Ready Player One -
Ernest Cline wants you to remember the 80s.
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Friday, 27 April 2018
quote [ The quickly forgotten phenomenon of scrambled television stations that ran over the air on UHF signals. Not everyone had cable TV at first. ]
When UHF was cutting-edge, the days when there was no rewind
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knumbknutz said @ 1:17am GMT on 27th Apr
[Score:1 Underrated]
The good old days when the knob would bust off the TV set and you had to change the channel with a pair of needle nose pliers. And then there was wrapping tin foil around the antenna to make the picture come in better (it changed the capacitive reactance.)
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arrowhen said[1] @ 2:27am GMT on 27th Apr
[Score:1 Funsightful]
Sometimes the tinfoil wouldn't be enough and you'd only get decent reception if you stood in one particular spot in the middle of the room.
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Ankylosaur said @ 1:47am GMT on 27th Apr
[Score:1 Informative]
I remember in the '80s when I discovered that unencrypted cellphone calls were transmitted on a UHF channel that could be picked by turning the separate UHF dial on my tv all the way to the end (ch 72?)
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zarathustra said @ 12:57am GMT on 27th Apr
Ah, back in the day where you had to mess with horizontal hold to see some porn that wasn't still pictures.
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yogi said @ 1:30am GMT on 27th Apr
Yeah, I remember UHF. New York based for us in Princeton, NJ. I think UHF mighta had Channel 13, which had interesting stuff.
And, that may have been Channel 9, the public broadcasting station, which had some interesting stuff. I did see an interview with Jack Kerouac on 9 or 13. I think he mighta been drunk, too.... |
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mechanical contrivance said @ 3:04pm GMT on 28th Apr
I just knew that U13 was the one with cartoons and that's all I cared about.
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