jeffrey marousek wrote: > then you are not old enough. 30-35 years ago, all remotes clicked. you > had to have a lot of money back then to possess one though! there were 5 > buttons. one for power, one for channel up, one for channel down, one for > volume up, and one for volume down. pretty ingenious for the time. each > click created an ultrasonic frequency...no batteries required!
You don't even have to be that old yourself. My grandparents had a Zenith console TV into the late 1980s that had this "clicker": http://www.flickr.com/photos/15692...@n00/1524813919/ Note that it has only four buttons. If I recall correctly, pressing the volume button by itself meant "mute"; adjusting the volume required pressing the volume button at the same time as either of the channel buttons. -- Jim Ellwanger <train...@ellwanger.tv> <http://www.ellwanger.tv> -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
