You had to empty the bit bucket once in a while.
this post was submitted on 16 Mar 2024
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I had to fast forward or rewind a cassette tape to a specific time to play a game in the computer.
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Yeah I remember getting all excited the day we had a TV with a RCA/AV jack and thought, damn I'm going all kinds of hi-def now!
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I actually know what this means, from getting my mom’s Atari to work on my grandmother’s TV
I think it was channel 2 for that one though, idk. We switched to using the flatscreen because of the annoying high pitched noise. (To the annoyance of all retro gamers who read this)
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Video games involved putting a sheet of acetate over the b&w tv screen and then drawing with a wax pencil where the dashed line appears (Winky Dink ruled - and don’t forget to put the acetate on the screen or Dad will get mad).
You used to have to print out a document and then scan it into another machine that would use landlines to send it to another printer so someone, somewhere else, could have the document.
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