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JC Denton Gold Member Offline Posts: 5471 Gender:	tvs from the 80s Jun 1^st, 2012 at 7:57pm i really liked the way tvs looked in the 80s they had character and a delightfully slummy feel to them they were the quintessential tv forcing everybody to switch over their tvs was the worst thing the govt has ever done (ok not really but it was bad)
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Sir Spot of Borg Gold Member Offline WE ARE BORG Posts: 26509 Australia	Re: tvs from the 80s Reply #1 - Jun 2^nd, 2012 at 7:29am Yeah I have a u-beaut digital HD one now and its all posh and flash and all. Problem is finding the space for it. SOB
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Frances Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 3577 In a Castle in the Hills Gender:	Re: tvs from the 80s Reply #2 - Jun 2^nd, 2012 at 3:19pm Go back a few more years and they are even more interesting. Here is one from 1960:
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Bobby. Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 105369 Melbourne Gender:	Re: tvs from the 80s Reply #3 - Jun 3^rd, 2012 at 4:07pm No one wants those old CRT TVs now. I left my old one on the nature strip with a sign on it saying fully working TV & no one picked it up even after more than a week.
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Frances Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 3577 In a Castle in the Hills Gender:	Re: tvs from the 80s Reply #4 - Jun 3^rd, 2012 at 7:48pm Bobby. wrote on Jun 3^rd, 2012 at 4:07pm: No one wants those old CRT TVs now. I left my old one on the nature strip with a sign on it saying fully working TV & no one picked it up even after more than a week. Same here....
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Reply #5 - Jun 3^rd, 2012 at 9:08pm

Frances wrote on Jun 2^nd, 2012 at 3:19pm:

Go back a few more years and they are even more interesting. Here is one from 1960:

http://www.tvhistory.tv/1960-Motorola-Model-23SF3.JPG

We had one exactly like that when I was a kid.

I used to sit in front of it waiting for Romper Room to come on.

That was when we used to "turn over to a different channel" LOL

I said that to a teenager recently (turn over to a different channel) and they asked me what I meant. "Turn what?"

I had to explain how we had a knob on the TV that you actually got up and walked over to and then turned. LOL

Yes, I'm old.

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Frances Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 3577 In a Castle in the Hills Gender:	Re: tvs from the 80s Reply #6 - Jun 3^rd, 2012 at 9:27pm Uncle Meat wrote on Jun 3^rd, 2012 at 9:08pm: I had to explain how we had a knob on the TV that you actually got up and walked over to and then turned. LOL Yes, I'm old. Oh dear. I can remember that too.....
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Sir Spot of Borg Gold Member Offline WE ARE BORG Posts: 26509 Australia	Re: tvs from the 80s Reply #7 - Jun 4^th, 2012 at 7:30am My dad worked for AWA back in the 70s SOB
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Bobby. Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 105369 Melbourne Gender:	Re: tvs from the 80s Reply #8 - Jun 5^th, 2012 at 9:36am Frances wrote on Jun 3^rd, 2012 at 7:48pm: Bobby. wrote on Jun 3^rd, 2012 at 4:07pm: No one wants those old CRT TVs now. I left my old one on the nature strip with a sign on it saying fully working TV & no one picked it up even after more than a week. Same here.... Yes - CRT TVs are just old rubbish now.
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Postmodern Trendoid III Gold Member Offline Posts: 10266 Gender:	Re: tvs from the 80s Reply #9 - Jun 5^th, 2012 at 9:55pm I still use my 1977 Thorn. Good as gold. Has outlasted about 4 other tvs. Here it is, the Thorn 48cm:
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muso Gold Member Offline Posts: 13151 Gladstone, Queensland Gender:	Re: tvs from the 80s Reply #10 - Jun 10^th, 2012 at 10:15pm I still have an old colour TV/ Radio/ Cassette recorder from the late 70's. The TV uses a 7 inch CRT and it will work on batteries or AC. The TV part doesn't work now, but I don't want to throw it out for sentimental reasons. One day, I'll get it working again, although it will need a digital adapter to make it work.
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Reply #11 - Aug 3^rd, 2012 at 12:57pm

Frances wrote on Jun 3^rd, 2012 at 9:27pm:

Uncle Meat wrote on Jun 3^rd, 2012 at 9:08pm:

I had to explain how we had a knob on the TV that you actually got up and walked over to and then turned. LOL

Yes, I'm old.

