Image I am this many years old.
Are you too young to remember these?
Submitted 1 month ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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lemmy_at_em@lemmy.world 1 month ago
KC_Royalz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I am this old as well but there’s a reason I always have a screwdriver handy
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oh ye with a weak thumbnail!
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I have that exact model with my 2600!
crumbles into dust
blackbeans@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I modified my 2600 to have compositie output instead. It also slightly improves the video quality
Polisheocket@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
My brother/sister thank you, that takes me back. Had the og Nintendo going through that
nickiwest@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I feel simultaneously seen and called out.
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Before my time but I did run across these as a kid. Even played a few games, too.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Came here to post this.
DudleyMason@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Came here to say the same
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Jeez. You old! Damn, me too. Nowadays such a device would be 79,99 ans surely sold separately. Without cables of course.
As far as I remember that thing came with the 2600, no?
Tiger666@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
What channel would you use? I always used channel three and swore channel four gave a worse signal.
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Beat me to it. Life got really good when I could upgrade from the small kitchen B/W set to a color one.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 month ago
This was the only thing station included up till and including the fucking Jaguar.
DmMacniel@feddit.org 1 month ago
dude… i hooked up my sega master system II to my TV up the Antenna port with that little switch box.
Triumph@fedia.io 1 month ago
KingGordon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This guy olds.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This. This is how old. OP needs to get off my lawn.
mrmisses@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There it is!
mastertigurius@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
mrmisses@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Same. Except Atari, and Nintendo too
banazir@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Spectravideo and NES for me.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
kboos1@lemmy.world 1 month ago
But did you have separate VHF and UHF connectors on the back?
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I believe there was a toggle switch on set controls (no remote).
Dultas@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Separate nobs for UHF and VHF as well.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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. (Early 70s)
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Whoa… Not flashing 12:00, check out Linus Torvalds here.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
bstix@feddit.dk 1 month 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.
negativenull@piefed.world 1 month ago
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 1 month ago
This is why I have chips out of my shins.
73rdnemesio@infosec.pub 1 month ago
I miss my waterbed
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I miss your waterbed too.
jaaake@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I once signed an apartment rental agreement that had a waterbed addendum, specifically banning their usage.
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Weird. Me too and I was just thinking about that this morning.
Bixcut@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Pretty sure I had that exact water bed frame
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 month ago
How did everyone have this exact bed‽
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 1 month ago
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 month ago
mobyduck648@lemmy.world 1 month ago
A pain in the arse to drive from modern video sources is what it is! Bought a CRT recently with a thought to using it as a cool secondary monitor but HDMI to composite adaptors are all crap!
What I ended up doing was using HDMI to VGA, then VGA to composite. This let me set a proper 4:3 resolution and the picture improved a lot. What I should have done is not bother with composite at all and gone VGA to RGB to SCART as this would improve the colour a lot, but couldn’t find the adaptors for that. Not sure how widespread SCART was, might have only been a European thing but when I was a kid most TVs could either take a composite RCA input or SCART, and SCART could carry composite or RGB.
Definitely given me the bug for old TVs though, I’m going to have to write an ActivityPub to Teletext software adaptor so I can have Lemmy on a ‘90s TV or something. HackTV looks like a lot of fun as well.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
AlfalFaFail@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
JCN9000@feddit.it 1 month ago
As a boy I had to stand up and walk to the TV to switch channel pressing buttons. No remote.
red_tomato@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Rooster326@programming.dev 1 month ago
It’s wild that we absolutely needed 2 cables for Audio but that one ought to do for Video.
Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I am SCART old
DementedSociety@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oh a simpler time. When nothing needed to update, billion/trillionaires didn’t exist, and no one was trying to steal every normal of your data to rip you off and con you politically. I miss riding bikes till the street lights came on.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m quite a bit older than those
darthelmet@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I continue to be shocked to discover things that seemed very recent to me are now a decade or two old. I probably shouldn’t be, but here I am.
Jimbo@pawb.social 1 month ago
You are definitely underestimating the average age of a Lemmy user
drath@lemmy.drath.ru 1 month ago
Who doesn’t know RCA? That’s left, right, and sub!
Signtist@bookwyr.me 1 month ago
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.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yellow is video. White is left channel audio. Red is right channel audio.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 month ago
I’m in my 20s and regularly did this as a child.
TeaWithDani@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Wow, stereo TV, fancy.
shortypig@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Just used one a couple days ago.
fubarx@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Reminds me, I should go through my old box of DVDs and do some cleaning.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Hehehe, mismatched color ports go bzzzzzzzzzzzz
CannedCairn@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Older
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 month ago
still have some in a bag in my scrap catcher drawer
vrek@programming.dev 1 month ago
I’m “turn to channel 3” old…
9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You could feel the static charge shift when changing channels
vrek@programming.dev 1 month ago
Yeah which explains my hair in those days
will@piefed.zip 1 month ago
Image
vrek@programming.dev 1 month ago
Yeah but I had a knock off brans
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 month ago
TVs had channels?
I’m old enough to remember Saturday morning cartoons, but seriously, it feels like TVs don’t really have channels anymore, and instead just have thousands of shitty streaming apps.
vrek@programming.dev 1 month ago
It’s been about 20 years since I watched cable/broadcast TV in my home. But yeah way back tvs didn’t have inputs for other devices, instead you had a box which you put in between the antenna or cable signal and your device which basically over wrote channel 3(why channel 3? I have no idea) with whatever your device was out putting. So if you wanted to play Nintendo you would change to channel 3 and see Mario or metroid.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
We forget how much TV was boring AF.
modus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They still do if you use an antenna.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Unless you were in Cleveland…then it was Channel 4.
vrek@programming.dev 1 month ago
Really? Interesting. We’re there other places or other channels like that? Like if you were in England or India did they do channel 3, channel 4, or something totally different?
sik0fewl@piefed.ca 1 month ago
Was there a station that broadcast on channel 3? I remember TVs growing up often (always?) having support for both channels 3 and 4 as auxiliary inputs. Also, what happened to channels 1 and 2?
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 1 month ago
But I just got comfortable!
vrek@programming.dev 1 month ago
Just be happy you don’t have to move the rabbit ears around till I get a good image
tresspass@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m gen z but just set up tvheadend after unsubscribing from any remaining streaming services. Learning there is free tv over the air was a shock to me
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The real age here is the “turn” part of the comment.
vrek@programming.dev 1 month ago
Wait current tvs don’t have a channel knob?
DrPop@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Sometimes I used channel 4 if the signal wasn’t working. Coaxials were shitty.
vrek@programming.dev 1 month ago
Which is worse? Coaxials or Co workers?