Topic: I'm officially old.

[Ceric]

Well, maybe you're further out than I was thinking. My wife drove to Nashville in 8 hours. I drove to UBs in 6, not counting the snow storm.

It be 8 hours then.  I live near Nashville... Plowing through the snow to UBs ...  Nail biting.

[Morari]

The tvs had a seperate dial for channels over 13.

As I recall, the only channel we ever had that high was PBS. I'm thinking that it actually came in as Channel 24. I still have the antenna tower up outside. It's 60 feet, though I have the segments under the house to make it 90 if I had really wanted to. We used to have the directional controls hooked directly into the TV itself, so that it would automatically adjust its heading to best receive each channel. All of our channels would come in crystal clear from well over 200 miles away. It probably also helped that we live on top of one of the tallest ridges in the county.

I've been toying with the idea of hooking my router up to the tower, actually. Maybe I could canvas the entire property with wifi then. Of course, I'd need a different antenna. Only the tower itself would really be usable.

[Ceric]

The tvs had a seperate dial for channels over 13.

As I recall, the only channel we ever had that high was PBS. I'm thinking that it actually came in as Channel 24. I still have the antenna tower up outside. It's 60 feet, though I have the segments under the house to make it 90 if I had really wanted to. We used to have the directional controls hooked directly into the TV itself, so that it would automatically adjust its heading to best receive each channel. All of our channels would come in crystal clear from well over 200 miles away. It probably also helped that we live on top of one of the tallest ridges in the county.

I've been toying with the idea of hooking my router up to the tower, actually. Maybe I could canvas the entire property with wifi then. Of course, I'd need a different antenna. Only the tower itself would really be usable.

How it broke down with where I was is that NBC, ABC, CBS, and PBS where the one dial and higher up was Fox and WB.

[Morari]

Fox is Channel 11 'round these parts. Everything else was below that, with ABC being Channel 8. I can't say for sure what CBS and NBC were. We didn't get WB for the longest time. I only ever really recall watching Buffy on it, anyway. It might have been a higher-up channel though.

[Ceric]

Fox was 43 and WB was 20 in Knoxville.

[bustin98]

Wait, you guys were still using those old tvs when Fox and WB came into existance? I thought I was behind by not having a VHS player until 1989...

[Mop it up]

Fox could be whatever channel I wanted it to be, because I had to tune it in myself using the little nobs next to each number.

Whenever I say reel-to-reel player, people think I'm talking about something that's as real as real.

[Morari]

Wait, you guys were still using those old tvs when Fox and WB came into existance? I thought I was behind by not having a VHS player until 1989...

I was still using that old TV until about a year ago. The antenna however hasn't seen any use in years.

[NWR_insanolord]

The first thing shouldn't be an "I'm old" moment unless you mean "older than 21."

I don't drink, but don't most beers have twist off caps anymore?

Mostly just the bigger breweries do that. As a craft beer snob, most of what I drink requires an opener. So if you have taste, you're going to need to know how to operate a bottle opener.

[Ceric]

Wait, you guys were still using those old tvs when Fox and WB came into existance? I thought I was behind by not having a VHS player until 1989...

To tell you how it was until 2005 my Dad was still using that TV and it didn't even have Coaxial.  TO hook up the NES we had an antenna connector to coaxial adapter.

[UncleBob]

The first thing shouldn't be an "I'm old" moment unless you mean "older than 21."

I don't drink, but don't most beers have twist off caps anymore?

Mostly just the bigger breweries do that. As a craft beer snob, most of what I drink requires an opener. So if you have taste, you're going to need to know how to operate a bottle opener.

I'm guessing that if she does drink, she probably drinks the cheap stuff...

[BlackNMild2k1]

It all probably comes out of a can, a plastic bottle or a bag in a box.

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