16-bit? Luxury!
When I was growing up we...
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Weeel, when we was young, we had to stuff a folded matchbook cover behind the channel changer dial on the black and white, tube (that's a 'valve' in the UK) operated TV, because after a while the derned channel changer would wear out and it took a folder matchbook cover behind it just to keep it on the channel you wanted to watch. That's back when eeverybody smoked so there was plenty of matchbooks to be had.....Why, I saw the Beatles debut in the USA on the Ed Sullivan Show in '64 on a TV just like that.
.....and there was likely a lot of channel changin' goin' on that night, and that's how a lot of channel changer dials got worn out, I'm here to tell ye !
...an' nooobody had a hand-held channel changer. Ye actually had to git up and walk across the living room to change the derned channel !
You youngin's are jest spoilt !