The 1980's
Not me Back in the 1980's we had this old 26 inch floor tv set. I can't remember the name, but it was one of those old wooden box sets. Cable TV was limited to the basic channels, and paytv was an illusion. You had to buy a set-top box in order to get those channels. In the early 80's, you could go halfway between some channels and get those tv shows. But by the mid-80's those cheats were fixed. The television set didn't have a remote, so you had to get up to change the channel. My first personal TV was was a 14 inch black and white. It was decent, but quite awful for computer graphics. I later updated to a Commodore 64-C monitor (the white one). That was a massive increase in image quality. Computer consoles and home video game units were very basic. Back then, you either had pong, Atari 2600, Intellivision, or Colecovision. Games back then were expensive. As most games were stored on cartridges, the cost was significant compared to the cheap 99 cent games. Th...
