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The all new, revised and easier quiz! (mod note posts 1 and 2042)
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Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,172 Mod ✭✭✭✭
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Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,172 Mod ✭✭✭✭ Join Date:Posts: 77451
All right, Rube can have it, so.
"Lazy bones" was the name of the first remote control for TV sets; it was made by the Zenith Radio Corporation in 1950, and it was connected to the TV set via a wire.
The first wireless remote control, called "Flashmatic", was developed by Eugene Polley in 1955.
We didn't get our first remote controlled TV until the early 1990s, until then we had an old black and white TV that had "valves" that took 5 minutes to warm up, had 6 buttons that looked like cigarettes and had to be pressed hard to change the channel.0 -
We didn't get our first remote controlled TV until the early 1990s, until then we had an old black and white TV that had "valves" that took 5 minutes to warm up, had 6 buttons that looked like cigarettes and had to be pressed hard to change the channel.
Same here, 1992 and ours had no buttons, just a dial to be tuned every time you changed channel. We only got a remote control colour because the other one was taken in a burglary. He did us a favour that day 0 -
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Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »Same here, 1992 and ours had no buttons, just a dial to be tuned every time you changed channel. We only got a remote control colour because the other one was taken in a burglary. He did us a favour that day
Reminds me of Woody Allen's story. He was burgled, but instead of taking stuff the burglars left stuff. It seems they burgled a row of apartments and when they got to Allen's place they were startled by something or someone, and fled leaving all their ill-gotten gains with Woody.0 -
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On ours, (not so primitive as yours, it had colour), if you pressed two of the buttons in together you could get a 7'th channeluntil then we had an old black and white TV that had "valves" that took 5 minutes to warm up, had 6 buttons that looked like cigarettes and had to be pressed hard to change the channel.
The first remote control we had was a pointy ended brush handle. 0 -
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Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,172 Mod ✭✭✭✭ Join Date:Posts: 77451
Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »Only because some mentioned them being the same age, but not sure if born 6th July, although the year would be right; two going fellas named George W Bush and Sylvester Stallone?
As an aside, I shared my birth date with the late Geoffrey Hughes who played Onslow in Keeping Up Appearance and Eddie Yeats in Coronation Street.
Awh, noice! :cool:
Autumn Harsh Cloud wins again. 0 -
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