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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/27/2011 11:16:39 PM

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Did you run them backwards for real ? Really the easy way to do it was upside down, but if you had three reels you could actually do it right side up. Then to get it to run right again was an equal pain in the ass.

You know it was much easier to just record something at 3¾ IPS on a reel to reel and put it in an 8 track tape cartridge. But no picture.

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/27/2011 11:37:34 PM

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I really liked this song, and have heard of him in reference to Shaft.
I'm feeling ancient, and I'm getting good with it. M

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/28/2011 7:07:28 AM

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OK, who remembers the when grocery stores sold TV (black and white of course) tubes and they had a test machine so you could bring yours in and see which one you had to replace?

I remember some drug stores that had tube testers.

Hey Termy, folks used to hack cable in Santa Barbara by putting a few winds of coax in a tomato paste can, and connecting it inline with the cable system. I think it was to defeat the sine wave technique. Later I heard they used a triangle wave to scramble it.

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/28/2011 7:33:49 AM

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Does anyone else remember when you got a test pattern on TV after midnight?

On any of the three channels available (four, if you had a PBS station around).

Firm

We had a blond cabinet black and white motorola tv.We would arise about 4am on saturday morning and watch the indian in the test pattern and listen to the 60 cycle hum, every couple minutes opening our parents bedroom door and asking what time does the tv come on? 6am, dont ask again or I will kill you.....we asked again, he never did, and then that instantly magic moment....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3w7w58CREY

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/28/2011 8:42:06 AM

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Does anyone else remember when you got a test pattern on TV after midnight?

On any of the three channels available (four, if you had a PBS station around).

We had a blond cabinet black and white motorola tv.We would arise about 4am on saturday morning and watch the indian in the test pattern and listen to the 60 cycle hum, every couple minutes opening our parents bedroom door and asking what time does the tv come on? 6am, dont ask again or I will kill you.....we asked again, he never did, and then that instantly magic moment....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3w7w58CREY

Damn. I remember that. And Mr Green Jeans!

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/28/2011 8:44:21 AM

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And bunny and Mr Moose and ping pong ball showers.

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/28/2011 10:24:15 AM

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Reading this, on another thread, made me feel old. I literally had a "wtf had pop-up blockers in 6th grade?" moment!

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I first started looking for information on bondage back in 6th grade after the pop-up blocker missed a porn spam and a pic of the beautiful woman tied with her hands over her head and her feet to the ground.

Then I realized MILLIONS did.......

To the porch, for a bit of herbal therapy, this old lady shall go.

hahahaha edit to add the fucking quote.....maybe the porch is not needed!

My problem was that the only person in the house who could figure out how to set the parental controls was the sixth grader. Sort of defeated the purpose, that.

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/28/2011 12:54:54 PM

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They could stop you seeing what they were looking at, I suppose.

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/28/2011 3:43:45 PM

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I saw him doing it all....

can you dig it?

You see this cat Shaft is a bad mother--
(Shut your mouth)

Ya got to learn to make sweet love to the ladies, chilluns.

Hell, I have the album. On vinyl.

My band used to cover those tunes....

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/28/2011 3:55:02 PM

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"Hey Termy, folks used to hack cable in Santa Barbara by putting a few winds of coax in a tomato paste can, and connecting it inline with the cable system. I think it was to defeat the sine wave technique."

That technique worked because post cable box it was all put out on the same channel. It was channel two here and the filter would have to be tuned precisely to the carrier frequency plus the horizontal scan rate. You couldn't do it on the raw cable because there is no effective way to retune a tomato paste can.

Did you know about the UHF antennae made from a coffee can ? They were EXTREMELY efficient, but very directional. The output was unbalanced (grounded on one end) so it had to be put to a balun because most of the TVs back then had the balanced 300 ohm for UHF, even if the VHF was the more modern 75 ohm unbalanced.

But there was no analog video scramble that I couldn't beat - one of my claims to fame. I had a scope and know how to fucking use it. BMAC changed all that, and actually is the basis for more advanced video digitalization techniques. It didn't have really good compression, but it was practically unbeatable at the time. ($11,000 for the board to do it)

I liked those days. I was never that much into movies, especially new ones. I had a five foot Advent with the silver screen and it was the only one in the country that really worked right., The picture was clear, sharp and square with no noticable misconvergence of the colors. I also had an old quadrophonic system that served up the sound based on a Marantz 4270 and it's quadradial function. Even better than what you can buy today. And it was powered with more amps........ MUCH POWER, I could shake the ground outside.

On Days of Thunder the cars came around all the speakers, when the Enterprise warped out and went behind the scene, the sound followed. It had some other cool functions, for example I could make a stereo recording of a TV show and an independent audio stereo source. I have a football game recorded off ABC (a Monday night game) that has both the TV sound and the radio sound. The Browns were kicking the Steelers ass and the announcer said "The shitsburg 25 yard line" I have that.

I have alot more on old video and damnear all of it is in hifi, which means the sound is POTENTIALLY better than CD quality.

My aspirations when it comes to this computer shit are not without reason. I have good reason and one day when I get it all figured out I will surely be a youtube star of the first magnitude. I got the last episode of MASH. So what right ? NOPE. Watch the commercials ! They will blow your mind. Buy you a new Lincoln Mark Five !

I tried to rip a bunch of shit in the last year or so, but the software sucked and it didn't work. Next.

