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Katie77:
Something else I forgot....regarding black and white tv....
I remember some friends who had a screen (like a screen you put in front of an open fire to stop the cinders flying out)....which they put in front of their black and white tv set.....it had three strips of colour.....blue at the top, red in the middle and green at the bottom, and it was supposed to give you the sense of colour on your tv shows.......(i guess it was better 'n nothin')....
Its fun remembering all this stuff.....
David In Indy:
--- Quote from: Katie77 on November 02, 2006, 04:25:07 pm ---Something else I forgot....regarding black and white tv....
I remember some friends who had a screen (like a screen you put in front of an open fire to stop the cinders flying out)....which they put in front of their black and white tv set.....it had three strips of colour.....blue at the top, red in the middle and green at the bottom, and it was supposed to give you the sense of colour on your tv shows.......(i guess it was better 'n nothin')....
Its fun remembering all this stuff.....
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I don't remember those color screens Sue, but your comment made me think of something else. Do you remember those aluminum Christmas trees? They were silver, and a spinning color wheel was placed in front of the tree so it would "change colors". The color wheel had a light in it. Everybody had those aluminum trees when I was a kid. People wouldn't be caught dead with one these days.
Katie77:
Yes I remember those trees David....but I dont think Australia got those spinning wheels that threw colour on to them...we just decorated them with electric lights, until a few unfortunate people got electrocuted, and they realized that those trees and electricity were not a safe mix.
Talking of Christmas.....remember when we only gotone present from our parents for Christmas?......nowdays, kids seem to get a room full....
Also at Christmas time, Mum used to make the boiled plum pudding, she used to wrap it in a bag of muslim and cook it in the copper.....she also used to put small silver coins in the mix, and it was our delight to find a threepence or sixpence while we were eating it...Unfortunatley, with the advent of decimal currency, the new coins were made of some other metal, and we were advised not to cook them in our puddings, so that was the end of that.
Thinking about the good ol' days is fun.......Just think....these will be the good ol' days to our grandchildren....makes you wonder what they will have in their lives then.
David In Indy:
--- Quote from: Katie77 on November 02, 2006, 09:03:39 pm ---
Thinking about the good ol' days is fun.......Just think....these will be the good ol' days to our grandchildren....makes you wonder what they will have in their lives then.
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The good ol' days to today's kids will probably be remembering life without PR's (Personal Robots), cars with steering wheels that actually travelled on the ground, taking boring vacations here on Earth, massive computers the size of a notebook, 2 dimensional television screens, some crazy, primitive thing called the "Internet", watching movies in a place called a "cinema" or "movie theatre" and purchasing something with pieces of paper and shiny metal.
2robots4u:
Katie, Nicky, Jeff: my life is flashing before my eyes :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:...I remember all of this very clearly. I think my sister still has that silver tree packed away somewhere in her garage. We were just little kids but got so excited when it was decorated; I even milked Santa for as long as I could . I think I was 11 when the gifts from "Santa" stopped coming.
My remotes are to TV, DVD, VCR, and CD player only. I've thought about getting a universal one, but they are too advanced for my feeble mind to understand...hell, I'm still trying to figure out the telephone ;D :laugh: :laugh:...Doug
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