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We had this in my house growing up (infosec.pub)
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I was 4 years old, listening to a record on headphones connected to this rig. Leaned too far back, and caught the 1/4 inch input jack on the headphones right in my fucking eyeball.

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[–] Bluewing@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I grew up with vacuum tube TV, (we got one channel, maybe a second if the weather was right), and reel to reel tape players.

I still remember the TV not working and my Father pulling it away from the wall and removing the back to look for the burnt out tube. Then since this generally happened on a Friday evening, (no Saturday cartoons), we had to wait until Monday to drive into town and go to the drug store to test and search for a replacement tube.

When I got to be a teen, I remember listening to the local am rock radio station and waiting for hours for the latest hit to come on so we could record it on a portable cassette recorder. Both my sisters spent many evenings doing that. We were sailing the high seas of piracy before it even existed.

Ahhh, those were the days. I'm so glad we don't need to do that shit anymore.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I have some bad news for you, your Dad didn't want you watching those cartoons...

[–] Bluewing@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

So that explains all the getting up at 5am to milk cows, feed calves and steers and pigs, (my sisters fed the chickens, ducks and geese), shoveling shit, picking rocks, and pulling weeds..........

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Vacuum tubes hate that, so that's probably why they lost their vacuum on Fridays like clockwork...

[–] Bluewing@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Them cows were getting milked TV or not. Dead or alive, there weren't no days off.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 hours ago

Then the vacuum tubes failing on Friday evenings is truly a miracle of the modern age.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fun fact, recording stuff from the radio is not piracy. There's actually an exemption for broadcast recordings specifically.

Also, I have similar memories.

I too am old.

[–] Bluewing@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

Now that you mention it, yeah I remember that now. You ain't old yet. Just getting your second wind.

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

I grew up on crt as well, but that's because my parent's kept working until like 2015 when they swapped it for a 4k lcd with dimming zones