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Back in the saddle again
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Central TX west of Houston
Posts: 56,711
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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
Our first color TV was one mom bought in 1967 while dad was on remote TDY (temporary duty) in Korea. That is the same remote we had. Dad was gone for 18 months. Only letters that took a month to get back and forth and not other communications back then.
Anyway he came home and teased us all about being too lazy to get up and change the channel. Two days later I saw him on the couch using his toe to change the channel. He was too lazy to sit up to get the remote in in hand. He adopted to remote control quickly.
That TV was one we learned to turn off manually at the set. The remote used an audio tone. Our dog's tags could turn on the set while we were gone. We came home several times and the set was on and we knew it was off when we left. We could jingle the car keys and make the TV do random things. It was fun to mess with my brother when he was trying to watch some show.
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I think our first remote control TV was in the late 70s to early 80s. It was also audio. Opening a soda or beer can pop top or sneezing could change the channel.
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'08 Boxster RS60 Spyder #0099/1960
- never named a car before, but this is Charlotte.
'88 targa  SOLD 2004 - gone but not forgotten
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