Thread 509394469 - /pol/ [Archived: 552 hours ago]

Anonymous ID: 1nppHCWIAustralia
7/3/2025, 3:07:39 PM No.509394469
clockradio
clockradio
md5: a7b0d2b2e88455556f951c9abfb7c257๐Ÿ”
Is there any technology from the 70s, 80s, 90s, that (((they've))) forgotten about that/pol/ still uses?

>This bad boy has never let me down
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Anonymous ID: /WoFwSnk
7/3/2025, 3:10:08 PM No.509394637
>>509394469 (OP)
I still use your mom
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Anonymous ID: Zn1/cSSFUnited States
7/3/2025, 3:16:42 PM No.509395008
>>509394469 (OP)
i still use an iphone 8, i also use a hand crank butter churn to make my own butter
Anonymous ID: anrt2M6hAustralia
7/3/2025, 3:23:28 PM No.509395413
>>509394469 (OP)
I think 99% of the things in my house are still from when Aus use to manufacture shit.

Radio, fridge, freezer, washing machine, toaster, kettle, microwave, car etc

Had to have the electric motor on the washing machine re-wound, fridge re-gassed and new seals, but other than that this shit just keeps chugging along and it's outlived all the stuff my parents replaced it with when they gave it to me kek
Anonymous ID: rDfA0Zg1United States
7/3/2025, 3:29:31 PM No.509395771
>>509394469 (OP)
My 20s working life was spent waking up to these and just beating the fuck out of it with my fist to get the damn snooze button to work
Bad memories looking at these
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Anonymous ID: jU+dhF53Australia
7/3/2025, 3:30:56 PM No.509395852
>>509394469 (OP)
I still have my panasonic alarm clock -
had it since the late 90s.
still works.
buttons are starting to go though :(
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Anonymous ID: bJgpys7pUnited States
7/3/2025, 3:32:19 PM No.509395918
>>509394469 (OP)

iPod, zune, Motorola Razor, kazaa
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Lemonmoder ID: 7DVzT2joUnited States
7/3/2025, 3:32:29 PM No.509395931
image
image
md5: fb0add5149a4d957f8e8ac1bc12f9d1b๐Ÿ”
>>509394469 (OP)
My set is technically new, but antenna ears for free TV. Genuinely feels like itโ€™s illegal but no, itโ€™s completely free to access. Idk how they havenโ€™t shut this down yet (actual pic of mine)
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Anonymous ID: 7OKK5aJ5United States
7/3/2025, 3:33:28 PM No.509395994
>>509395771
>>509395852
pol is a retirement home no wonder its filled with shitty takes, you're all boomer fucks
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Anonymous ID: ZXp6N+WwUnited States
7/3/2025, 3:34:15 PM No.509396034
>>509394469 (OP)
Same actually, I use a GE alarm clock and turn off phone at like 8pm
Anonymous ID: jU+dhF53Australia
7/3/2025, 3:34:21 PM No.509396042
futurama-lol
futurama-lol
md5: c23b3fed215bc7468024da194bba75dd๐Ÿ”
>>509395994
owning something that lasts.
SHAME!
Anonymous ID: ZXp6N+WwUnited States
7/3/2025, 3:34:59 PM No.509396096
>>509395931
cute frens
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Anonymous ID: p+6XPT1vFinland
7/3/2025, 3:35:07 PM No.509396104
>>509394469 (OP)
You can just use your iPhone as an alarm clock now
Anonymous ID: 7bk/nC8yMexico
7/3/2025, 3:35:18 PM No.509396111
am I the only person who thinks smartphones are fucking amazing?
Anonymous ID: qCGgoAxITurkey
7/3/2025, 3:35:27 PM No.509396125
Bepe-Pointing
Bepe-Pointing
md5: 64a045860d94c1d46c899b46c66ae7ed๐Ÿ”
>>509395931
Guvment here requires TV stations to broadcast via terrestrial antenna, at least in one area.
I bet its some stupid regulation like that there, too.
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Anonymous ID: fMsOkFmNUnited States
7/3/2025, 3:37:08 PM No.509396218
56486575
56486575
md5: 35ad6e65217a76b244935f22f44258ff๐Ÿ”
>>509394469 (OP)
i took this from my dad's place after he died
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Anonymous ID: iiGh6rjXUnited States
7/3/2025, 3:37:22 PM No.509396223
>>509394469 (OP)

