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chicot60
07-14-2015, 01:21 PM
http://i.imgur.com/KEj7ERIl.jpg

fonger
07-14-2015, 01:23 PM
i remember my dad had this one..

http://jimcofer.com/personal/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/JerroldRemoteControl.jpg

kijiji
07-14-2015, 01:45 PM
Pretty sure Zenith made the very first remote it worked off of frequencies you could shake your keys and it would change channels.24695

bigbadbrother
07-14-2015, 01:49 PM
Pretty sure Zenith made the very first remote it worked off of frequencies you could shake your keys and it would change channels.24695

That's the one I remember. If you had keys they would change the channel of turn the TV off. After awhile I would shake keys just to tick my dad off.

kijiji
07-14-2015, 02:25 PM
That's the one I remember. If you had keys they would change the channel of turn the TV off. After awhile I would shake keys just to tick my dad off.

lol..............me too.I think we both gave our age up bro.

Terryl
07-14-2015, 03:46 PM
Pretty sure Zenith made the very first remote it worked off of frequencies you could shake your keys and it would change channels.24695


My Dad would not let my little Brother play with his slinky, it would change the channels and turn the TV on and off, Dad thought the TV was going nuts, had two repairmen and one exchange of the TV before he saw what was going on, you could shake the slinky up and down and it would change the TV channels, let it go down the stairs and it would turn it on and off.

Bill could not find his slinky for several years, until we got a new color TV, it had a different remote................ Called Bill and Terryl..........Bill found the slinky in his toy box the next day.

kijiji
07-14-2015, 03:57 PM
My Dad would not let my little Brother play with his slinky, it would change the channels and turn the TV on and off, Dad thought the TV was going nuts, had two repairmen and one exchange of the TV before he saw what was going on, you could shake the slinky up and down and it would change the TV channels, let it go down the stairs and it would turn it on and off.

Bill could not find his slinky for several years, until we got a new color TV, it had a different remote................ Called Bill and Terryl..........Bill found the slinky in his toy box the next day.

too funny bro

torpainter
07-14-2015, 04:01 PM
i remember my dad had this one..

http://jimcofer.com/personal/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/JerroldRemoteControl.jpg

I had that one...lol

Condor
07-14-2015, 04:25 PM
Here is mine I still use it. Bought overseas a while back...heheheheheeee

http://i493.photobucket.com/albums/rr298/bolivia_04/miscellaneous/my%20remote_zpsg7ig712o.jpg

kijiji
07-14-2015, 04:56 PM
I had that one...lol

we used theses converters back in the day to get pay stations on cable you could open them up and set your own channels on the high band.

Condor
07-14-2015, 05:15 PM
we used theses converters back in the day to get pay stations on cable you could open them up and set your own channels on the high band.

That reminds me... Anyone remember "ON TV"... Lol..That first "cable" channel.. Used to go and buy the kits from Radio Shack and watch extremely grainy soft porn on that one channel...

kijiji
07-14-2015, 05:33 PM
Can't say i do ? after watching did it turn you on lol.

Condor
07-14-2015, 05:36 PM
Can't say i do ? after watching did it turn you on lol.

I was about 8yrs old.. Beheheheee...Actually it was hardcore... If I remember correctly it was the very first ever "cable" channel...

kijiji
07-14-2015, 05:43 PM
Never heard of it must of been only in the states brother not canada.