Remember the day you got your first Closed Captioning Decoder?

I can't remember but we had brown box with red number.. I think it must be late 80's-early 90's when my family lived in a trailer park... I was maybe 8 or 9 years old. I will have to ask my mom when I see her again...
 
dkf747 said:
CC 2 sometime around 1885 or so. I was glad to ave it, but didn't watch much TV then.
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:shock: You meant 1985 and not 1885 ? :rofl:

( Actually, it does say alots about technology for Deafies in 100 years :) :thumb: )
 
Thank you!

I want to thank everyone who posted their story!!! Please feel free to continue posting to this thread if you haven't posted your experience yet. My project is not due until March 1st so there is still plenty of time!!!

Thanks Again!!

Linda
 
I remmy i got mine for xmas in 1981.. the big brown box. I never forgot how many times i would have to walk up and flip the dial that makes clicking sounds like cliiiick cliiiick cliiiick... until i got tv built in cc.. gave the box to my grandparents since they were going deaf to due old age, it ended up going to salvation army I think....
 
Caption decoder

I rarely watched TV so I was unaware of decoders until about 1987, when I purchased mine (Sears catalog) it took me a while to get it hooked up properly. If I recall properly, I was using a cable input with a VCR for my TV, and using the decoder really complicated the installation. :confused:

But I recall feeling really proud of myself when it was finally working, and during the last two weeks I have been setting up a wireless home network for my three computers...when I get everything operational I am going to think back to 20 years ago when such a simple hookup seemed really complex.
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Thanks for bringing back the memory, and yes I still have the decoder today.
 
When I first got my decoder, I was excited. I started watching movies and television shows with captioning. Heh!
 
i got my first one as a built in CC in the tv -- i think the brand name was Zenith -- got that in 1980 (i think was the year it came out) as a birthday gift from my grandma -- LOVED it -- that TV actually survived til the early 2000s when it pretty much died -- got the CC box in the late 80s if i recall right -- definately was thrilled!
 
My first CC decoder was Telecaption 3000 donated from KARE-11 tv station/Jaycee Charity and delivered to D.E.A.F store in 1988's to all low income deaf viewers to receive a free Telecaption 3000 decoder. My TC 3000 decoder don't work and retired it, I have 25" Zenith television with CC build-in since 1996.
 
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