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/28/2011 4:30:17 PM

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ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam

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ORIGINAL: FirmhandKY

FR:

Does anyone else remember when you got a test pattern on TV after midnight?

On any of the three channels available (four, if you had a PBS station around).

Firm

Even better. Remember when the early FM Rock stations went off at midnight and came back on at 6AM. (except on sat night they stayed on 24 hours then)

Everybody here had a 4WD, all the party spots were out in the sticks, and each one had a name - Volcano was a big cone shaped hill, pretty steep, but you could get X-Rock 80 out of Juarez from there. There's a house up there now.

Pancho Villa was our pistol range, we'd save up bottles till we had a truckload. It was a natural sandstone amphitheater - it's an outdoor theater and tourist attraction now, but they must have had to remove about 2 inches of broken glass from the floor of that thing, lol.

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/28/2011 6:10:49 PM

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I remember a time after the late 70's and maybe low 80's there was this thing called the "Z" channel here..there was arectangular brown box my ex's parents had (we thought...aren't they lucky) with channels...you had to press down on buttons and get the channels outside of the regular channels...ha ha

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/28/2011 8:00:22 PM

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http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/sex/a/catalog.htm

LOL , I can't believe you found that!!

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/28/2011 11:31:26 PM

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"but you could get X-Rock 80 out of Juarez from there."

Could you hook it up to the TV ? And more importanly, can you get Zrock ?

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/29/2011 2:15:40 AM

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Here's one you won't see today.

TV Repair bill

1 6GH8 ea. 3.70
1 6DW4 ea. 7.55
1 .02uf/2KV cap. ea. 9.15
Technical service time - 32.50

Total parts/mat'ls 20.50
Sales tax 1.23
Total labor/service charge 32.50
Total 54.23

There was no sales tax on labor back then.

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/29/2011 6:47:29 AM

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Our remote was a twist of the wrist in the day. We used to zip that channel selector back and forth and like every three months or so, Harold Bigelow would have to come to the house (thats right kiddies) to the house and change out the worn out channel selector slabs.

$13 dollars. And the old man went thru the roof, gonna rape and kill us all and just flipped the fuck out. He was an electrician making $0.90 an hour raising a family of 4 and a housewife, as well as our grampa that had alzheimers (but he got some railroad pension) and we never ever really lacked for anything, I think I was hauling down a nickle a week in allowance, my older sister prolly got a dime. We used to shrewdly shop for little brown paper bags of candy at Rene Lydeens corner grocery for hours figuring how to spend that nickle on Saturday afternoon.

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/29/2011 7:43:22 PM

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"but you could get X-Rock 80 out of Juarez from there."

Could you hook it up to the TV ? And more importanly, can you get Zrock ?

T^T

Nah, I just get basic cable, I'm considering getting digital however, just so I can get IFC.

X-Rock 80 was a big deal back then, all the local stations were country or easy listening - you could get the Crest out of Albuquerque on cable, great station before it went country - they played out on Steely Dan's FM, that should date it for you, it was the end of an era.

Otherwise, KOMA, Ok city wasn't too bad and you could usually get it for some reason - you can still get some midwest stations when it's overcast and the signal bounces off the clouds.

There's a pretty good alt station out of Cortez, but the mountains play hell with the signal. I just listen to NPR, Jazz and Classical, but they have a pretty good show on Saturday night, can't remember the name of it.

I don't really do oldies unless it's all I can get, I've heard all that stuff already, got most of it memorized, and there's no DJ's, it's all computers in the basement of some huge building with no windows somewhere.

Can't get anything but Ranchero between Lybrook and San Ysidro nowadays.

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/29/2011 8:38:31 PM

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I was going to tell her about rotary dial, but I was afraid she'd have to be hospitalized.

I have a rotary phone. It's always a big hit with company - they love to make phone calls on it. It's one of those heavy, black phones....last night I actually had to let the handle swing down and spin to uncoil the cord. It was great.

....sorry to say, I actually bought it at an antique store.

Bakelite phones from the 40s are very popular and collectible... I used to carry them in my shop ( I had an antiques store once upon a time)

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/29/2011 8:41:08 PM

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Does anyone else remember when you got a test pattern on TV after midnight?

On any of the three channels available (four, if you had a PBS station around).

Yes!! Ack. Let's not forget the UHF stations, too.

I kinda heard that some big cities had those, but not out in the sticks were we lived.

Does anyone remember the first time they got "cable" and "HBO"?

I was in college. We had one of those cable boxes where you could open them up, and tune in the premium channels with a small screwdriver.

For the guys ... remember when the "adult channels" where kinda-sorta visible, all twisty and stuff, but occasionally would clear up and you could see ... gasp! ... actual naked female flesh?

Firm

I grew up with cable, now before that sounds like we were far ahead of the curve, we only got 4 channels on our cable, all local channels. I grew up in the Sierras, no one was getting reception without cable.

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RE: You know you're getting old... - 6/29/2011 8:43:48 PM

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Does anyone else remember when you got a test pattern on TV after midnight?

On any of the three channels available (four, if you had a PBS station around).

Firm

We had a blond cabinet black and white motorola tv.We would arise about 4am on saturday morning and watch the indian in the test pattern and listen to the 60 cycle hum, every couple minutes opening our parents bedroom door and asking what time does the tv come on? 6am, dont ask again or I will kill you.....we asked again, he never did, and then that instantly magic moment....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3w7w58CREY

I always thought Captain Kangaroo looked creepy...

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