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Robert Adler: Father of TV Remote Dead at 93
Robert Adler: Father of TV Remote Dead at 93
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He invented the remote control, for the love of god! The man is a hero.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate. -
Pity post.Comment
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Well, he was like an Abolishionist to me and my era..
you see, back in my day we didn't have remotes, we had children of our parents, and we would get our "Buttons" pushed by Mom and Dad and then we would go switch channels....
Now, back then in Maine we had only 3 channels from Maine and 2 Canadian stations..
We had to flip through the channels and an a few occasions tweak Rabbit Ears to get a signal
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I suppose the Canadian channels were UHF off that round antenna?Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
"Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ BraindeadComment
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Actually, our Rabbit Ears were not that great, we had an older set and during snow storms it wreaked havoc trying to get them to tune in
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Didn't use enough tin foil.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
"Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ BraindeadComment
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or maybe too muchOriginally posted by SlowwHand
Didn't use enough tin foil.
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I remember when family members could effect the tuning (for better or worse) just by standing or sitting in certain places. There would be complants as someone getting up to get something would cause a snowshower on the program.No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.Comment
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I still use rabbit ears to get the morning news. I refuse to pay good money for the crap on cable."I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark TwainComment
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You are all so old!
Speaking of Erith:
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Ooooohhhhh!!!
You had a colour TV!Even a fool is thought wise if he remains silent.Comment
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no..that was a google pic fer rabbit ears, we didnt have a color TV until IIRC early 1970'sOriginally posted by Soltz
Ooooohhhhh!!!
You had a colour TV!
Hi, I'm RAH and I'm a Benaholic.-rahComment
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Hehe, that reminds me of a classical april fools joke by the swedish television news. They had a very well respected TV-person announce that the Swedish Television Network had come up with a new technology that allowed ordinary B/W television sets to show colour. You just had to cut open a nylon stocking and attach that over the TV screen...
Now this was in 1962, and TV was a fairly new medium in Sweden. And there was only one channel at that time, so the impact was quite big...
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