Re: The end of an era
On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 15:24:11 -0000, Bill Wright wrote:
I still have the Micro-X catalogue from 1987. Anyone else have fun in the
80s with satellite?
I can't remember the exact date we got the dish at home, but I know it was
set up in time for the inaugural Rugby World Cup which was held in NZ in
early summer 1987 - I can remember staying up late/getting up early to
watch the games on (I think) Screensport, and then being deadbeat in school
the next day.
RTL+ and its fine selection of programming did great things for my German,
a language I now use professionally as a freelance translator!
Ours was a fixed dish though, so nothing too dodgy was received, though we
added a 2nd LNB for Hotbird later on (early 1990s?).
Iwan
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