X Box - 70’s style

[Nimbus]

Originally Posted by 2point

When we had our first one like that only had 4 buttons on the TV (yes kids, buttons, you had to get up off the sofa to turn the telly over).

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The first TV I owned had a dial to change the frequency/channel. The only button it had was the on/off button. There were stickers that you could buy to mark where the various TV channels were on the dial.

Ah, fun times!

[2point]

Originally Posted by Nimbus

The first TV I owned had a dial to change the frequency/channel. The only button it had was the on/off button. There were stickers that you could buy to mark where the various TV channels were on the dial.

Ah, fun times!

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I had a ZX81 and wanted a TV so I could programme in my bedroom. My mum and dad bought me a 2nd hand TV.
I wanted one of those sleek Sony Monitor looking ones, I got an ITT KB250. It was enormous, valve driven with two tuners, a 625 line and the old 405 line.

[Disneyfreaks]

We had one of these...great fun & oh soooo simple ! Swiftly followed by an Atari I believe !

[Scotty]

Haha Pong was the first game that DS coded - I think he was in 1st year at secondary school. He wanted to go into games development, until he discovered pen testing.

[YorkshireT]

Originally Posted by 2point

I had a ZX81 and wanted a TV so I could programme in my bedroom. My mum and dad bought me a 2nd hand TV.
I wanted one of those sleek Sony Monitor looking ones, I got an ITT KB250. It was enormous, valve driven with two tuners, a 625 line and the old 405 line.

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You were lucky, back then TVs were so expensive if you bought one it was often only a portable, otherwise it was off to Rumbelows, Radio Rentals etc.

Later I had a job in Boots selling TVs and HiFis and the like, this would have been late 80s when I was doing A Levels. Every time we sold a TV we had to demand ID, and fill in a form informing TV licensing that this person had bought a television.

Same when you hired one. When I went to university we hired TVs and never of course voluntarily paid the TV license. One day there was a knock on the door, I was about to answer when heard a radio. I thought who is this ? Looked through the window and there he was, TV licensing man. Didn’t answer obviously and we had a whip around and went to the Post Office and bought one straight away.

Year after I was in another house, same story, came around again, fortunately this was a week before end of term, so when he had gone we picked up the TV and took it to a mates house a few doors down and left it there before returning it to Rumbelows.

I think I had a SNES by this point.

[BevS97]

We move to the states in 1979 and dad bought us an Atari not long after. We thought it was amazing! Later my brother had a Nintendo but I was never as mothered with that. I’d moved onto a Commodore 64 and trying a bit of programming. I do have fond memories of the Atari though.

[YorkshireT]

Originally Posted by BevS97

We move to the states in 1979 and dad bought us an Atari not long after. We thought it was amazing! Later my brother had a Nintendo but I was never as mothered with that. I’d moved onto a Commodore 64 and trying a bit of programming. I do have fond memories of the Atari though.

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I had a C 64 too after the Spectrum. Was much more powerful.
Where did you live in States?

[BevS97]

Omaha Nebraska / Pittsburgh PA / Bethlehem PA / Minnesota / New Jersey

In just over 10 years! I was in Pittsburgh and Bethlehem for the longest times though.