Oh dear. I can remember that too.....

I remember our first remote control telly, it had a remote on a long cord, and the knob would turn on the telly when you used the remote. It would not jump from channel to channel, but clunk around the dial, but we only had three channels back then anyway, 2, 7, and 9. I still loved having it, and got addicted to channel surfing at a young age, much to my dad's annoyance.
"stop pushing that bloody thing, before you break it"
I used to sit there in front of the TV at 5:59 AM, waiting for the first show of the day, my beloved cartoons, I even liked the channel 9 station ID that had a cartoon guy running down a hall switching all the lights on, to show they were ready to begin the days shows.

I still remember being p1ssed off one morning when instead of the usual programs, they just had aprinted screen saying that President Kennedy had been shot and out of respect, the mornings cartoons had been cancelled, so had nothing to watch.
I could not imagine any world leader ever being mourned like that again, they were far more naive days.

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Reply #12 - Aug 3^rd, 2012 at 2:57pm

mozzaok wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2012 at 12:57pm:

Frances wrote on Jun 3^rd, 2012 at 9:27pm:

Uncle Meat wrote on Jun 3^rd, 2012 at 9:08pm:

I had to explain how we had a knob on the TV that you actually got up and walked over to and then turned. LOL

Yes, I'm old.

Oh dear. I can remember that too.....

I remember our first remote control telly, it had a remote on a long cord, and the knob would turn on the telly when you used the remote. It would not jump from channel to channel, but clunk around the dial, but we only had three channels back then anyway, 2, 7, and 9. I still loved having it, and got addicted to channel surfing at a young age, much to my dad's annoyance.
"stop pushing that bloody thing, before you break it"
I used to sit there in front of the TV at 5:59 AM, waiting for the first show of the day, my beloved cartoons, I even liked the channel 9 station ID that had a cartoon guy running down a hall switching all the lights on, to show they were ready to begin the days shows.

I still remember being p1ssed off one morning when instead of the usual programs, they just had aprinted screen saying that President Kennedy had been shot and out of respect, the mornings cartoons had been cancelled, so had nothing to watch.
I could not imagine any world leader ever being mourned like that again, they were far more naive days.

It hasnt happened again.

11/9 was used as an excuse by a lot of ppl in australia to not do their jobs though.

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Reply #13 - Aug 3^rd, 2012 at 3:02pm

Yeah, what will they think of next!
Apparently there are rumours that the Japanese are working on a device that will allow you to speak to anyone anywhere in the world (if they have a similar device). ANd without needing to plug into anything! Just through the ether.
How mind-boggling would that be?!?!

PS.
I still miss hand-written books. We used to call them 'codex' back then. We all spoke Latin. Even old ladies could speak Latin. Not like nowadays.

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Reply #14 - Aug 14^th, 2012 at 1:42am

Bobby. wrote on Jun 3^rd, 2012 at 4:07pm:

No one wants those old CRT TVs now.
I left my old one on the nature strip with a sign on it saying fully working TV
& no one picked it up even after more than a week.

People have to be fools to not want a working TV that they can get for free. Cheesy

mozzaok wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2012 at 12:57pm:

I still remember being p1ssed off one morning when instead of the usual programs, they just had aprinted screen saying that President Kennedy had been shot and out of respect, the mornings cartoons had been cancelled, so had nothing to watch.
I could not imagine any world leader ever being mourned like that again, they were far more naive days.

Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Aug 3^rd, 2012 at 2:57pm:

It hasnt happened again.

It happened again on September 11th, 2001. A show I was watching was interrupted because of the World Trade Centre attacks. It was either 24, Star Trek Enterprise or some other really important show.

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