Fr. Jerk Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 (edited) 22 minutes ago, Gray Beard said: The Agony of Defeat on ABC Wide World of Sports OUCH! That left a mark! Was that late 60’s early 70s? That made an impression on this young kid! . Edited April 13, 2020 by Augie 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turk71 Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 8 minutes ago, Gray Beard said: The Agony of Defeat on ABC Wide World of Sports Yes, the thrill of victory and unfortunately for this poster child, the agony of defeat. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miyagi-Do Karate Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 6 hours ago, Gray Beard said: I didn’t realize this until recently, but blockbuster had a chance to buy Netflix back in 2000 for $50m. They laughed at Netflix, and basically threw them out of a meeting. BB obviously went bankrupt, and Netflix is worth like $40 billion! 1 hour ago, KD in CA said: Boy was that fancy and hi-tech coming from this (btw....can anyone under the age of 50 identify what the second dial was for?): I am under 50, and all I remember about that second dial was, as a little kid, I would desperately turn it to try to improve terrible reception, and it would work like 1% of the time. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unbillievable Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 After installing the new TV, and getting no signal, I suggested that we "turn" it to channel 3... ...everyone laughed at me. ? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gray Beard Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 (edited) I remember tagging along with my father when he would go to the hardware store with a bunch of tubes from the back of the tv and test them to see which ones had gone bad. Edited April 13, 2020 by Gray Beard 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaoulDuke79 Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 Buying smokes out of one of these when I was 15. 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
outsidethebox Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 Man I miss those days! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gray Beard Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 9 minutes ago, RaoulDuke79 said: Buying smokes out of one of these when I was 15. All the people at work under the age of 40 are shocked to find out that these things used to be next to all the candy and soda machines scattered throughout the building. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unbillievable Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 Spent a lot of time in here... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apuszczalowski Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 1 hour ago, The Jerk said: I still have mine in my basement, In the basement at my moms house we still have a Sega Game Gear, Master System, Genesis, Original Playstation, and an Atari 2600. All still work too I believe 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RocCityRoller Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 2 hours ago, KD in CA said: Boy was that fancy and hi-tech coming from this (btw....can anyone under the age of 50 identify what the second dial was for?): I'm 44. One was UHF band, and the other VHF band. In Rochester, I think UHF was 21 and 31. 'Quit turning the knobs so fast, you will break the TV' 6 hours ago, RaoulDuke79 said: My kids were playing with some Easter gifts and one of them reminded me of the Mad Scientist toy collection from when I was a kid. My sister had this, you could perform 'surgery' on the alien in all the goop! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apuszczalowski Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 1 hour ago, JR in Pittsburgh said: I didn’t realize this until recently, but blockbuster had a chance to buy Netflix back in 2000 for $50m. They laughed at Netflix, and basically threw them out of a meeting. BB obviously went bankrupt, and Netflix is worth like $40 billion! In hindsight that looks bad, VERY BAD, but at the time I believe Netflix was just a rental service where you got your movies on a DVD in the mail or from a vending machine for a few days. Its not the online stream service its now become back then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Miyagi-Do Karate Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 13 minutes ago, apuszczalowski said: In hindsight that looks bad, VERY BAD, but at the time I believe Netflix was just a rental service where you got your movies on a DVD in the mail or from a vending machine for a few days. Its not the online stream service its now become back then. I agree. There are a lot of stories of missed opportunities based on hindsight. Yahoo could have bought both google and facebook! from what I have read about nextflix though, they had a vision for an online business and pitched that to blockbuster. The CEO of blockbuster said that the dot com thing was just a fad, and passed. 21 minutes ago, RocCityRoller said: I'm 44. One was UHF band, and the other VHF band. In Rochester, I think UHF was 21 and 31. 'Quit turning the knobs so fast, you will break the TV' I grew up in Rochester, and now am remembering this!! Channel 31! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RocCityRoller Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 1 hour ago, JR in Pittsburgh said: I grew up in Rochester, and now am remembering this!! Channel 31! How about 'Howdy Buckaroos'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miyagi-Do Karate Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 24 minutes ago, RocCityRoller said: How about 'Howdy Buckaroos'? haha— that is classic!! Ranger Bob’s Buckaroo Club!! by the way, I still can hear the one commercial they’d play all the time on channel 31 for ROC Communications car stereos (“go to the Roc... r..o...c...rr...o...c... communications!”). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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