Yes, I still use my Talkboy to record memos for myself so I don't forget anything.
Anonymous ID: jU+dhF53Australia
7/3/2025, 3:37:53 PM No.509396251
>>509396218
wow, thats nice.
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Anonymous ID: 7WJUL7+lUnited States
7/3/2025, 3:38:17 PM No.509396276
>>509394469 (OP)
I've had a couple of these, although the display was green not red. You could set it so that the radio would wake you up instead of the beep. This sound right here takes me back in time immediately: https://youtu.be/aXieXlAbpQg
Anonymous ID: eoXcL9G/United States
7/3/2025, 3:38:17 PM No.509396277
IMG_6886
IMG_6886
md5: aa60d5c3b47ad6543ef8e5b0a269f5ae๐Ÿ”
>>509394469 (OP)
Iโ€™ve had this clock since stumbling upon it 17 years ago for $1 in a thrift store. I enjoy hearing the light ticking of its gears throughout the night; I have a 50โ€™s W. Germany Semca portable winding clock that is nice and loud, occasionally I use it when traveling or wanting to hear a louder rhythmic click.

The old GE keeps damn near perfect time, Iโ€™ve never had to set it between daylight savings time changes. And itโ€™s alarm is LOUD.
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Anonymous ID: Oy+QplsWUnited States
7/3/2025, 3:38:23 PM No.509396282
3f4e5afad69016a6c4b3c3b8e2849949
3f4e5afad69016a6c4b3c3b8e2849949
md5: 7bf410bac237a0c1144405c77fd83405๐Ÿ”
>>509394469 (OP)
I use a old flip clock in my bedroom. It's nice, you can hear the gears and everything working if it's quiet enough.
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Anonymous ID: 22Z20/I1Australia
7/3/2025, 3:38:25 PM No.509396283
>>509394469 (OP)
Smoke signal
Anonymous ID: fMsOkFmNUnited States
7/3/2025, 3:38:53 PM No.509396315
>>509396251
it's called a sony dream machine, it's pretty comfy
was very dusty when i got it but a toothbrush and some rubbing alcohol brough it back fast
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Anonymous ID: 1nppHCWIAustralia
7/3/2025, 3:39:14 PM No.509396333
>>509395918
You can still use Kazaa?
Anonymous ID: 7WJUL7+lUnited States
7/3/2025, 3:39:16 PM No.509396337
>>509396277
>>509396282
Wild
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Anonymous ID: fMsOkFmNUnited States
7/3/2025, 3:40:50 PM No.509396444
>>509396282
those flips ones are really neat, i think i have one in a box somewhere
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Anonymous ID: ZXp6N+WwUnited States
7/3/2025, 3:41:19 PM No.509396471
>>509396218
can you look up the model name? id love one
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Anonymous ID: jU+dhF53Australia
7/3/2025, 3:41:45 PM No.509396495
s-l1600
s-l1600
md5: edd840dbd0b071762d2ed1f5243f5bd4๐Ÿ”
>>509396315
awesome.
got an eye on this one atm.
Anonymous ID: ZXp6N+WwUnited States
7/3/2025, 3:41:54 PM No.509396504
>>509396315
>>509396471

Oops missed your follow up thanks anon
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Anonymous ID: eoXcL9G/United States
7/3/2025, 3:42:29 PM No.509396540
IMG_4234
IMG_4234
md5: 6df0fa87d4b0506003ebae50a3558205๐Ÿ”
>>509395852
If you feel like it, refurbing them is much the same as fixing the buttons on a worn out remote- just replace the conductive material by gluing on foil or even heavily coating it with pencil lead.

