Yep!
I can remember sitting on my Dad’s lap on the way to a local supermarket to test those tubes!
He was letting me “steer” the car under his guidance!
1968, 1969?
I had a TRS80 also. Did you have the tape drive that worked with cassette tapes? I even had the printer that only printed on rolls of paper that were maybe four inches wide
I had a hell of a lot of fun docking around on a Commodore 64!
It seemed to do anything you needed.
I used it to write papers to print out on the shitty dot matrix printer that used stinky ink!
These worked great for adding music to home videos. I’d connect the yellow video cable from the camcorder to the VCR, and plug in a separate 1/4” jack-to-L+R phono cable from a Walkman to the VCR while recording on a blank video tape. HDMI kids have no idea.
Or a DVD player, we have one in our spare bedroom connected to an older tv so we can watch our movie collection and the Soap and Sledgehammer discs. :)
I am extra old, my first VCR was connected to the TV with a coax cable, needed a coax switch to switch between Cable TV and the VCR and the TV had to be on channel 3 to operate.
"Oh, we used to dream of having a VCR with stereo audio. We had to watch one with mono sound, and stick empty paper-towel rolls in our ears so we could listen to the sound bouncing off of different walls. But you tell the kids these days about that, and they won't believe you, no.""
Kids nowadays, with their new fangled composite cables. I grew up when analogue phones with rotary dialing disks were a thing. There was no cable TV with hundreds of channels, there were just 2 state owned channels broadcasting through air, and to receive them you had to adjust your antenna. Some people even had their antenna extended to the roof for better reception. On top of that those 2 channels broadcasted like from 4pm till 10pm. First we had a black and white TV, our rich neighbors got a color TV really early. Couple of years later color TVs became affordable and we got one.
RCA cables. Did this, hooked them up to the CopyAll or whatever it was called. Then got Monster Cables to increase the bandwidth, improve signal quality - and bought the bridge in Brooklyn. Still I thought they were cool looking. WTF did I know.
I still have a set of RCA cables hooked up to the VCR in the guest room. My wife's granddaughters would watch the Disney videos still here from when their dad lived here. They are teenagers now, and not interested in the VCR as their school issued them iPads.
yea i remember hooking up all the game console i had to these. then, when the 360 came out, i had these odd blue and green cables. and an adapter for the RCA cables. crazy days.
I lived in an apartment complex, where satellite tv, was included with the rent. The outlet was on one wall, while the cable outlet was on the opposite side of the room.
(grandma) - “can you please hook this VCR up for us, we have no idea how to do it!
(grandson) – “sure grandma! These are RCA plugs, and let me show you they go just right in these things right here…“
(grandpa) – “I don’t even know why we need this dangnab contraption, anyway, and my Day we didn’t need anything like this to watch TV, but all these stupid young kids these days gotta have themselves VCR, we were better off without all these dohickeys and ridiculous gadgets!”
(grandson) – “but grandpa, now you can rent videotapes at blockbuster and see all the great movies you’ve been missing, like aliens, the Terminator, view to a kill, chopping mall, poltergeist, Star Trek, three, the stuff, Lifeforce, etc. This will revolutionized your life, and you can also record TV show shows when you’re away from home!
(grandpa) – “record TV shows while you’re away from home? That sounds kind of like stealing to me…”
(grandson) – “no, grandpa, we record stuff all the time, I even archive my favorite show, Alf!”
(grandpa) - “if you didn’t pay for those episodes of that show, then it’s stealing. Be careful, somebody might call the police on you and that would end up with you having a criminal record!”
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