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[AKIRA]

I remember when my dad came home in 84 or 85(I was 7yrs old) with this Atari computer that hooked to our tv. He messed with it for days trying to get it to work cause he needed it to write papers for his Aviation Electronics school, he finally gave up and let me play with it. I got it working in about 2 days, but that's because I had better motivation, I wanted to get the drawing program working so I could doodle with the joystick. Then my dad decided to become an architect so he bought a drawing tablet for our "computer", he ended up giving up on that too, put I loved that thing I think I spent more time drawing on their than I did playing the first Nintendo....

I remember hooking up video game systems using some sort of rectangular device that had two screws on one side, istting next to each other. They looked like 2 eyes. Underneath them, a round hole, that looked like a mouth. COme to think of it, it was the old style antennaes...

Anyway, the thing I was REALLY thinking about was a rectangle with a wire that had a prong at the end of it that may or may not wrap around one of those screws in the device mentioned above. The other end of the rectangular box was...I dont remember. I do remember that on this rectangle was a slide lever that chose between tv and video games.

I always wanting to be able to turn off my video game and instantly see television.

 

[danzik17]

God if I remember the type, but I think my first was a 386 running DOS and DOS-SHELL. My grandma also had a Commodore 64 that we used to mess around with and play games on - I was mad at her when she threw it out during a move.

Bigass red toggle switch on the back of the PC labeled "TURBO" > all.

 

[maniclion]

I remember hooking up video game systems using some sort of rectangular device that had two screws on one side, istting next to each other. They looked like 2 eyes. Underneath them, a round hole, that looked like a mouth. COme to think of it, it was the old style antennaes...

Anyway, the thing I was REALLY thinking about was a rectangle with a wire that had a prong at the end of it that may or may not wrap around one of those screws in the device mentioned above. The other end of the rectangular box was...I dont remember. I do remember that on this rectangle was a slide lever that chose between tv and video games.

I always wanting to be able to turn off my video game and instantly see television.

That was the converter. I remember ours was messed up so you had to jiggle the slider to get it to work.

 

[AKIRA]

Thats it!