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General Topics => All things that have nothing to do with Turkey => Topic started by: Scunner on December 09, 2009, 22:52:53 PM
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it won't catah on :)
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It's Betamax, it didn't :D
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Look at the size of the Video player!! No wonder they used to sell cabinets to stand them on!! :D
I remember taking voluntary redundancy from my job when I was 21 (had another job to go to, and needed the payout, as we'd just got married!). It was 27 years ago, and we paid £1000 for a normal 20" tele and a video player!! You'd get them both now for about £200 (well, obviously a dvd player instead)!!! :)
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:) looks a bit bit like my old bakelite PC.
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I remember the first video rental shop opening in our town, it was £60 just to be a member! That was serious money indeed back then. After that you had to pay for the films of course. They were all crap, old movies that you can see on cable and satellite one after the other for nothing these days. All the big movies in the cinema took YEARS to come to video.
So, for your £60 and another fiver you could have a fabulous night in watching an old western. And maybe your neighbours couldn't :D
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We got the latest Sony betamax with remote control!!!! cost about £500 the remote was on a length of wire that plugged into the front of the player, and as Peter Kay said nobody would nick it you needed 4 men to carry it
Mark
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compare the prices of 20-30 years ago to what it costs for anything today, then compare the wages from then to what they are today. makes me laugh when people say how expensive things are.
when we married we had a second-hand bedroom suite, tv, kitchen table & 2 chairs, cooker, and no washing machine.
today they have 42" tv's, wii"s, computers, ipods, etc., etc., etc., and think they're hard done by!!!!
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arrian, that sounds just like us when we got married 36 years ago! I don't think we had anything new, other than the wedding presents we'd had bought. All our money went on the deposit for the house.
Oh happy days!! ;)
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Haha those things actually existed? Wow, I thought my uncle was lying.
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We only had 3 channels too winko, did your uncle tell you that? Also, and you will be shocked to hear this, if you wanted to change from one of those three channels to another, you had to get up and walk to the telly and press a button! :D
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you had to get up and walk to the telly and press a button!
Not if you had Redifusion:D
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Originally posted by Diverbaz 1
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you had to get up and walk to the telly and press a button!
Not if you had Redifusion:D
We had Redifusion and we did not have a remote, however, my Father invented the first one. It was a long thin metal rod that he kept down the side of his chair and when he wanted to change one of the three channels he used his special "remote" which was just long enough to reach the T.V. if he held it out... I often think how dangerous that was...
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Redifusion had a switch on the wall for changing the radio and tv channels, which my father had placed convieniently beside his chair.
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Our Dad had remote control for the TV, it was called the kids,"change the channel will you", not a request.
Kaz :)
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i reckon we had the first ever colour television!
i didn't like the wooden casing, so i painted it white!!!
that was in 1967
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and i know it's technically not a colour, but you know what i'm saying,huh? :-\
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My husband bought one of those VCR's when we first got married. He wouldn't show me how to set the timer on it though!! He reckoned that I would tape soaps and that would be a waste of tape! ;)
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Your husband was right!
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Woooooo:D ;)
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My husband also bought me a microwave as a Christmas present, the year I was pregnant. It was the size of a house (well nearly) and cost about £300. His reason for buying it was so that I wouldn't be awake all night warming the baby bottles!! I didn'nt want to tell him that I was going to feed the baby myself :-\: :)
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Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that I sacked him 12 years ago:D
He got to keep the microwave....He's living in it! hahaha: :)
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I am astounded that it was that bad for TV
