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The buttons on Zenith’s original ‘clicker’ remote were a mechanical marvel
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Our first tv with a remote control that wasn't me or my sibling using small vise grip on channel knob had a telephone included in the tv.
Like this was in 1982 so not a modem ... just a tv with a land line phone built in that you have to use the remote to make or receive a call.
Yes! Those channel knobs were so easily broken. I thought we were the only ones turning channels with pair of vice-grips clamped on the nub.