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[-] beemikeoak@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 3 days ago

This is AI trying to figure out who the old fucks are. I remember watching these bears in black and white TV. You had to wait a few seconds for the vacuum tubes to heat up. If you didn't like it you could clack clack the top knob to one of 13 different channels.

[-] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago

I was jealous of fancy city folks with their 13 channels all showing essentially the same thing. I only had 3 channels essentially showing the same thing.

[-] beemikeoak@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 3 days ago

Same here, I forgot about that. That's right, you can go to channel, 2, 6, 12. Everything else was static...which you could watch if you want to.

[-] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago

Yes. The thirteen positions on the dial seemed to be the product of rampant optimism.

But I imagine some lucky city kid had several additional watching options.

[-] beemikeoak@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 3 days ago

Wasn't there a third knob for more channels? I remember having an old green screen that had a double knob on it for that. I don't remember the number of channels possible though.

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