When did your family first get...

[VintageMike]

We had about a 27 inch floor until color TV for as long as I can remember. We actually had what was the precusor to cable in the area, WHT. You paid I think $15 a month for a box for one movei channel. I think we got real cable in 82 or 83. My first video game system were all second hand. My best friend gave me a pong until when he got an Atari and my cousin gave me something called a Studio 2 when his family got an intellivsion. Finally I think 1983 my parents caved and got me an Atari 2600.

[madmarva]

My parents got their first color TV for the first Super Bowl because my dad is a big Packers fan. My mom would soon be pregnant with me.

That TV lasted until the summer of 1977, when we got our first TV with a remote. I remember watching Batman, Brady Bunch and Star Trek many afternoons on that set that summer, as well as commercials for Star Wars. I also remember watching the announcements of the deaths of Elvis and John Lennon on that TV, as well as the Jonestown massacre, the Hostage situation in Iran, The assassination attempt on Reagan, Aransas' blowout of highly favored Oklahoma I the 1978 Orange Bowl when Lou Holtz was the Hogs coach as well as the Razorbacks run to the Final Four with Eddie Sutton's Triplets in 1978.

I remember watching Tic Tac Dough and so wanting to appear on the show and win a VCR.

We got cable in the fall fall of 1979. That's when ESPN had wrestling on Thursday nights and Nickelodeon had a show where It panned and scanned 1960s DC comics, with Wagner's "Flight of the Valkeries" as intro music.

My brother gave my parents a Betamax for their anniversary about a year before the format died, lol. They never learned to use it anyway. I got an Atari 2600 in 1981 and an Atari 5200 the Christmas of the year it came out, just before the first video game craze died.

I've never been a car or telephone guy, so I don't recall much about them or any upgrades.

[jds1911a1]

This thread was worth it alone for John mentioning Prism. I loved watching Prism back in the day. How else could see what was going on at the Spectrum but viewing it through a Prism

Glad i'm not the only one who remembered it so fondly, other people had HBo which got movies faster but on we had Satruday night Wrestling (but I think this was a few days after the matches were live) and boxing, flyers hockey and the phillies games so I loved it.

Prism was great and like cinemax on a satruday night you could sneak back downstairs to see those "special" films with boobies

Mad marva - that's ok your family may have always had "modern" phone service I am just old enough to remember when not everyone had a separate phone line (see the Doris Day film Pillow talk to see what a party line was like)

I am a car guy but my parents never had "cool" cars I only remember the pintos becuase it was a big deal for them. the whole family went to the dealership and waited whille mom or dad took test rides, and seeing the brochures on the table as they debated what to get, it just left and indelible mark even if the cars themselves weren't all that memorable (except for the catching fire bit)

[z3zep]

new car -- 1974 Mustang

My memory is fuzzy about the exact years, but we were pretty late to get stuff, didn't have much money.

color tv -- around 1977 ?? we had a bunch of black and white tvs and only 1 color

touch tone phone -- hmm whenever it was first allowed that you could buy phones and not rent them from Ma Bell?

vhs - 1987

cable tv -- 1992? had to watch MTV at friend's house all through the 80s