Ignacio@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.ml · 1 year agoThe buttons on Zenith’s original ‘clicker’ remote were a mechanical marvelwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up1261arrow-down15cross-posted to: todayilearned@lemmit.onlinetheandrocollection@lemm.eeretrotechnology@lemmy.catechnology@lemmy.worldtechnews@radiation.party
arrow-up1256arrow-down1external-linkThe buttons on Zenith’s original ‘clicker’ remote were a mechanical marvelwww.theverge.comIgnacio@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.ml · 1 year agomessage-square26fedilinkcross-posted to: todayilearned@lemmit.onlinetheandrocollection@lemm.eeretrotechnology@lemmy.catechnology@lemmy.worldtechnews@radiation.party
minus-squareMonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 year agoOur 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.
minus-squareSOB_Van_Owen@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 year agoYes! 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.
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.