3 CHANNELS??? How mental is that? And getting up to change the channel is ludicrous!
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Originally posted by Scunner
It's Betamax, it didn't :D
i know it was a toss up between vhs and betamax (back then in the old days):P but that's life ;)
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Originally posted by scouser2swife
My husband also bought me a microwave as a Christmas present, the year I was pregnant. It was the size of a house (well nearly) and cost about £300. His reason for buying it was so that I wouldn't be awake all night warming the baby bottles!! I didn'nt want to tell him that I was going to feed the baby myself :-\: :)
my hubbie bought me one of the first microwaves a sharp they were huge.sacked him 12yrs ago too.spooky or what:P
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Originally posted by tiddly winks
I am astounded that it was that bad for TV
3 CHANNELS??? How mental is that? And getting up to change the channel is ludicrous!
Not just 3 channels they were not 24 hours either. BBC 2 used to start at about 10 am and the programmes were all education programmes for schools till about 3pm. when you look back it was crap back then. I bought my one & only ever microwave about 20 years ago for £100 & its still going strong. To replace it now with an identical quality one would cost about £40.
I also remember my mum buying a calculator when they first came out. it was £30, very basic and massive in comparison to todays.
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Yes that's right, I remember the shock and indeed controversy surrounding the possibility of "Breakfast Television" - there had not been any thought to turn on a telly at breakfast time because there was nothing on whatsoever. Some thought television while the family spent quality time together round the breakfast table (yes you had a different table for each meal back then) would further erode the family itself. Others wondered what they were talking about as they hadn't sat with their family at breakfast time in years.
I remember counting the minutes pass in the cold, dark winter evenings when BBC2 would start broadcasting children's programmes from 6pm, invariably starting with Harold Lloyd in black & white. One further advance in television was when through the night television went from nothing to CEEFAX pages on a loop. There was always 6 pages for anything vaguely interesting, which changed when they wanted - generally two and a half minutes after you read the whole of page one. Then page two would only stay for 12 seconds.
We're all beginning to sound like our dads :D
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what about the days before central heating, when the inside of the windows where frozen, and you wore 3 layers of clothing, woolly socks and gloves, and had a hot water bottle, and that was just going to bed!!!!!
and i remember school milk when the milk was frozen.
( i think i've morphed into my mum)
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I remember my mom saying to me not to play to near to the TV because of the Valves????? :)
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We had a pay to view tv (fortunately not for long).....a slot tv.....put 2 shillings in the slot at the back.....cannot remember how long it last.... but what a pain when it run out :o
Those were the days ;)
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Who remembers watching the coronation of the Queen? It was the reason that my family bought a TV. I was so young at the time that I thought it was fairies in a box. My dad built me a special chair to watch it.
Do you remember the Hogmany parties on New Years Eve with Andy (I cannot remember his surname)? :)
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I remember the shilling in the slot gas meters, my old man was agas fitter and had a key to the meters, we often got a surprised look from the collector when he open the meter and found pound notes in the box, where father had changed money to get some shillings for the meter.
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My only thoughts to all of this:
:o :o :o :o :o
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They'll be saying this about DVD's in a few years. Mark my words :)
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Originally posted by tiddly winks
My only thoughts to all of this:
:o :o :o :o :o
She Tiddly, you don't know how lucky you youngsters are !!!! ;)
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I remember people not entirely believing that you could record a programme even if you were out, and even 'popping back' half way through their night out to check if it had started :D
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Originally posted by Daffodil
Who remembers watching the coronation of the Queen? It was the reason that my family bought a TV. I was so young at the time that I thought it was fairies in a box. My dad built me a special chair to watch it.
Do you remember the Hogmany parties on New Years Eve with Andy (I cannot remember his surname)? :)
The coronation was before my time, but the new years specials were Andy Stewart I think, and don't forget Stanley Baxters Festive specials.[8)]
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Originally posted by Diverbaz 1
I remember the shilling in the slot gas meters, my old man was agas fitter and had a key to the meters, we often got a surprised look from the collector when he open the meter and found pound notes in the box, where father had changed money to get some shillings for the meter.
