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[GET OFF MY LAWN POST] 2800 bucks got you a 21 inch "SOLID STATE" TV

Hugo Drax

Hugo Drax

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1971 inflation adjusted dollars (500 back then) = about 2800 bucks today.

And only 3 networks ABC/CBS/NBC back then. No Kardashians or Jersey Shore back then they had to pay professionals to act out scenes and shit and writers to write shit up for the shows.

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Less than that gets you a 70 inch LCD today.


Get off my lawn.
 
Sad thing is back in 1971 things on TV were worth watching not the brain dead IQ dropping nonsense of today. D:
 
I like reading through Anand's old reviews sometimes. Cutting edge Voodoo 5 5500, $1000 for 512 MB RAM, and setting up a quad boot with win2k, winME, Linux, and BeOS.

🙂
 
Even more recently, my mom paid 8000 for her 52 inch Samsung plasma about 7 years ago. It just died this year, and the replacement was $1500 for a new plasma of the same size, with way more features.
 
Wyndru said:
Even more recently, my mom paid 8000 for her 52 inch Samsung plasma about 7 years ago. It just died this year, and the replacement was $1500 for a new plasma of the same size, with way more features.
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Haha and they make plasma's that size for 550 bucks now... with probably the same features as the 8k one.
 
Back in the days 7-11's had these tube tester stations with replacement tubes tubes on the bottom. You bring your tubes, open up a manual to match the tube number to the knob settings on the console (there were several knobs to set up) to test the tube. Run the test and then if it fails get the tube you need from the bottom section and pay for it at the 7-11. The center of the console had a big ass analog meter with red,yellow and green.
 
Hugo Drax said:
Back in the days 7-11's had these tube tester stations with replacement tubes tubes on the bottom.
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I remember back in the 70's 7-11 only had 4 Slurpee flavors. Coke, Sprite, Grape, Orange. And the machines were behind the counter, so the guy behind the counter poured your Slurpee for you.
 
My CS professor told us that in the mid 80's, the IT department bought a brand new IBM PC (with dual floppy drives and amber monitor) for $3,500 back then. Talk about progress.

I wonder what kind of TV, PC, and tech stuffs will bein in 20 to 30 years from now.
 
and I bet no female actors back then either. Only guys dressed as women. I wonder how Baywatch would be back then.
 
Rubycon said:
Sad thing is back in 1971 things on TV were worth watching not the brain dead IQ dropping nonsense of today. D:
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maybe you've forgotten all the trash they used to show on tv...😉

Back in the day even elvis made dozens of movies....that was the trash environment of entertainment.

very conveniently forgotten😀
 
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silverpig said:
I like reading through Anand's old reviews sometimes. Cutting edge Voodoo 5 5500, $1000 for 512 MB RAM, and setting up a quad boot with win2k, winME, Linux, and BeOS.

🙂
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512mb of bleeding edge RAMBUS RAM. My iPhone 4S probably outperforms it.

As for TVs, my mom used to tell me the old TVs had tubes. Me being little, I thought tubes meant that the pictures actually flowed down a pipe to the screen.

We got our first "big screen" in 1990. It was a 27'', which was massive at the time, and expensive. Lord knows how much my parents paid for it. Looking at my 27'' LCD I have now, that size screen feels so small.
 
cKGunslinger said:
Not particularly..

All My Children
Partridge Family
Green Acres

:hmm:
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One out of the tree was worth watching.

All in the Family was great. Carroll O'Connor brought Archie Bunker to life and also brought many of the social issues of the day into the light.

He hated the part, being the liberal that he was, but believed that it was necessary to address many of the ills of our country.
(no one expected the show to make it through the first season, let alone become the hit that it was for many years.)
 
I like how they designed TV's to actually be easily serviceable back then. Now, practically any issue on a 2 year old LCD TV would be more expensive to fix than getting a new set.
 
BoomerD said:
One out of the tree was worth watching.

All in the Family was great. Carroll O'Connor brought Archie Bunker to life and also brought many of the social issues of the day into the light.

He hated the part, being the liberal that he was, but believed that it was necessary to address many of the ills of our country.
(no one expected the show to make it through the first season, let alone become the hit that it was for many years.)
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All in the Family was great.

Of course, I posted All My Children..
 
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