I use this magnavox for my N64/Super/NES
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Anonymous ID: 71lTwVY5Australia
7/3/2025, 3:43:03 PM No.509396575
>>509394469 (OP)
I used to have one of those too. The loud buzzer alarm was about the only thing that'd wke me up
Anonymous ID: 9ugzPKXkUnited States
7/3/2025, 3:43:31 PM No.509396603
>>509396251
Fucking hell everyone hereโ€™s gotten so goddamn polite.
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Anonymous ID: jU+dhF53Australia
7/3/2025, 3:43:43 PM No.509396616
>>509396471
Sony Dream Machine ICF-C400 Dual Alarm Clock Radio Wood Grain
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Anonymous ID: UJUld12qUnited States
7/3/2025, 3:43:55 PM No.509396626
1728559352698391
1728559352698391
md5: 6bc64b96be89f79b3acc3a564e3a8557๐Ÿ”
>>509394469 (OP)
With an accelerator card from mac effects and wifi thanks to a blue scsi v2 I can browse gopher holes and telnet into bbses like its 1990.
if this was the limit of computer technology I would be fine,
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Anonymous ID: fMsOkFmNUnited States
7/3/2025, 3:44:11 PM No.509396639
>>509396504
i think it's a Sony ICF-C400, from the 80s
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Anonymous ID: Oy+QplsWUnited States
7/3/2025, 3:44:13 PM No.509396642
kilroy3gall-1666208819602
kilroy3gall-1666208819602
md5: 764fb71520e92fb3a135a79842628151๐Ÿ”
>>509396444
You should use it. Being able to actually hear the mechanisms working should be advertised as a feature for any household items sold for the future.
Clocks and watches are the easiest things to go for when looking for this. It's not a watch from an earlier decade, but I wear an automatic watch for the same reason.
Anonymous ID: Nw1OV0hGUnited States
7/3/2025, 3:44:19 PM No.509396647
>>509394469 (OP)
Old alarm clocks are great. When it comes to alarms being less convenient to change is good. Fins one where setting the time is as unintutive and annoying as possible ans the only time your likely be fiddling with your times on that bitch is twice a year if it doesn't have a switch for daylight savings. It's not going to die overnight because you crashed out forgetting to plug your phone in, it's probably got battery backups if you lose power, and it's way louder so you can set it well out of reach where even to hit snooze you've got to drag your bones out of bed. It's a simple little thing but if your undisciplined and unorganized using an old alarm instead of your phone can legitimately help you get your shit together and improve your life. Old refrigerators and freezers are great too. Elegent simplicity there.
Anonymous ID: ofBC9DqxUnited States
7/3/2025, 3:44:34 PM No.509396668
1000006261
1000006261
md5: f647c9b3551a2379cccd277a3f2bcd7d๐Ÿ”
>>509394637
Anonymous ID: eoXcL9G/United States
7/3/2025, 3:44:38 PM No.509396673
IMG_8346
IMG_8346
md5: 5046892c330c7faf0fc3d82624c30c37๐Ÿ”
>>509396337
Lmao that is wild.

My radio/electronics workstation is mostly 80โ€™s and 90โ€™s equipment.
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Anonymous ID: jU+dhF53Australia
7/3/2025, 3:44:48 PM No.509396680
>>509396540
sweet.

