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I remember when I was a child than my next door neighbour had a remote control on their TV, which was connected to the actual set via a 5m thin cable. I though
by stevekemp 9y ago
I remember when I was a child than my next door neighbour had a remote control on their TV, which was connected to the actual set via a 5m thin cable.
I thought it was pretty cool that she could sit on her chair and change the channel & volume without getting up.
I suspect that if a dog had been involved that cable would have quickly become a tangled mess! (I'm not sure how common "wired remotes" were, that was certainly the only one I ever saw, in the early eighties.)
- Zancarius 9y agoI only ever saw one wired remote to the best of my recollection. It was on an old Sony Beta tape deck my parents owned. (This is from the 80s as well.)
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- hiharryhere 9y agoI remember seeing a really old pneumatic remote for a TV a long time ago. It was basically a rubber squeeze pump (just like on a blood pressure machine) and a rubber tube connected to the tv. When you squeezed the pump, the pressure in the tube would click the dial forward one notch.
- astura 9y agoReminds me of the time my siblings and I tried to build a manual remote control with K'Nex.
- taco_emoji 9y agoWe had a wired remote for our VHS tape player in the 80's [0] as well as a cable TV channel changer [1]. [0] Was this exact one: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/kyIAAOSwz71ZPcLZ/s-l300.jpg https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/kyIAAOSwz71ZPcLZ/s-l300.jpg [1] Looked something like this, IIRC: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O2PtM-x0fDc/UyFjySzfuCI/AAAAAAAAJ9s/gOrFErI8LV8/s1600/pSj5a3B.jpg http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O2PtM-x0fDc/UyFjySzfuCI/AAAAAAAAJ9...