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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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We still had valves in the teles when I were a lad, still had VHF/405 lines black and white sets too 
I remember the first teletext decoder - it was a bloody big box, bigger than a VCR which stood on top of the TV set and was connected by a bloody long wire with a 'remote control' on the end of it
Oh and good old Testcard 'F' complete with the little girl and her clown playing noughts and crosses  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"and if you had a telly there were only 3 channels
3? I can just about remember when it was only BBC and can definately remember when it was only 2!!!!"
Must have knocked a few years off your age then |
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By *andKCouple
over a year ago
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"Nope born in 1954 ITV came in 1959 and BBC 2 in 1963
Oops I thought it was 1955  "
you could be right but we certainly didn't have a telly that could get both channels, I remember getting a telly with a choice of channels as a 'present' when my brother was born in 1959 |
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By *andKCouple
over a year ago
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"Nope born in 1954 ITV came in 1959 and BBC 2 in 1963
Oops I thought it was 1955
you could be right but we certainly didn't have a telly that could get both channels, I remember getting a telly with a choice of channels as a 'present' when my brother was born in 1959 "
Just looked it up - you are definately right first independent telivision broadcast in the UK September 22 1955 |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I can remember getting 10p to buy a bag of 'mixture' and was bloody thankful for that lol my kids look at me stupid if I give them just a quid now (although I do believe £1 won't get much booze or fags lol - my youngest is 15!) |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Who can remember the 'Trade Test Transmissions' that were run from time to time on BBC2 ?
I think it was around 1969 when they were rolling out the colour service.
The one that I can remember was a short documentry type thing all about the building Zambezee Dam and the hydro electric power station.
There were a couple of other but I can't remember what they were about |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"To exercise you ran around the streets playing "it" or riding your bike, not plugging in your Wii Fit!  "
Yeah I had a blue Chopper bike and one of those cheap Japanese transistor radios (Remember the ones - airband, short wave, long wave, medium wave, VHF - the bloody works) crossbar next to the gearstick. I used to fly around all day and every day on that bike listening to the Radio One Roadshow, Kid Jenson, Emperor Rosco and everything else that was on Radio One at the time .... good times, not a care in the world  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"mobile phones - were kinda unheard of !!! lol... - and asking someone if they had change so you only had to put 5p into the fone-box... instead of 10p.."
Blimey when is the last time you used a phone box as they have been 20p for years now |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"To exercise you ran around the streets playing "it" or riding your bike, not plugging in your Wii Fit!
Yeah I had a blue Chopper bike and one of those cheap Japanese transistor radios (Remember the ones - airband, short wave, long wave, medium wave, VHF - the bloody works) crossbar next to the gearstick. I used to fly around all day and every day on that bike listening to the Radio One Roadshow, Kid Jenson, Emperor Rosco and everything else that was on Radio One at the time .... good times, not a care in the world "
My mate had a digital watch fro Texas instruments that you could only see when you pressed a button............he only has one arm.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"My mate had a digital watch fro Texas instruments that you could only see when you pressed a button............he only has one arm. "
You gotta hand it to him! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"My mate had a digital watch fro Texas instruments that you could only see when you pressed a button............he only has one arm.
You gotta hand it to him! "
You should see the size of the fish he says he catches. |
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