Technology
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TeletextI have memories from around 1980 of visiting some friends of my parents who had a television with teletext. The television had a remote control and when you pressed a certain button the picture vanished and was replaced by a ...
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Television sets
Apart from the world of Hi' Def' and Plasma screens, television is not what it was.I remember getting a ?500 telly for ?120 in 1992 when Rumbelows closed down. It was, and still is, one of the best tellies I've ...
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Telex MachinesFond memories of playing this as a 10 year old. Remember being amazed by the Telex machine. Quite inventive too. I am going to search ebay for a good one. I have started to collect all the favourites board games ...
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The Locker Answering Machine
The Locker Answering Machine was a device made by Worlds of Wonder, which you'd stick on the inside of your locker door near the vent. I thought you were supposed to pound on the locker to start a recording, but ...
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Trim Phone
Trim phone ...
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Trimphones
Trimphones are a model of telephone that were designed in the UK in the late 1960s. It was considered a more fashionable alternative to the standard telephones available from Post Office Telephones. The name 'trimphone' is an acronym which stands ...
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Tube Testers
When I was a little boy, back in the early 1950s, I remember going to the drugstore with my dad whenever our television set quit working. He would have a paper sack full of vacuum tubes; he pulled out of ...