>>509396603
lol
Anonymous ID: jU+dhF53Australia
7/3/2025, 3:45:25 PM No.509396702
>>509396673
AND its on wheels.
glorious.
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Anonymous ID: ZXp6N+WwUnited States
7/3/2025, 3:47:08 PM No.509396812
>>509396616
>>509396639

Thanks alarmbros!
Anonymous ID: uUF2fxLdDenmark
7/3/2025, 3:47:16 PM No.509396820
250844898_202199938604368_2454019074825180384_n
250844898_202199938604368_2454019074825180384_n
md5: eabadb4d837e67022f323b4c67dffd72๐Ÿ”
>>509394469 (OP)
>I'm totally outjewing the jew with my archaic clock radio
omg stunning and brave
Lemonmoder ID: cDS5C9NRUnited States
7/3/2025, 3:50:00 PM No.509396980
>>509396096
Thanks :D
>>509396125
Hey Iโ€™m not complaining. Antenna got me through some tough times when my internet was out. Real great and underrated!
Anonymous ID: anrt2M6hAustralia
7/3/2025, 3:50:17 PM No.509396996
1732080465422157
1732080465422157
md5: 38698023c09a78e9b417b38741d44189๐Ÿ”
>>509396282
These are so fucking satisfying to use, very tactile. Speaking of my grandmother still has a rotary phone with a dedicated little bench/seat arrangement kind like pic related.

Rotary phone was peak phone, you still had the ability to ring people on the other side of the country, but you weren't beholden to it or carrying it around in your pocket 24/7 and you actually had to learn peoples numbers.
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Anonymous ID: ZXp6N+WwUnited States
7/3/2025, 3:51:42 PM No.509397088
>>509396996
The way voices sounded in those was totally different. It felt like the perfect was there in the room next to you, you could even hear breathing sometimes if I remember right. Cellphone calls feel dead, like robot piss.
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Anonymous ID: ElsRD9sKCanada
7/3/2025, 3:53:18 PM No.509397183
>>509394469 (OP)
Of course but I will not tell you about it. I know all too well about Americans and their Johnny come lately always follow (((the crowd))) locust like natures. I don't want you big mouths and scum fucks to mess those things and hobbies up for me too with your drama queen bullshit and stupidity. So fuck off and just do what the jew tell you, you sheepy fags
Anonymous ID: rDfA0Zg1United States
7/3/2025, 3:53:56 PM No.509397212
>>509396218
Sovl
Anonymous ID: eoXcL9G/United States
7/3/2025, 3:54:15 PM No.509397236
IMG_6887
IMG_6887
md5: b6a908ac06ec1541b7b8daf4055529df๐Ÿ”
>>509396626
Anon, is that you with your many IIโ€™s, SE/30โ€™s, and even a IIfx?
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Anonymous ID: PavHZDVIUnited States
7/3/2025, 3:54:49 PM No.509397270
>>509396603
Right, faggot.
Anonymous ID: jW1CO+q0United States
7/3/2025, 3:54:59 PM No.509397287
>>509394469 (OP)
>Power goes out
Sure some have batteries some don't. I use that as well as phone for days I need to get up on time. Usually just phone.
Anonymous ID: ZMTUB7P0Australia
7/3/2025, 3:55:49 PM No.509397333
My grandfather was a builder in the 50s. I have his circular saw. It's a beast.
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Anonymous ID: rDfA0Zg1United States
7/3/2025, 3:56:07 PM No.509397354
>>509396673
>>509397236
>>509396626


Post boomer battlestations
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Anonymous ID: XSNW4rJQUnited States
7/3/2025, 3:56:19 PM No.509397366
>>509395931
Because it's the free propoganda machine anon.
Anonymous ID: eoXcL9G/United States
7/3/2025, 3:59:47 PM No.509397561
IMG_2947
IMG_2947
md5: f0c9f67ac431bd64304c075bb98913cd๐Ÿ”
>>509396702
Lmao you should have seen me taking that TV cart from my old workplace, it was hell getting it out without being seen. They were going to have it hauled off for scrap and had a strict policy about letting people take shit home. So I held it against my chest by the top of it, and ran. LOL thinking about it.

My daily wear watch. Also have a nice Slava from the 70โ€™s and a 50โ€™s Elgin.
Anonymous ID: anrt2M6hAustralia
7/3/2025, 4:00:14 PM No.509397589
>>509397088
Checked analog phones tend to sound very warm and raw whereas digital stuff is heavily processed and filtered. It's the same when you're even just recording your voice. Record it onto something analog vs record it with your phone and the difference is insane.

