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I think my equivalent at that age would have been going to a friend's house to watch their newly acquired colour TV instead of our B/W one.
Before that, listening to the radio.
Color radio was a big deal, to be fair.
I think I listened to one of those at a party once
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After all, it was the fashion of the time.
It was? Oh why didn't anyone tell me I looked like an idiot
There’s a motel near where my mom lives that only recently updated their sign from “colour TV” to “High Def TV”
I remember the good old days when my friend would come over and we'd turn on my black and white TV, and change it to channel 3 so that we could play a "doubles tennis" version of pong on the little pong console we owned.
Now, this may cause you to exclaim, "How fucking old is this guy?" But what you may not know is that my parents rarely threw old electronics away. That could have happened maybe as late as the mid 90s.
I have a tube TV, a tape recorder and a gramophone literally in my room. Living in grandparents' old house at the moment. Super cool
How fucking old are you?
Normal amount.
Older than my teeth, younger than my asshole
We didn't get a color TV till about 1977. My mom didn't like the colors on the earlier TVs, but dad finally convinced her when she saw a Sony TV.
I had a Panasonic crystal clear b&w tv until 2004... I loved that TV.
I watched most of star trek in black and white with a high pitched whine only I could hear
I've got a portable b&w TV that I used until they shut down the analog transmitters. It has a really good tuner that would pick up lots of channels with the built in antenna. The digital transmitters are much weaker. I can't receive a single one with an indoor antenna.
Going to the neighbour’s house to see Ceefax for the first time.
We had color TV and it picked up 2 channels. One out picked up really well, one decent and one if you turned the antenna just right and the weather was favorable but you'd lose the other two.