 arrived in 1964.


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When I was a young un, used to turn my 4 channel tv over with a pool cue, naturally from bed perfect length if you just bent forward about a foot.

 

[dwhite60]

Some years ago the teenage daughter of a friend of ours needed to make a phone call and couldn't find the handset for their cordless phone.

In her frustration she told her parents, "Someone needs to make a phone with, like, a cord that connects the handset to the base unit so you can't lose it". Parents just smiled.

 

[DavidDetroit]

Anybody remember these?

What are they? Flying saucers? Fancy soap? Candy? Colorful ravioli?

 

[DavidDetroit]

When I was a young un, used to turn my 4 channel tv

When we got married, our TV was black and white and probably 10". Cable and color TV was for rich people back then.

 

[Gerryjo]

Here’s another
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Still use one for the bike an odd time...

 

[Gerryjo]

They called him the knocker upper in our area but I often wondered who got him up to knock everybody else up?

Now that's a title that could be misconstrued...

 

[Gerryjo]

Those pay phones...allegedly,if a 2p was banged hard into the 10p slot you got 10p worth of call for 2p. Also a piece of banding (the strip used to secure stuff to pallets)was pushed into the money slot it let a call be made..allegedly.Just some things I was told by some much older,naughtier boys who I don't know what their names was.

There was a similar set up for slot/poker machines but you wrap aluminium foil around the 10p and it clocked up 50p or you would have 50p with a piece of light fishing gut through a drilled hole a kept plunging and it would keep knocking up the credits so I've been told....

 

[Gerryjo]

Some years ago the teenage daughter of a friend of ours needed to make a phone call and couldn't find the handset for their cordless phone.

In her frustration she told her parents, "Someone needs to make a phone with, like, a cord that connects the handset to the base unit so you can't lose it". Parents just smiled.

I mind our first phone was a dial up handset with a lock to stop us from using it though they didn't know about switch tapping the number sequence and that raised an eyebrow when the bill came in...

 

[Gerryjo]

Chatting about phones there was the speaking clock.
https://telephonesuk.org.uk/speaking-clock/

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Who remembers the sqarial.

 

[Stevieboy]

Hours of fun recording the hit parade.........and your farts.

 

[OldPeculiar]

Who remembers...........Parents buying a lock for the analogue telephone? as using the darn thing was really expensive and couldn't be used willy nilly...therefore it would be locked!. imagine in an emergency? 'i can't find the key!!'

 

[Sorcerers Apprentice]

You could dial 0s and 9s and 'tap' the other numbers on the buttons in the handset cradle for free calls

 

[Sorcerers Apprentice]

 

[chopps]

Who remembers the sqarial.

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I have a squarial and BSB receiver in the loft.
Will be worth some money one day !

 

[Clint]

I have a squarial and BSB receiver in the loft.
Will be worth some money one day !

It's picking THAT day though.