There is a generation that has not grown up with .......

Capt'n Midnight · 26-11-2020 11:48PM

L1011 wrote: »

A prop - while detecting flyback on CRT TVs is in theory possible, they did not do so in the vans - there was absolutely no way they could tell it was coming from a specific house; and the second home computer monitors started they were goosed anyway as they aren't licenced.

The RTE van was fake,

But Van Eck phreaking is real.

CRT computer monitors ran at 60Hz/72Hz/75Hz or higher not the 50Hz that TV's used. So a van could detect the TV 15.625 kHz flyback even with CRT's in the background.

And the colour crystals in our TV's ran at 4.43361875Mhz ± 50ppm so there's that too.

<yawn>

We used to stare at vacuum tubes that emitted x-rays, and could electrocute you if you picked up one and implode and take the face off you with flying glass if you dropped it.

branie2 · 27-11-2020 12:47PM

The original Den

CoBo55 · 27-11-2020 12:56PM

I remember a friend's mother had an ancient black and white TV that had two buttons 405 and 625 they had it on 405, I told her that 625 would give a better picture. You'd think I was priming the hydrogen bomb she was that nervous about me pressing the button... What will the husband say when he comes home etc.. we pressed it anyway, there was a marginal improvement, we were so disappointed.

filbert the fox · 27-11-2020 01:33PM

CoBo55 wrote: »

I remember a friend's mother had an ancient black and white TV that had two buttons 405 and 625 they had it on 405, I told her that 625 would give a better picture. You'd think I was priming the hydrogen bomb she was that nervous about me pressing the button... What will the husband say when he comes home etc.. we pressed it anyway, there was a marginal improvement, we were so disappointed.

In the Summer the piped tv would constitute a series of horizontal interference lines which would be explained away as sure it's the Summer!

dresden8 · 27-11-2020 01:46PM

MikeOxsgreen wrote: »

Mastitis and Scour ads on TV

And liverfluke.

Not to mention sarcoptic mange mites. Us city boys used to know the ways of them countryfolk

branie2 · 27-11-2020 03:46PM

Garda Patrol

RandomViewer · 27-11-2020 05:41PM

CoBo55 wrote: »

I remember a friend's mother had an ancient black and white TV that had two buttons 405 and 625 they had it on 405, I told her that 625 would give a better picture. You'd think I was priming the hydrogen bomb she was that nervous about me pressing the button... What will the husband say when he comes home etc.. we pressed it anyway, there was a marginal improvement, we were so disappointed.

405 was RTE and UTV, 625 was BBC, you needed 2 aerials and a little junction switch to jump between them, guessing your telly had that built in

Ger Roe · 27-11-2020 05:44PM

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

The RTE van was fake,

But Van Eck phreaking is real.

CRT computer monitors ran at 60Hz/72Hz/75Hz or higher not the 50Hz that TV's used. So a van could detect the TV 15.625 kHz flyback even with CRT's in the background.

And the colour crystals in our TV's ran at 4.43361875Mhz ± 50ppm so there's that too.

<yawn>

We used to stare at vacuum tubes that emitted x-rays, and could electrocute you if you picked up one and implode and take the face off you with flying glass if you dropped it.

It wasn't an RTE Van. The P&T (department of post and telegraphs) had the responsibility for putting the fear of God into people with strange looking vans.

branie2 · 27-11-2020 06:00PM

Corporal punishment in school

CoBo55 · 27-11-2020 06:08PM

RandomViewer wrote: »

405 was RTE and UTV, 625 was BBC, you needed 2 aerials and a little junction switch to jump between them, guessing your telly had that built in

Jesus I haven't a clue tbh. There was only rte at that time.

For Forks Sake · 27-11-2020 06:31PM

foxy farmer wrote: »

We weren't allowed to hear Gerry Adams speaking in his own voice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxpYW_w5pgo

whisky_galore · 27-11-2020 06:44PM

branie2 wrote: »

Garda Patrol

Appeals for assistance with IRA armed bank robberies interspersed with reports of stolen cow boxes.
Simpler times.

28-11-2020 12:48PM

Not sure if it’s been mentioned, but cooking comes to mind in a way. 20-30+ years ago if you wanted food & didn’t wanna cook there was a high likelihood you we’re gonna be hungry. Now it’s grand just order on just eat with the iPad haha. Same with kids, I rarely see toys anymore like Mr. Frosty or the likes.

bodhrandude · 28-11-2020 04:55PM

Anyone remember RTE's version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire.

28-11-2020 05:25PM

bodhrandude wrote: »

Anyone remember RTE's version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire.

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Jousting! Remember that f*ck up?

28-11-2020 05:29PM

The definition of jousting was a question on the Irish Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

The guy didn't know, did a 50/50 and then phoned a friend. Mounted combat was one of the options, can't remember the other.

The friend paused for around 15 seconds and said 'I think the answer is jousting'.

The contestant and Gay Byrne looked at each other in horror before shouting 'No! Jousting is what we are asking about'. The friend then said he didn't know. The guy went for mounted combat in the end but wasted two lifelines in the process.

CoBo55 · 28-11-2020 06:12PM

mikemac2 wrote: »

We weren't rich at all but we were one of the first in the area to have a VCR

Mitsubishi was the brand and it cost a large part of a working mans weekly wage. Big money at the time. Years later you could get a DVD player for under 50 euro. So many buttons and dials and options for "tracking" on this VCR when most people had no idea how these worked.

Our club won the county final and our VCR visited a few homes so neighbours could watch a taped replay in their homes.

