Using two VCRs to edit a video project for English class.
Bullshit they could work on channel 4 too; the NES and the SNES both had a switch in the back for that, I assume the Genesis and TurboGrafx16 did too
Let me just call someone if they're still at home on this payphone to look it up in the encyclopedia that was printed 20 years ago
I still dream in black and white.
Channel 3 or 4 I believe. They're set such that woukd allow you to choose if one or the other was selected for something like a vcr. This was the precursor to different inputs on tvs.
I had a couple of magazine CDs that I got from a trial subscription.
https://archive.org/details/launchcdmagazine
AOL zines were pretty neat.
Researching for essays was annoying because you had to actually leave your house and go to a library to get books. (But libraries are fun for personal reading.)
"You have mail"
The top dial on the TV had the VHF (lower number) stations. The bottom had the UHF( higher number) stations. In spite of all those channels being available, many places only had three, maybe four that had a station in range to be received intelligibly.
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