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remember when the family got new "console" TV, it was a pretty piece of furniture. had large tv screen 33 1/3, 45 and 78 rpm STEREO! RECORD PLAYER, WITH am and fm radio. little red light was supposed to come on when you tuned in a stereo FM station. We had no fm stations period.
 
diferg said:
remember when the family got new "console" TV, it was a pretty piece of furniture. had large tv screen 33 1/3, 45 and 78 rpm STEREO! RECORD PLAYER, WITH am and fm radio. little red light was supposed to come on when you tuned in a stereo FM station. We had no fm stations period.
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I remember the box it came in... it was my submarine. :biggrin:
 
Igofar said:
Customer service in the USA and didn’t transfer you to India or some other country.
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Yeah, I love it on the occasions when I call support and the gentleman on the other end in a heavy Indian accent says, "thank you for calling tech support, my name is "John", how can I help you?" Or the Asian girl that says her name is "Susan"
 
Bmacleod said:
Its funny/ironic hearing all these stories of how things were before digital. Last week, the largest ISP in Canada went down for a day and it literally shut the country down. No Interac or debit/credit purchases could be processed. Needed cash to buy gas, groceries or anything, for that matter (very few people carry cash, it turns out...lol). Many people had the day off as companies couldnt operate. Much of the phone system was out as was the internet. It was like stepping back 40 years, even worse when you consider that 40 years ago, one would be carrying cash. Last friday, very few even had that and the banks couldnt give you cash, as their networks were down.
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Trial run.
 
How about saving the 5 box tops, or how ever many, IF mom would buy that cereal, sending them off and waiting what seemed like FOREVER (6 weeks) to get the prize/toy?

And then it was usually something far less that expected.

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Beeflips said:
Yeah, I love it on the occasions when I call support and the gentleman on the other end in a heavy Indian accent says, "thank you for calling tech support, my name is "John", how can I help you?" Or the Asian girl that says her name is "Susan"
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The work I do has me talking to them all the time... so hard to understand them as they talk so fast and have a heavy accent too... I just ask for them to email the info, I can at least read the response. :nuts:
 
diferg said:
remember when the family got new "console" TV, it was a pretty piece of furniture. had large tv screen 33 1/3, 45 and 78 rpm STEREO! RECORD PLAYER, WITH am and fm radio. little red light was supposed to come on when you tuned in a stereo FM station. We had no fm stations period.
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I love those things so much I have 3 of them now I bought at auction. my favorite is my 69 Curtis Mathis. So dang heavy I can hardly move it. I plan to install a new flat screen in it ....someday.
 
Slammer said:
Free bullet holes at the petrol station, and looking at the ads at the back of my comics. A polaris submarine, X-Rax specs and sea monkeys thinking how lucky American kids are if they can get a polaris submarine that fires missiles and torpedoes-
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You can still get free bullet holes in some places. Especially Chicago....jus sayin.
 
oil companies, Mobile, Sinclair, Amaco, Shell etc. had ads on tv.
remember the Slide it for using a credit card? station kept stiff paper copy and customer got the carbon copy
jelly jars were designer glasses usually with floral patterns for the kitchen.
minimum 10-gallon fill-up to get the Hess toy tanker truck
{EDIT} tv commercial for Timex " it takes a licking and keeps on ticking!" Today that would be considered a socially incorrect statment!
 
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remember the plastic sheet that was 1/3 blue, 1/3 red and 1/3 green and you would tape it to the B&W tv screen.

dry cleaning that was picked up and delivered to your house
 
Aluminum drinking cups in metallic pastel colors that always made your drink smell and taste funny.
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