Was it the model with the remote on a cable? We got a VCR in the early 80's that had a proper remote, the rented telly was still a, nearest one to the button jobbie...

the purple tin · 28-11-2020 06:13PM

mikemac2 wrote: »

We weren't rich at all but we were one of the first in the area to have a VCR

Mitsubishi was the brand and it cost a large part of a working mans weekly wage. Big money at the time. Years later you could get a DVD player for under 50 euro. So many buttons and dials and options for "tracking" on this VCR when most people had no idea how these worked.

Our club won the county final and our VCR visited a few homes so neighbours could watch a taped replay in their homes.

The ad that used to be on before the film about pirate videos. Your man tryng to return his dodgy copy of Trainspotting to the cockney geezah on the market stall. 'That's your tracking mate, trackin's very tricky innit

'.

Ger Roe · 29-11-2020 09:16AM

foxy farmer wrote: »

We weren't allowed to hear Gerry Adams speaking in his own voice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdf4xOdas1g

Another one from that era - having news flash announcements pop up on UTV at night time, asking shop owners on certain Belfast streets to return to their premises because 'incendiary devices' were going off.

Conway635 · 29-11-2020 09:26AM

Ger Roe wrote: »

Another one from that era - having news flash announcements pop up on UTV at night time, asking shop owners on certain Belfast streets to return to their premises because 'incendiary devices' were going off.

Remember that well Ger. And on BBC also.

I was a huge Dr. Who fan as a kid, and almost every other episode would be interrupted at some point, the sound would be turned off and a notice put on the screen (with the programme continuing in the background) asking shopkeepers to return to check their premises. I missed a great many crucial Jon pertwee era scenes that way!!

C635

angel eyes 2012 · 29-11-2020 09:59AM

Conway635 wrote: »

Remember that well Ger. And on BBC also.

I was a huge Dr. Who fan as a kid, and almost every other episode would be interrupted at some point, the sound would be turned off and a notice put on the screen (with the programme continuing in the background) asking shopkeepers to return to check their premises. I missed a great many crucial Jon pertwee era scenes that way!!

C635

We had Chitty Chitty Bang Bang recorded from a BBC Northern Ireland airing of the film.

During the part when the scary child catcher was introduced, a warning came over the screen with a booming voice asking key holders to return to check their premises in Belfast city centre, while in the background the child catcher continued his rampage through the streets of a Bavarian town.

As a child growing up in Dublin and largely removed from the problems in NI, I had no idea what was going on.

mikemac2 · 29-11-2020 03:04PM

101 News
150 lottery
220 Football
221 Latest football scores. Refresh, refresh! This took either 60 seconds or 120 seconds, I forget

240 GAA

170 TV listings
183 Movies tonight

There was even a jokes page that gave you the beginning and then you push a button to refresh for the punchline.

Good times :pac:

Right up until the end of Aertel my parents checked lottery on Aertel. I did use it for TV listings too, very useful

Ceefax had vastly more content than Aertel but alas we never had those British Channels

mikemac2 · 29-11-2020 03:10PM

smurf492 wrote: »

Buttered popcorn at the cinema...

Small town cinemas demanding to open your bag and search you for contraband sweets and drinks. In fact sometimes they didn't even offer this option and instead insisted you put their bag in their lockerroom.

When I moved to Dublin my first time in Cineworld I opened my bag to the chap at the escalator ready for inspection. He didn't check at all, just reviewed my ticket and let me go

In Dublin you do not get searched going to the cinema?

This to me was new and bizarre.

The J Stands for Jay · 29-11-2020 04:11PM

mikemac2 wrote: »

101 News
150 lottery
220 Football
221 Latest football scores. Refresh, refresh! This took either 60 seconds or 120 seconds, I forget

240 GAA

170 TV listings
183 Movies tonight

There was even a jokes page that gave you the beginning and then you push a button to refresh for the punchline.

Good times :pac:

Right up until the end of Aertel my parents checked lottery on Aertel. I did use it for TV listings too, very useful

Ceefax had vastly more content than Aertel but alas we never had those British Channels

Was 555 now and next TV listings?

Airyfairy12 · 29-11-2020 05:18PM

Smoking indoors. I was about 15 when this got banned, used to go into the shopping center and go to a corner to have a smoke with my friends at a spot where we wouldnt be seen by any adults that might know us or our parents. Going to a cafe in town, sitting in for chips and then smoking a load of fags. Cant imagine doing anything like that now, looking back its crazy how that was ever legal?

Also, Teletext, it was like an old school internet.

Just remembered head shops! being able to walk into a shop and buy drugs legally because they had ' bath bomb' printed on the back, even though it was well known they wearnt bath bombs but couldnt be sold unless that was printed on them.

AndrewJRenko · 29-11-2020 05:29PM

bodhrandude wrote: »

Anyone remember RTE's version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire.

We were in the audience for the recording, around 2001 or 2002 I think. The young hairdresser lady really shouldn't have been going for a quiz show. I think Gay was very generous in getting her to the €1k.

branie2 · 29-11-2020 05:31PM

Special K ads with the women in the white swimsuits

branie2 · 29-11-2020 08:26PM

bodhrandude wrote: »

Anyone remember RTE's version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire.

One of the contestsants took a very long time near the end of her turn in trying to decide her answer; I was in college at the time, and my three flatmates were shouting at the screen to get her to make up her mind.

the purple tin · 29-11-2020 08:34PM

bodhrandude wrote: »

Anyone remember RTE's version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire.

When we changed from punt to euro the crafty gits kept the prizes at the same amount so you would actually be winning less money, and it saved them a chunk of change.

Airyfairy12 · 29-11-2020 08:38PM

the purple tin wrote: »

When we changed from punt to euro the crafty gits kept the prizes at the same amount so you would actually be winning less money, and it saved them a chunk of change.

Every retailer and service in Ireland did the very same or put up the costs, RTE jumped on that bandwagon.
Shortly after the change over Ireland become known as rip off Ireland.

There is a generation that has not grown up with .......

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