Comment on Are you too young to remember these?

DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Whoa… Not flashing 12:00, check out Linus Torvalds here.

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  • DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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.

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    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Everything back then weighed 80-100lbs.

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      • Dultas@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Except tvs, they weighed even more.

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• bstix@feddit.dk ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  My parents had a b&w TV into the mid 80s.

  When they got a colour TV it also coincided with getting a Commodore 64, so naturally they suggested using the old TV for the computer.

  Funny thing is that the C64 colour palette was prepared for this. The 16 colours weren’t just random picks on the colour wheel, they also functioned as 4 different shades when shown on b&w.

  Shortly after we did get the proper monitor but it still had a switch so you could still check how the your graphics looked in b&w.

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