>>509397333
I've still got ancestors hand tools from the late 1800's, the quality of the steel is something else, the hammers and anvils are especially good.
Anonymous ID: UJUld12qUnited States
7/3/2025, 4:02:09 PM No.509397689
>>509397236
I wish, my mac collection is as follows
>Mac SE
>iMac slot loading (with a broken case)
>Performa 6290
>G4 Mac Mini (runs NetBSD and hosts my gopher server)
NetBSD is awesome by the way real old school unix vibes. it will also run on nearly anything
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Anonymous ID: eoXcL9G/United States
7/3/2025, 4:02:18 PM No.509397705
IMG_7094
IMG_7094
md5: 9595e80100d8147712643bbd12fbd1de๐Ÿ”
>>509397354
Thatโ€™s an old ergonomic Microsoft keyboard to the left.
Anonymous ID: xYLvJiOzUnited States
7/3/2025, 4:09:37 PM No.509398123
>>509395771
Man I had an OP style alarm clock for the first 30+something years of my life and I absolutely hated it, always had terrible sleep especially if I woke up during the early morning and glanced at the time, it would induce some kind of anxiety about having to get up.
A forest fire burned down my neighborhood and I had to go without a clock for a while and I slept better and found I always just woke up naturally between 6 and 6:30 am.
Getting good sleep changed my whole life health-wise.
TLDR: Fuck alarm clocks they are unnatural
Anonymous ID: eoXcL9G/United States
7/3/2025, 4:10:20 PM No.509398171
>>509397689
I used to have a bondi blue iMac, loved that thing. I have my Apple IIc pictured above, an IBM Thinkpad 600E(PII originally, upgraded to PIII, 98SE SP3, for Half-Life/Descent/Unreal era gaming) which comes in handy often nowadays due to its built in serial port, an HP Vectra PII server I use as a firewall, and a DECmate III+ that I picked up due to its having a PDP 8e on a chip, full compatibility.
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Anonymous ID: v/8Oqp3FUnited States
7/3/2025, 4:12:11 PM No.509398304
images (99)
images (99)
md5: 782eaf6f40d023003480fe52d49bdaf7๐Ÿ”
Saws bones part like a pro.

