To: NormsRevenge
It sure beat a notched piece of PVC pipe.
2 posted on
02/16/2007 3:14:57 PM PST by
Eclectica
(Ask your MD about Evolution. Please!)
To: NormsRevenge
Ahh, the good old days...
3 posted on
02/16/2007 3:22:14 PM PST by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: NormsRevenge
Rumor has it , he also did early research on the 'mouse'.
My batteries should last as long as his did. -)
4 posted on
02/16/2007 3:24:49 PM PST by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ......)
To: NormsRevenge
He was best known for his 1956 Zenith Space Command remote control...Hmmmm....my parents were pretty good at hiding modern technology from me. I was still standing at the set turning the tuner and adjusting the rabbit ears in the 70's. It wasn't a major chore, considering there were only 3 channels back then.
5 posted on
02/16/2007 3:28:18 PM PST by
randog
(What the...?!)
To: NormsRevenge
To think he might have made it to 100 if he'd just gotten a bit of exercise getting off the couch and walking 6 steps.
9 posted on
02/16/2007 3:40:06 PM PST by
mtbopfuyn
(I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
To: NormsRevenge
10 posted on
02/16/2007 3:53:27 PM PST by
xcamel
(Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
To: NormsRevenge
When I was growing up in the 1960s, my parents had a Zenith and the remote control weighed about two pounds. All it did was change channels. You still had to get off the couch to adjust the volume or turn it off. I think it took like four size D batteries.
Nevertheless it put my parents on the cutting edge at the time and raised their social pecking order in the neighborhood.
17 posted on
02/16/2007 4:17:12 PM PST by
SamAdams76
(I'm 32 days from outliving Steve Irwin)
To: NormsRevenge
He once described himself as a "technical gadfly."
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