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Did anyone else ever have to turn the antenna?

Haha.

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All the damn time.

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STOP! STOP! NO NO GO BACK! YOU WENT TO HOLD IT RIGHT THERE!

Haha! Drove me nuts!

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Then you march off to grab more tin foil to add to the rabbit ears and start all over again.

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Holy shit! That remote also works as a dishwasher and snow remover! Technology is fucking amazing!

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AND a beer getter!

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And a pollution free leaf blower! The possibilities are endless!

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Nah, that's a 1960s remote. This is a 1970s remote: https://pic8.co/sh/tgJofx.jpg

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super LATE 70s, maybe.

Or my folks just didn't see the need for that since I was there and all... the latter kind of makes sense, yeah.

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https://zenith.com/heritage/remote-background/

We had remotes in the mid 80’s at our house, I remember going to my grandparents farm when I was a kid in the 80s and bitching about having to get up and physically turn the knob and having my grandfather give me the “we walked to school barefoot in the snow uphill both ways” lecture...

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The very first ones I saw were clear plastic strings with a remote on the end. Looked like monofilament. Yes, that's right...stringing fishing line across the living room just so your fat ass didn't have to get up to change the 3 VHF and 6 UHF channels. None of which came in all that well anyway.

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Weird.

I think the VCR my folks had might have had a pneumatic remote. It only paused and unpaused, and it looked like a little hose, and the button had a bunch of travel and was all squishy. Idunno, not like I was allowed to take it apart and find out, that thing cost thousands, and in 70s dollars!

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My grandparents had one of those I think. It stayed attached to the VCR yeah?

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Holy crap. Now that's amazing. I never saw anything like that!

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Were they the ones that struck the little chime bar to change the channel and volume only, or did you have one of the early full-function remotes?

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My Mom's neighbor had an authentic Zenith Space command. I wanted to buy it, but I was poor at the time. She died. No idea what happened to it.

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This model looks fatter than the one my folks' TV used.

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Those remotes weren't very dependable and often called me a meanie butt.

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someone should get that child away from that dangerous device

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That is actually ((()))