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Comments on Puzzle #20170: After the sign-off
By Dave Oas (khpdave)

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  quality:   difficulty:   solvability: line logic only  

Puzzle Description:

Back in the day when cable was just steel rope.

#1: Norma Dee (norm0908) on Oct 24, 2012

Very good. And we would just sit there staring at the little white dot.
#2: valerie o..travis (bigblue) on Oct 24, 2012
good one dave :)
#3: Aldege Cholette (aldege) on Oct 24, 2012
Nice bit of nostalgia Dave.:)
#4: Dave Oas (khpdave) on Oct 24, 2012
For some reason Norma, we just couldn't turn away until that dot completely disappeared.
#5: Tom O'Connell (sensei69) on Oct 25, 2012
yep..HAD to watch it go out ;/
#6: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Oct 28, 2012 [SPOILER]
I remember TVs going flat to a line as they shut off, but the dot was before my time. Oddly, my new phone shrinks its screen to a line as it shuts off. Trying to pander to the boomers' nostalgia?

This must be a lefties' model - all the TVs I remember had the controls on the right. Or maybe it was made in England?
#7: Tom O'Connell (sensei69) on Oct 28, 2012
hmmmmm
#8: BlackCat (blackcat) on Oct 28, 2012
Why?
#9: Kristen Vognild (Kristen) on Oct 28, 2012
It's probably just seen through a mirror :)
#10: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Oct 29, 2012
BlackCat: Which?
#11: Dave Oas (khpdave) on Oct 30, 2012 [SPOILER]
Joe is mighty observant - everyone else missed that I made the TV upside-down with the rabbit ears on the bottom.

Nice catch, Joe!
#12: Susan (Susan) on Jun 4, 2017 [SPOILER]
I remember controls on the right, and the lingering white spot in the middle too. Those were the days!
#13: Dave Oas (khpdave) on Jun 9, 2017 [SPOILER]
The old TVs with rabbit ears were like an intruder detection device. When someone walked into the room, it messed up the picture's "fine-tuning".
#14: Norma Dee (norm0908) on Jun 17, 2017
And they always walked in at that crucial moment when all is revealed.
#15: Dave Oas (khpdave) on Jun 18, 2017
That "someone" was always my sister.

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