Thread Number: 80073
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Post# 1040154 , Reply# 1   7/31/2019 at 12:55 (1,702 days old) by cuffs054 (MONTICELLO, GA)   |   | |
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Why are snooze buttons always 'odd' numbers. Like 7, 9 minutes instead of 10? |
Post# 1040161 , Reply# 2   7/31/2019 at 13:31 (1,702 days old) by kb0nes (Burnsville, MN)   |   | |
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Post# 1040163 , Reply# 4   7/31/2019 at 13:41 (1,702 days old) by IowaBear (Cedar Rapids, IA)   |   | |
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Post# 1040257 , Reply# 5   8/1/2019 at 08:35 (1,701 days old) by drhardee ( Columbia, SC)   |   | |
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When I was a boy back in the early 1970's, my father bought this Zenith alarm clock AM/FM radio for me. He thought it was high time I got myself up for school, instead of his having to whistle "reveille" at me every morning...which he still did as I inevitably overslept this alarm.
I don't know how much it cost; he bought it at the PX at Camp Darby army base in Livorno, Italy, where we were stationed at the time. It has, however, remained my constant companion and daily alarm clock for 45+ years, and it'll outlive me, I daresay. They definitely don't make 'em like this anymore!
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Post# 1040263 , Reply# 6   8/1/2019 at 09:21 (1,701 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI)   |   | |
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I will let you guess, what we actually use to wake up to:
Mind you, the one with the sunrise or sunset, was my first digital clock, with my choice of preferring rotating numbers being against my mom's better judgement, given that over time the clicking might quit working, or the small light needed to illuminate them would burn out and opening all that would make it arduous to replace, hence the LED design has lasted a very dependable more than thirty-years, with the flashlight bulb inside for the display needing only o be replaced once... Howver, the alarm is quite quirky, and it not reliably going off at the time it's set (or not at all!) has been resigned to disuse... And it as well as the time is difficult to set, as the numbers fly through at warp speed, causing me to stand over that clock through light years any time I have to recover the correct time after a power outage or adjust for Daylight Savings... The other clocks are out of commission, due to lack of a back-up battery, not being preferable wake-up apparatus (one is just for the time of day in the basement, while the other, also to not wanting to deal with battery back-up, despite it boasting a cool BLUE LED, in a world dominated by mostly red and sometimes green, has just been resigned to obsolescence gathering dust) while we lost my daughter's novel rubber cube we went through the rigorous expense of mail-ordering, to getting this one at the store (at Walmart, no less) and in each case, none WORK/workED! There was an old fashioned bell-ringer design we had, but had real glass that shattered, while the real alarm was something internal, that beeped! A far cry from the Sesame Street character that had REAL bells, promoted on PBS, you got shipped to you Free, when you'd supporting the network, pledging the appropriate amount of funds... As for the iPad (I will post a pic of this one I'm typing on next) you have a myriad choice of alarms, of which on that one, (as well as this) we'd resigned ourselves to "doorbell"... -- Dave |
Post# 1040264 , Reply# 7   8/1/2019 at 09:44 (1,701 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI)   |   | |
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Your alarm clock is OBSOLETE!!!!
Before there were iPads (here is our other one) I woke up to my phone, when it was a big, chunky, clunky thing with only ONE kind of tone, to a flip phone (at work, using it to alert me when it was time to return from breaks, I was known as The Alarm Clock Kid) to what I use now (also as a “break’s over, time to get back to work!”)... This iPad like the other one is set for Doorbell while the phone (my favorite tone to alert me on end of breaks at work) is an actual alarm, but don’t like waking up to... — Dave |
Post# 1040270 , Reply# 8   8/1/2019 at 10:12 (1,701 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI)   |   | |
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I wondered what all that barking noise was:
It was the PHONE, mind you, LOL!!!! — Dave
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Post# 1040286 , Reply# 9   8/1/2019 at 12:46 (1,701 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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Radio backlight quit working years ago. Clock brightness is fully adjustable between max and zero. Spare room that doesn't have an alarm clock = phone. |
Post# 1040335 , Reply# 10   8/1/2019 at 19:46 (1,700 days old) by IowaBear (Cedar Rapids, IA)   |   | |
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That's a really cool piece. I found an ad for it in the Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph, dated August 5th, 1977. It cost $60 in 1977, that's $250 today adjusted for inflation. Imagine paying $250 for a clock radio! Of course depreciated over 42 years maybe it's not so bad. :)
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Post# 1040925 , Reply# 11   8/7/2019 at 04:18 (1,695 days old) by askolover (South of Nash Vegas, TN)   |   | |
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I can't sleep if I can see a clock of any kind. When I was a kid, I'd often have trouble falling asleep. As the minutes ticked by I'd get more and more anxious because I wasn't sleeping. So I started putting the clock out of sight. It's usually on the headboard above my head and turned around backwards. The DVD/VCR player has black tape over the clock so I can't see it (plus it's blue LED). Especially now that I've been a vampire for almost 30 years...I can't see any light during my sleep time in the day hours. |
Post# 1040977 , Reply# 12   8/7/2019 at 18:13 (1,695 days old) by twintubdexter (Palm Springs)   |   | |
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I have a "thing" for clock radios. Probably have 20 or so. I finally stopped buying them but I still look. Every so often one finds it's way to my home office. Do I use one to wake up? Certainly not. I retired when I was 52 and wake up when I want...usually around 5:30/6:00 AM. I don't care for weekends too. A week of all Mondays would be great. Sounds like an episode of "The Twilight Zone" huh? Would I want to be young and working again? Of course I would.
A $3.00 favorite because tuning dial lights up.
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Post# 1041065 , Reply# 13   8/8/2019 at 15:09 (1,694 days old) by kskenmore (Kansas)   |   | |
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New products are so boring. When I needed another clock radio I searched for old. Found this Sony on Facebook marketplace in Wichita. I love it! |
Post# 1041077 , Reply# 14   8/8/2019 at 16:17 (1,694 days old) by twintubdexter (Palm Springs)   |   | |
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Post# 1041081 , Reply# 15   8/8/2019 at 16:46 (1,694 days old) by thomasortega (El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora de Los Angeles de Porciúncula)   |   | |
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... sometimes Alexa wakes me up with a tornado/air raid siren, sometimes with a police siren and sometimes with a "Ford escort" alarm. I need something REALLY loud to wake me up. The alarm actually doesn't wake me up, but it annoys both Dolby and Miele so they start barking like crazy, jumping on me and licking me to wake me up because "something is wrong".
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