Ignacio to Technology@lemmy.ml • 11 months agoThe buttons on Zenith’s original ‘clicker’ remote were a mechanical marvelwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up1136cross-posted to: theandrocollection@lemm.eeretrotechnology@lemmy.catechnology@lemmy.worldtechnews@radiation.party
arrow-up1136external-linkThe buttons on Zenith’s original ‘clicker’ remote were a mechanical marvelwww.theverge.comIgnacio to Technology@lemmy.ml • 11 months agomessage-square25fedilinkcross-posted to: theandrocollection@lemm.eeretrotechnology@lemmy.catechnology@lemmy.worldtechnews@radiation.party
minus-square@MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.comlinkfedilink5•11 months agoOur first tv with a remote control that wasn’t me or my sibling using small vise grip on channel knob had a telephone included in the tv. Like this was in 1982 so not a modem … just a tv with a land line phone built in that you have to use the remote to make or receive a call.
minus-square@SOB_Van_Owen@lemm.eelinkfedilink5•11 months agoYes! Those channel knobs were so easily broken. I thought we were the only ones turning channels with pair of vice-grips clamped on the nub.
Our first tv with a remote control that wasn’t me or my sibling using small vise grip on channel knob had a telephone included in the tv.
Like this was in 1982 so not a modem … just a tv with a land line phone built in that you have to use the remote to make or receive a call.
Yes! Those channel knobs were so easily broken. I thought we were the only ones turning channels with pair of vice-grips clamped on the nub.