Image I am this many years old.
Are you too young to remember these?
Submitted 2 months ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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lemmy_at_em@lemmy.world 2 months ago
KC_Royalz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I am this old as well but there’s a reason I always have a screwdriver handy
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh ye with a weak thumbnail!
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I have that exact model with my 2600!
crumbles into dust
blackbeans@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I modified my 2600 to have compositie output instead. It also slightly improves the video quality
Polisheocket@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
My brother/sister thank you, that takes me back. Had the og Nintendo going through that
nickiwest@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I feel simultaneously seen and called out.
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Before my time but I did run across these as a kid. Even played a few games, too.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Came here to post this.
DudleyMason@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Came here to say the same
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2 months 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 2 months ago
What channel would you use? I always used channel three and swore channel four gave a worse signal.
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
This was the only thing station included up till and including the fucking Jaguar.
DmMacniel@feddit.org 2 months 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 2 months ago
KingGordon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This guy olds.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This. This is how old. OP needs to get off my lawn.
mrmisses@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There it is!
mastertigurius@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
Same. Except Atari, and Nintendo too
banazir@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Spectravideo and NES for me.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
kboos1@lemmy.world 2 months ago
But did you have separate VHF and UHF connectors on the back?
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I believe there was a toggle switch on set controls (no remote).
Dultas@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Separate nobs for UHF and VHF as well.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
Whoa… Not flashing 12:00, check out Linus Torvalds here.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 2 months ago
This is why I have chips out of my shins.
73rdnemesio@infosec.pub 2 months ago
I miss my waterbed
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I miss your waterbed too.
jaaake@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I once signed an apartment rental agreement that had a waterbed addendum, specifically banning their usage.
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Weird. Me too and I was just thinking about that this morning.
Bixcut@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Pretty sure I had that exact water bed frame
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 months ago
How did everyone have this exact bed‽
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 months ago
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 months ago
mobyduck648@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
AlfalFaFail@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
JCN9000@feddit.it 2 months 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 2 months ago
Rooster326@programming.dev 2 months ago
It’s wild that we absolutely needed 2 cables for Audio but that one ought to do for Video.
Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I am SCART old
DementedSociety@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m quite a bit older than those
darthelmet@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
You are definitely underestimating the average age of a Lemmy user
drath@lemmy.drath.ru 2 months ago
Who doesn’t know RCA? That’s left, right, and sub!
Signtist@bookwyr.me 2 months 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 2 months ago
Yellow is video. White is left channel audio. Red is right channel audio.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 months ago
I’m in my 20s and regularly did this as a child.
TeaWithDani@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Wow, stereo TV, fancy.
shortypig@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Just used one a couple days ago.
fubarx@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Reminds me, I should go through my old box of DVDs and do some cleaning.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hehehe, mismatched color ports go bzzzzzzzzzzzz
CannedCairn@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Older
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 months ago
still have some in a bag in my scrap catcher drawer
vrek@programming.dev 2 months ago
I’m “turn to channel 3” old…
9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You could feel the static charge shift when changing channels
vrek@programming.dev 2 months ago
Yeah which explains my hair in those days
will@piefed.zip 2 months ago
Image
vrek@programming.dev 2 months ago
Yeah but I had a knock off brans
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
We forget how much TV was boring AF.
modus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They still do if you use an antenna.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Unless you were in Cleveland…then it was Channel 4.
vrek@programming.dev 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
But I just got comfortable!
vrek@programming.dev 2 months ago
Just be happy you don’t have to move the rabbit ears around till I get a good image
tresspass@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
The real age here is the “turn” part of the comment.
vrek@programming.dev 2 months ago
Wait current tvs don’t have a channel knob?
DrPop@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sometimes I used channel 4 if the signal wasn’t working. Coaxials were shitty.
vrek@programming.dev 2 months ago
Which is worse? Coaxials or Co workers?