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Yall had color static? I only remember seeing black and white static.
You could get color if a weak signal drifted in (and had a color TV), but generally it was black and white. OP needs to take that pixelated mess back and fix it.
I had a tv that output static with the colors when signal was missing, it did NOT make the fuzz sound tho.
This was the early 90s
I think early digital may have done that, but not analog.
Digital is either on or off. You need analog to get static.
Right, it was simulated static, instead of the blue screen.
OP was playing with magnets
Gibson talks about this in his prologue, and other anachronisms in Neuromancer (specifically his lack of imagination regarding phones)—he was envisioning the dull grey of a dead tv signal of his childhood, not the crazy black and white static of the late 20th and early 21st century; but the sentiment tracks even though he probably wasn’t event thinking that about any of the implications, given his displeasure of even being lumped in with cyberpunk as a genre (which I think is really confoundedly stupid on his part).
We had a really old tv in my basement when I was young. If you messed with the hue knob while on a non existent channel you could get a lot more colorful static