Want to play a game?
Anonymous ID: eoXcL9G/United States
7/3/2025, 4:12:53 PM No.509398370
IMG_3954
IMG_3954
md5: 908848301c124a9e8d1192587b793686๐Ÿ”
>>509398171
Anonymous ID: UJUld12qUnited States
7/3/2025, 4:13:10 PM No.509398389
>>509398171
>DECmate III+ that I picked up due to its having a PDP 8e on a chip, full compatibility.
That is nice, very nice
I have had it in my mind to try and build one of those pdp simulators, basically a raspberry pi with a full set of lights and switches but that is way better
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Anonymous ID: yEm7GjQ6Italy
7/3/2025, 4:16:26 PM No.509398711
>>509395994
In 2025 if you're not raping and forcefully terrorizing women into giving birth and obeying you, you're pretty much a genetic dead end
Anonymous ID: eoXcL9G/United States
7/3/2025, 4:17:50 PM No.509398808
>>509398389
Columbia University mentions having run BSD on their DecMates back in the day. Itโ€™s a neat quirky system I picked up for $40 and a drive to Boston. Someday Iโ€™d like to have a proper IMSAI or Altair, but for now(and the last 17 years), Iโ€™ll dream.
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Anonymous ID: StWbFInqUnited States
7/3/2025, 4:19:32 PM No.509398910
>>509394469 (OP)
bro that's the same clock radio my dad has woken up with since before I was born. I still remember when he would set it for 1AM and listen to Art Bell in the wee hours of the morning.
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Anonymous ID: eoXcL9G/United States
7/3/2025, 4:22:01 PM No.509399054
IMG_6888
IMG_6888
md5: 6c7117873ab2e4ff64d80989942d6213๐Ÿ”
>>509398808
Reading about their Rolm dataphone network, wonder if itโ€™s still operating? As of 2010:
The CBX itself is installed on the first floor of Low Library, in the center of campus. It consists of 10 CBX and 10 PhoneMail "nodes", plus disks, tapes, terminals, etc, and the Main Distribution Frame (MDF), where all 50,000 wire pairs from the Morningside Rolm telephone jacks terminate. It is administered by the Office of Communications Services (OCS), which is part of Administrative Information Services (AIS), which formerly, together with what is now Academic Information Systems (AcIS), formed the Columbia Computer Center. [NOTE: By 2010 all these organizations and acronyms are ancient history, in the neverending rounds of reorganization and rebranding, but the equipment itself is still where it was and still operational
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Anonymous ID: 7ZmMN821United States
7/3/2025, 4:23:53 PM No.509399181
>>509394469 (OP)
before digital alarm clocks like the on in OP image.
They had "flip" card thing, that performed the same function. All the hours, and all the minutes, would flip over.
Same exact style clock radio, though.
I inherited it from my older brother.
Everything still works.
This fucker was likely built in 1970.
Try getting that lifespan out of anything made today.
Anonymous ID: UJUld12qUnited States
7/3/2025, 4:25:22 PM No.509399278
>>509399054
i wonder how much money a grey beard is going to collect when something finally goes wrong.
you hear stories about something like the bsd box that was an email server that got buried in a closet for a decade and still worked but things eventually break and when they do and are mission critical its an expensive fix
Anonymous ID: YH/Wa7t6United States
7/3/2025, 4:25:44 PM No.509399300
>>509394469 (OP)
I still have my dads general electric fake wood clock like that. Its from 1979, still runs fine and wakes me up every morning.
Anonymous ID: DpI810PiUnited States
7/3/2025, 4:27:12 PM No.509399375
>>509394469 (OP)
Yes. A 400 sbc and a A6.354 Perkins.
Anonymous ID: obCa60qAUnited States
7/3/2025, 4:27:16 PM No.509399379
1744287375248664
1744287375248664
md5: 78d8f7e28d34f9e07e5967e17ca3a9bc๐Ÿ”
Before engineered obsolescence.
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Anonymous ID: ZXp6N+WwUnited States
7/3/2025, 4:29:15 PM No.509399491
>>509398910
> bro that's the same clock radio my dad has woken up with since before I was born. I still remember when he would set it for 1AM and listen to Art Bell in the wee hours of the morning.


Unbelievable levels of life kino
Anonymous ID: JBDwNQiDFinland
7/3/2025, 4:29:35 PM No.509399510
>>509394469 (OP)
Damn jews an their
>checks notes
unability to use alarm clocks!
Anonymous ID: ZXp6N+WwUnited States
7/3/2025, 4:41:25 PM No.509400192
>>509399379
honestly just before analog buttons disappeared into touch screens
Anonymous ID: o/Mqy4wRUnited States
7/3/2025, 4:57:45 PM No.509401356
comet
comet
md5: 725df20d9ff8d5041104d4869d1444fd๐Ÿ”
i use an antenna for tv, some of the channels are based
Replies: >>509402096 >>509403059
Anonymous ID: ZXp6N+WwUnited States
7/3/2025, 5:08:03 PM No.509402096
>>509401356
Itโ€™s an untapped goldmine these days, whereas cable is now filled with โ€œpay to watchโ€ bloat channels, hundreds of them. basically advertisements.
Anonymous ID: 7WJUL7+lUnited States
7/3/2025, 5:21:27 PM No.509403059
>>509401356
Comet is about the only channel I can watch from off air antenna
Anonymous ID: lg9VZ97+Australia
7/3/2025, 5:29:46 PM No.509403702
radioclock
radioclock
md5: 13a759d151a83ec87d30fb6b20266521๐Ÿ”
>>509394469 (OP)

stole this from a hotel