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Subject: frequent air travelers in the 60s-early 80s, do you remember these? what are they called?


trying to find alternate angles of this particular type of pay television commonly found in airport terminals

 

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Subject: frequent air travelers in the 60s-early 80s, do you remember these? what are they called?
That's simply a coin operated TV.

 

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Subject: frequent air travelers in the 60s-early 80s, do you remember these? what are they called?
Though a quick internet search returns the technical name "Telemeter".

 

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find any pics of said 'telemeter'? all i saw was a bunch of watches

 

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Yeah, I also tried Telemetry System. "Coin operated TV" seems to work best.

 

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Subject: frequent air travelers in the 60s-early 80s, do you remember these? what are they called?
how about this? it's from a bus station, but same profanity.


 

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I remember when you could smoke on the plane.

 

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looks like they were called coin operated Tv's, or Pay per view tv's.

 

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Subject: frequent air travelers in the 60s-early 80s, do you remember these? what are they called?
im hoping i can find one to install in the 11 year old's room, i think that would be awesome and hilarious.

 

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http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/ebay-watch-coin-operated-tv-from-the-60s

 

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Subject: frequent air travelers in the 60s-early 80s, do you remember these? what are they called?
heh, if a kid has been weened on a LCD, they are probably going to bulk like crazy over a old style CRT.


Heck, I'd probably throw a hissy fit at this point at having to watch one.

 

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Subject: frequent air travelers in the 60s-early 80s, do you remember these? what are they called?
Get the old casing but replace it with newer tech... still coin operated, but update for use tongue

 

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