[ExI] this is only a test...

spike spike at rainier66.com
Thu Apr 4 22:15:59 UTC 2013


>>... Do TV stations have test patterns anymore?  Or is anyone here besides 
> me old enough to remember when TV stations used to quit broadcasting 
> about 0200 and start again around 0500, with nothing on the screen but a
test pattern?
>
> spike

-----Original Message-----
>...Mike Dougherty
Subject: Re: [ExI] this is only a test...

>...test pattern?!?  All we had was snow...

Snow?  Luxury!  I remember when they invented snow.  It was one of the later
innovations in TV.

>...I used to get scared when they played the national anthem before it went
to static...

Ja, I remember that too.  Francis Scott Key was an associate of mine, one of
the locals.  We lads cheered him on when his song made it into the Top 40 on
Kasem Coast to Coast.  Then not long after the Redcoats went away, it was
declared the national anthem, and we all gave him a pat on the back.  Foin
lad was Key, foin lad indeed.

>... like "It's over? what does this even mean?"

It was back in the days before internet, when we had an actual attention
span.

spike






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