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IcyPeas

(22,610 posts) Wed Oct 23, 2024, 09:10 PM Oct 23

TV Guide Cover, October 23-29, 1954: Walt Disney

$0.15 cents. Keyboards don't even have a cent sign any more.

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TV Guide Cover, October 23-29, 1954: Walt Disney (Original Post) IcyPeas Oct 23 OP

Older typewriters often didn't have cent sign or a dollar sign. PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 23 #1

Which control knob is Donald Duck adjusting? Frasier Balzov Oct 23 #2

I thought it was a donut 🍩 😄 IcyPeas Oct 23 #3

I think that would be the On/Off power switch (and sometimes volume) JoseBalow Oct 24 #4

PoindexterOglethorpe

(26,727 posts)

1. Older typewriters often didn't have cent sign or a dollar sign.

Reply to IcyPeas (Original post)

Wed Oct 23, 2024, 09:18 PM

Oct 23

You'd type a "c", then backspace and put in a "/" . Same with a dollar sign, only starting with an "s".

Sometimes it's fun to be old.

Frasier Balzov

(3,481 posts)

2. Which control knob is Donald Duck adjusting?

Reply to IcyPeas (Original post)

Wed Oct 23, 2024, 09:47 PM

Oct 23

On that 1954 television set?

IcyPeas

(22,610 posts)

3. I thought it was a donut 🍩 😄

Reply to Frasier Balzov (Reply #2)

Wed Oct 23, 2024, 10:39 PM

Oct 23

JoseBalow

(5,138 posts)

4. I think that would be the On/Off power switch (and sometimes volume)

Reply to Frasier Balzov (Reply #2)

Thu Oct 24, 2024, 12:05 AM

Oct 24

I remember a smaller button you would pull out to turn on the TV, and push it back in to turn it off. It also sometimes acted as the volume knob when you turned it - you'd pull the knob out and and turn it to adjust the volume, then wait while the TV warmed up. Some of them you would turn and it would click on and off and there was a separate volume knob, but I remember the combo was common for a while.

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