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Old Feb 10, 2010, 10:04 PM   #1001
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Hey Kovoet smoke signals lmao. What do you remember most about those great 60s.
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Old Feb 11, 2010, 01:09 AM   #1002
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Remember the earliest remotes that worked on sound? You could jangle a bunch of keys and change the channel.

My old boss once stayed in a fleabag motel with his family. It had a really old TV, no remote, just round dials. His kids didn't know how to work it. Sometimes being an old timer isn't a handicap.
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Old Feb 11, 2010, 09:04 PM   #1003
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Age don't make you old....Wife/Kids/House.......that"ll make you old....but it's a journey well spent.

43yr's young here.
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Old Feb 11, 2010, 09:28 PM   #1004
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Hey Kovoet smoke signals lmao. What do you remember most about those great 60s.
Thats the point nothing lol was all a haze lol
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Old Feb 11, 2010, 09:29 PM   #1005
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1000+ posts. TPU community is pretty matured.
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Old Feb 11, 2010, 11:15 PM   #1006
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^^ old farts REBOOT every 10 years
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Old Feb 12, 2010, 01:03 AM   #1007
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Hey {JNT}Raptor wife and kid's will make you insane and thats the reason im not married lol.



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Hey Kovoet smoke signals lmao. What do you remember most about those great 60s.
Thats the point nothing lol was all a haze lol

The great music for me. Man thank god for ytube because i use it all the time and SKY FM...
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Old Feb 12, 2010, 03:13 AM   #1008
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Remember TV...
3 VHF channels,
3 UHF channels if you could adjust them in.
Rabbit ears helped

and TV went off the air at about 1:30AM
National Anthem then.......snow
Oh man, I remember that was the case, not only in the latter part of the 60's, but well into the 70's were I grew up Little tiny town in the middle of Montana; the population was about 2000. The only way we could even get any television was with "rabbit ears."
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Old Feb 12, 2010, 12:02 PM   #1009
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Even better...

What were some of your favorite TV shows from way back when???
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Old Feb 12, 2010, 12:45 PM   #1010
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Gamer till the day I die!

34 yrs old and not getting any younger!! Been gaming since I was 5 yrs old on the Odyssey Gaming System circa 1978!!

Check out these specs....now that makes me feel old!

* CPU
o Intel 8048 8-bit microcontroller running at 1.79 MHz
* Memory:
o CPU-internal RAM: 64 bytes
o Audio/video RAM: 128 bytes
o BIOS ROM: 1024 bytes

* Video:
o Intel 8244 custom IC
o 160×200 resolution (NTSC)
o 16-color fixed palette; sprites may only use 8 of these colors
o 4 8×8 single-color user-defined sprites; each sprite's color may be set independently
o 12 8×8 single-color characters; must be one of the 64 shapes built into the ROM BIOS; can be freely positioned like sprites, but cannot overlap each other; each character's color may be set independently
o 4 quad characters; groups of four characters displayed in a row
o 9×8 background grid; dots, lines, or solid blocks

* Audio:
o Intel 8244 custom IC
o mono
o 24-bit shift register, clockable at 2 frequencies
o noise generator
o NOTE: There is only one 8244 chip in the system, which performs both audio and video functions.

* Input:
o Two 8-way, one-button, digital joysticks. In the first production runs of the Magnavox Odyssey and the Philips 7000, these were permanently attached to the console; in later models, they were removable and replaceable.
o QWERTY-layout membrane keyboard
* Output:
o RF Audio/Video connector
o Péritel/SCART connector (France only)
* Media:
o ROM cartridges, typically 2 KB, 4 KB, or 8 KB in size.

Videopac with chess module

* Expansion modules:
o The Voice - provides speech synthesis & enhanced sound effects
o Chess Module - The Odyssey2 didn't have enough memory and computing power for a decent implementation of chess on its own, so the C7010 chess module contained a secondary CPU with its own extra memory to run the chess program.
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Old Feb 12, 2010, 12:52 PM   #1011
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You deserved a thanks for that! I remember that thing, my cousin had one. That thing was a blast.
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Old Feb 12, 2010, 01:14 PM   #1012
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34 yrs old and not getting any younger!! Been gaming since I was 5 yrs old on the Odyssey Gaming System circa 1978!!
Sounds nice, we had a system about 1974 or 1975
you could only play PONG, but it was soooo Awesome!!!
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Old Feb 12, 2010, 03:06 PM   #1013
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The oldest thing i played was the NES.and sega genesis 3(still have it around someplace )
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Old Feb 12, 2010, 05:33 PM   #1014
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Since i have 7 sisters and brothers older than me i had to watch most of their stuff. Hey i had some favorites to. I like sci-fi series alot like.

The time Tunnel
The invaders


Some others

Man from uncle
Mission impossible
Wild,wild west
Wrestling out of Cleveland,Ohio.
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Old Feb 12, 2010, 05:43 PM   #1015
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^^ old farts REBOOT every 10 years
Damn come June I will be on my 5th reboot
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Old Feb 12, 2010, 05:44 PM   #1016
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Since i have 7 sisters and brothers older than me i had to watch most of their stuff. Hey i had some favorites to. I like sci-fi series alot like.

The time Tunnel
The invaders


Some others

Man from uncle
Mission impossible
Wild,wild west
Wrestling out of Cleveland,Ohio.

That's good, access to Pr0n at such an early age
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Old Feb 12, 2010, 06:38 PM   #1017
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Land of the Giants
Emergency
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
I Dream of Jeannie
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Old Feb 12, 2010, 06:46 PM   #1018
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34 yrs old and (snip snip)
I'm 34yrs too. Thanks for remembering what I could never have remembered.
You made me remember a game called Worm, it was on DOS (Windows didn't exist but it was nice.) If only I had a camera way back then...
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Old Feb 12, 2010, 07:43 PM   #1019
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What kind of pipes?
Ooohhh, I didn't say nuthin....lol

I have grown fond of my pajamas now a days..
Funny how that works..
Slippers, not so much....lol
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Old Feb 13, 2010, 05:32 AM   #1020
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Adam 12
Emergency Squad 51 KMG365
my favorite Martian
Rowen and Martin laugh in
Leave it to Beaver
Get Smart...loved that show the cone of silence

Hogans heroes
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Old Feb 13, 2010, 09:11 AM   #1021
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Ahhh One sees that all you old farts are still alive =)
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Adam 12
Emergency Squad 51 KMG365
my favorite Martian
Rowen and Martin laugh in
Leave it to Beaver
Get Smart...loved that show the cone of silence

Hogans heroes
Yes the cone of silence was unbelievably loud and echoed
so hard to remember.

How about the Mod Squad, Switch, Streets of San Francisco, Columbo (his dog ),
Mannix, Marcus Welby M.D., Room 222, etc...
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Old Feb 16, 2010, 07:28 AM   #1023
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I'm more from the Dixon of Dock Green and Z Cars era myself
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As a kid I watched.
Speed racer.
Thundercats.
GI joe.
Voltron.

A bit later it was.

Mash.
Night court.
WQRP in cincinatti.

Likely more but I can't think about them all.
Great series.

I starter gaming with Atari and colecovision.
Ahh the days of pong..
I can't believe how far we have come in 20 years.

First game I ever played "I think" was "Oregon trail" lol..
A game made for elementary school classrooms I think it was.
Apple computer I believe.
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Old Feb 16, 2010, 09:28 PM   #1025
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Oh yah, Oregon Trail was great. I always lost everything while trying to ford rivers. Text games really harken me back to my youth, ZORK!!

Who else swelled with pride at some of their LOGO programs?
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