For me it’s the notification light you used to find on older phones, was particularly good to know if your phone was charged without picking it up

  • @laverabe
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    329 months ago

    I miss the instant channel switching on old analog tv sets. Everything now is digital so the switching is done with microprocessors, but on old sets you could flip through about 5 channels a second, as fast as you could press the button.

      • @RalphFurley
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        69 months ago

        We had the knob but it broke off. So we had a pair of pliers sitting on top of the TV to turn the dial (from 2 through 13).

        My friends weren’t as poor so they’d have a converter box. It had an actual remote and that sound it made as it flipped through all the channels. I can’t even describe the sound but if you know, you know it.

      • @Chee_Koala
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        29 months ago

        I had found one at home with only knobs, and at the time I dug that out of the attic, the only TV it could receive was state TV. An B&W. Still, It was amazing to me that i could even receive TV wireless. Turning those knobs felt… decisive!

      • @laverabe
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        29 months ago

        yeah, looked like it was from the 50’s