It literally works the same as it does now. At least, to the user. The differences are entirely behind the scenes and wouldn’t matter. 🤦♂️
Pull the button you want to “program” out, then push it all the way back in.
Yeah and the preset mechanism was mechanical, which is pretty wild.
That was the fascinating part. Only by actually using one you could feel it pull to the station via a literal string inside. Apparently (some/most) auto sunroofs work in a similar way, and you do not want to break that cord.
Apparently (some/most) auto sunroofs work in a similar way
That’s how your normal automatic car windows work, too.
Spin one of the doodads until the station you wish for is properly locked
Yeah but how to you lock the station into a specific button
You don’t… Even when it’s “programmed” it’ll still slide a bit short or long & you have to find tune it.
Source: I’m an old fart
You don’t…
You absolutely…
Even when it’s “programmed” it’ll still slide a bit short or long & you have to find tune it.
OK yeah fair. Especially if you play with the buttons a lot like trying to press them both at the same time.
It’s been decades, but… you press the button, spin to the station, then release the button?
Am I remembering correctly or should I check into the home now?
Kids don’t even use radio. They don’t know what stations even are. Mine don’t even know what live TV is.
Tell them it’s like a livestream but all the time
Trick question: none of the stations are worth listening to.
MILLENNIALS BAD
Millennials probably the last generation that will remember (vaguely at least) things like vcr’s, cassette/cd-dvd and floppy disks. Millennials were positioned in an in-between time of rapid tech advancement.
Manual? Kids today would probably need a YouTube tutorial.
“Hey scuzbits! It’s me, Scuz! Today on ‘old ass cars’ we are looking at how to program this OLD ASS car radio. But first SMASH that subscribe button and ring the bell!”
“And now to our sponsor NordVPN. You want to listen to a station but the signal is too weak?”
You don’t need an online manual when there’s an in glovebox manual.
You don’t need a manual at all - you just push the buttons in farther than usual, or pull them out instead of in depending upon the model.
How did you know without the manual? I used to read the manual cover to cover many times because what else are you going to do on a car ride?
You mess with it until you figure it out.
Doesn’t matter what you do or don’t program.
When you push a button, you’ll hear right-wing propagandaBack in the day our AM stations had local programming. Mostly call in talk shows that covered issues both local and far. The hosts would describe themselves as conservative but they were way more tame than the shit today. Then Rush Limbaugh went national.
There is only two flavors of AM radio I’ve ever heard (having been born in 1985):
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Christian talk
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24/7 Traffic reporting
I would have liked to have been around when AM radio was exactly as described by the song AM Radio by Everclear.
That’s a catchy tune for sure but it’s odd to hear someone being nostalgic about it. It wasn’t unusual for someone to say “sorry but all I have is am jams” if they gave you a lift and their radio didn’t have FM (AM being pronounced phonetically so it rhymes with jams). AM radio was more known for oldies, pre 60’s music. Also the signal faded when you drove under a bridge. For reference I graduated in '84
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NPR is pretty great for left leaning media.
This is the dumbest thing I’ve seen…well I was gonna say all day, but I just read about florida sex ed not teaching sex ed and there are levels.
Bro you can just Google it, it’s alright to ask for help
A was never able to do it correctly :(
Hey old farts, no hate, but the reason kids these days don’t know how to use old technology is because it’s not practical anymore. We’ve simple moved on to better things as a society and no longer need to bang rocks together to make fire. Now this progressions may not be in all cases good, since it has, in part, atomized our society and divided us against ourselves, but don’t pretend like spin dials were the peak of ergonomic design. Sometimes you gotta admit that just because you grew up with it, doesn’t mean it was better than what we have today.
Have you used a volume knob, an ipod, bmw idrive or its clones? Spin dials still are the peak of economic design…
Removal of physical dials in cars is one really good example of progress in tech causing worse design for the sake of cost savings and aesthetics.
Yeah cars have been victim to a bunch of over modernizations, I’ll say that, otherwise though I’m generally just trying to say the mentality of “these kids can’t use a ____” is kind of nonsensical.
Agreed 😅 I was only refuting the sub point about knobs, as thats a pet peeve of mine 😅
Of course I can program it. I have no idea how to do so right now, but if you gave it to me I could fiddle with it for a few minutes and figure it out.
Websites used to be like this. I hate modernity.
