And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
For those to young to remember, this mechanical remote control had 4 different lengths of aluminum rods that were struck by a "hammer" as a result of pushing the buttons (kind of like a DA revolver). The rods made a "ping" at 4 different frequencies. No batteries. Ours worked great with one complication - if the dog was in the room and decided to scratch, the noise from his tags on his collar could be interpreted by the TV as commands, and cause channels or volume to change or the TV to turn on or off. ART
I was offered that option when buying a TV back in the day. My response? "The day I can't get up to change the channel..." In my defense, there were only three channels back then.
You had UHF and VHF. Where I lived we had channel 6, 10 and 26. To get to 26 it was just one flip away. When Fox came out and I was the remote it sucked to go from 26 to 43. Kids today will never know.
That brings back memories.
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ReplyDeleteFor those to young to remember, this mechanical remote control had 4 different lengths of aluminum rods that were struck by a "hammer" as a result of pushing the buttons (kind of like a DA revolver). The rods made a "ping" at 4 different frequencies. No batteries. Ours worked great with one complication - if the dog was in the room and decided to scratch, the noise from his tags on his collar could be interpreted by the TV as commands, and cause channels or volume to change or the TV to turn on or off.
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Same thing happened with keys.
DeleteWe had one and the squeaky wheel on my mothers vacuum cleaner would change the channel.
DeleteThey had tuning forks in 'em
DeleteI was offered that option when buying a TV back in the day. My response? "The day I can't get up to change the channel..." In my defense, there were only three channels back then.
ReplyDeleteBefore that us kids were the remote, "One of you put it on channel 6".
ReplyDeleteYou had UHF and VHF. Where I lived we had channel 6, 10 and 26. To get to 26 it was just one flip away. When Fox came out and I was the remote it sucked to go from 26 to 43. Kids today will never know.
DeleteThe channels would change with a slinky too. One day our tv spontaneously combusted and no more slinky tv.
ReplyDeleteOur dog's tags jangling together would change the channel.
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