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Thursday, May 10, 2012

I hated this as a kid but please stand by


I couldn't imagine anything worse at 11 years old than grabbing my parents' brown, push-button Jerrold channel changer box from my sister's grubby hands to switch the channel from TVOntario to CFTO to watch MacGuyver, only to be greeted with the stupid test screen from a US-feed that wasn't working. Anyhoo, Blogger is giving me issues and as I write, it has taken almost 12 attempts today to write this post to let you know there are technical difficulties. I'll try this again tomorrow.

5 comments:

Skin Man said...

I remember that "remote", my parents had one as well!

Peter Seelert said...

LOL Oh, Cindy, you’re soooooooo young! This is a test pattern: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:RCA_Indian_Head_test_pattern.JPG. And you had to get up off the couch to change channels via the rotary selector, after which you adjusted the rabbit ears, and if the horizontal or vertical hold weren’t quite right, you reached around the back of the TV to fiddle with the controls. Yup, I’m a dinosaur!

C.J. Smith said...

I still can't post!!!!

ExGOnowTTC said...

Mad props to Beta players everywhere!!

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