Puzzle Description:

Box TV With Rabbit Ears

#1: Tom O'Connell (sensei69) on Sep 12, 2012

mine was older, Craig. It had a roundish screen

and you had to get up to change the channel :)

And endlessly change the rabbit ears. And sometimes you were the rabbit ears!

I had a round screen one too Tom,boy are we old,and yes Norma i had to be the bunny ears too.:)

You didn't have to get up much. Most markets only had 4-5 channels. I lived in LA and we had about 8 channels. The big 3 networks plus about 5 local stations.

We had 3 channels when I was growing up (ABC, NBC, CBS). When you turned the set off, the picture shrunk to a tiny white dot, which stayed visible for some time afterwards.

You would have to turn the set on to let it warm up for a few minutes before the picture would stabilize. The sets had adjustment knobs for horizontal and vertical hold.

yep...and at night...a sound with a pic of crossed lines design

Tin foil would help with reception sometimes.

Remember the broadcast sign off with the national anthem and test pattern?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po_hBMtTaDg

Nice puzzle, Craig.

I remember when....... frustrating rabbit ears!

Tin foil helps with lots of things...like keeping the aliens out of your head ;) I created a similar puzzle.

I remember the old TVs. I used to watch that show with the mouse. The old set was really rectangular and made out of wood...and it had just the little metal part on top...that's where you put the little piece of cheese and waited for the show to start.

Oh SNAP!

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