Shoutout to Mr. and Mrs. “E” for their upstairs and downstairs VCRs always set to the correct time.
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Shoutout to Mr. and Mrs. “E” for their upstairs and downstairs VCRs always set to the correct time.
Related Question: What is the 2025 equivalent to this?
No, VCR blinked if you coughed. Those things were far more sensitive.
Plus there were still a lot of analog electric clocks on stoves during the VCR era.
And don’t get me started on the microwave.
Screw setting all those clocks whenever the power burps. If you ever lived where this occurs almost daily, you’d understand.
Plus, setting a VCR clock was always a pain in the ass.
It knows what it did!
Some were, some weren’t. I remember we had 3 different VCRs, and it was always different.
Oldest one. It had a row of like 30 buttons behind a pull-down panel. You held 'Clock" until the hours started flashing, used the up and down buttons to set the hour. Press clock again to switch to the minutes (same arrow keys to adjust), then one final press of “Clock” to lock it in. Literally the same way my oven clock is set.
Just press “Menu” then “Clock” and type the time in on the remote.
Newest: It was automatic. It picked up the time from the PBS channel and set itself.