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minus-squareMonsiuerPatEBrownlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·11 months agoOur first tv with a remote control that wasn’t me or my sibling using small vise grip on channel knob had a telephone included in the tv. Like this was in 1982 so not a modem … just a tv with a land line phone built in that you have to use the remote to make or receive a call.
minus-squareSOB_Van_Owen@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·11 months agoYes! Those channel knobs were so easily broken. I thought we were the only ones turning channels with pair of vice-grips clamped on the nub.
Our first tv with a remote control that wasn’t me or my sibling using small vise grip on channel knob had a telephone included in the tv.
Like this was in 1982 so not a modem … just a tv with a land line phone built in that you have to use the remote to make or receive a call.
Yes! Those channel knobs were so easily broken. I thought we were the only ones turning channels with pair of vice-grips clamped on the nub.