We had one for the electricity. My mum used to get a rebate and would go to Brentford Nylons to get blanket seconds ;) and sheet material
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What about people getting done for having rusty meters where they had been making coins out of ice which melted inside the meter. Or did I dream that. Or was it on Only Fools and Horses :D
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Our first "colour" tele was our old black and white tv with a stick on plastic panel, with 3 coloured stripes going across the screen (honest!). I can't remember the colours exactly, but think they were blue, orange and green, going downwards! Great, when it was someones face on the whole screen - they were multicoloured! :P
(My mum sent off for it - as some of our friends had colour tv's and us kids were jealous!) :)
And what about phones? We never had one in the house at all. Our first phone was when we got married 28 years ago. It was left by the previous owners of the house, and it was on incoming calls only, cos we couldn't afford another bill! :o
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I remember my Grandad being amazed shortly before he died when video recorders came out and him saying that must be it now, surely technology cant really go any further. What a shock he would have now if he was still alive. Its sad as I think he would have loved the internet, and I can imagine him emailing me all sorts of odds and ends as he was always cutting funny things out of the newspaper.
I'm still using my Sharp microwave that I bought for £125 on interest free credit in 1984.
And I had a Sony betamax, the man in the shop insisted we would follow America and VHS would be obsolete.
I also remember my Dad being so proud of his 8 track stereo in his car.
And I've still got my Sinclair Spectrum pc and loads of games in a cupboard, though I'm not sure why.
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I don't remember these but you could rent a savings clock, you put two shillings in it every week and it keep going. There was a collector who came and collected the money every so often and you got a percentage of the money, but you had to give some up for renting the clock. I know about these because as an Antiques dealer I have sold them.. The Americans love them, think they are "cute" They usually sell for about £20.00 each.
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Luxury!!...we used to live in hole in the road and eat a handful of hot gravel then pay the t'pit owner for the privelege of working a 25 hour shift..I can see where this is going.
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Does anyone remember Spangles sweets?
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I remember spangles.They were the fruit flavoured hard sweets. Also does anyone remember Texan bars? What about Pyramint? and Fry's chocolate cream that was different colours and different fruit flavours all the way through?
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and who remembers mojo`s and 1d bars of blue bird toffee and blackjacks..now i am showing my age:P
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i remember the slot tv's
how we have progressed since then
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I feel so young!
But I remember Bugs Bunny jelly carrot sweets and when Freddos cost 10p. And those weird candy sticks that everyone pretended were cigarettes. Those were the days :)
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I remember when Mars Bars went up from 10p to 11p [:o]
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I can remember when minstral chocolate sweets were called 'treats' and the advert said 'they melt in your mouth and not your hand'
And when Snickers was a Marathon bar.:D
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Originally posted by scouser2swife
I can remember when minstral chocolate sweets were called 'treats' and the advert said 'they melt in your mouth and not your hand'
And when Snickers was a Marathon bar.:D
Oh yeah and we sat around watching our betamax video recorder...there was nowt on telly so we just watched the video box, eating our Marathon and Topic bars.[:o)]
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And bags of crisps had little blue twisted pieces of paper in containing the salt. Sometimes there were loads of them in a bag and sometimes not one.
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Originally posted by Daffodil
And bags of crisps had little blue twisted pieces of paper in containing the salt. Sometimes there were loads of them in a bag and sometimes not one.
Oh Cripes! Anyone remember when they brought out Hedgehog flavoured crisps? I couldn't bring myself to eat them.
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and anyone remeber the early mobile phones! A handset the size of a handbrick and the phone components where in a brief case sized box. To use/charge it you either plugged it into the mains or into a car battery, coverage was at best 'patchy' and a second hand set woud cost you £1500! ! ! ! The only thing you could do with it was call and talk. To make a call - even if there was no pick up cost you 50p.
Now what can't you do with an iphone?
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Originally posted by brianthegardener
and who remembers mojo`s and 1d bars of blue bird toffee and blackjacks..now i am showing my age:P
Oh, Mojos ! i used to pick out all the chocolate ones....and leave the banana flavour ! What about Opalmints...(think they became Pacers before they disappeared entirely).
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