Good summation D. It was always slightly weird going to V Park. That monochrome big screen. Feeling like you were in the Dandenongs. Always cold. I remember the gravel outside the stands and playing kick to kick there at half time.
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Good summation D. It was always slightly weird going to V Park. That monochrome big screen. Feeling like you were in the Dandenongs. Always cold. I remember the gravel outside the stands and playing kick to kick there at half time.
was at vfl park as a kid when Dunstall kicked 17 and remember hanging around with some mates till everyone left including the cleaners and helping ourselves to boxes of chips and chocolates left lying around. then had to jump the fence to get out. can't do that at the dome.
Geez you're a young buck Horatio. I was well into my 20s at the time of that infamous event.
Redford was well into his 50s.
Monochrome screen? What I remember is the scoreboard with electronic numbers. Not sure I went there very often when it had a screen.
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Yeah, I certainly don’t recall Waverley looking like that first pic.Do you mean this?
I can't remember that screen. It was always like this in my time:
I can't remember that screen. It was always like this in my time:
The second one, it's monochrome. "Mono" meaning one and "chrome" meaning colour, in this case yellow.
Old computer screens used to be monochrome too - here's a green one. It has one colour, green, and the other pixels are off, which looks black. Monochrome.
Here's another from the WSC era
The sepia tone scoreboard didn't come in until 1982, according to Wiki (same year as the the MCG Diamond Vision scoreboard). Not sure if that's accurate but if so, I must've been to a couple of dozen games with this scoreboard, including two finals each in 1977 and 1980.
I was there that day, too. There was this weird feeling of wanting to see him break the record and be there to see it, but at the same time not wanting to see him get it, because it would be against us. I didn’t mind Arctic Park, but geez it used to get cold there.
I think "sepia tone" is the correct term, like old photographs. Its grainy video had different shades.The second one, it's monochrome. "Mono" meaning one and "chrome" meaning colour, in this case yellow.
Old computer screens used to be monochrome too - here's a green one. It has one colour, green, and the other pixels are off, which looks black. Monochrome.
Sepia is one colour, hence monochrome. It's just they used brighter or darker pixels to get shading. "Sepia-tone" was marketing speak for monochrome.
In 1982, a monochrome video matrix scoreboard was installed, for the first time in VFL history, displaying instant replay highlights. In 1984, the arena was re-turfed and the drainage system upgraded.
en.wikipedia.org
And this
Monochrome photography is photography where each position on an image can record and show a different amount of light, but not a different hue. It includes all forms of black-and-white photography, which produce images containing shades of neutral grey ranging from black to white.[1] Other hues besides grey, such as sepia, cyan, or brown can also be used in monochrome photography.[2] In the contemporary world, monochrome photography is mostly used for artistic purposes and certain technical imaging applications, rather than for visually accurate reproduction of scenes.
en.wikipedia.org
Anyway the VFL park scoreboard hill is not a hill I want to die on so if you want to disagree that it's fancy monochrome, go for it.
In 1982, a monochrome video matrix scoreboard was installed, for the first time in VFL history, displaying instant replay highlights. In 1984, the arena was re-turfed and the drainage system upgraded.
Waverley Park - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
And this
Monochrome photography is photography where each position on an image can record and show a different amount of light, but not a different hue. It includes all forms of black-and-white photography, which produce images containing shades of neutral grey ranging from black to white.[1] Other hues besides grey, such as sepia, cyan, or brown can also be used in monochrome photography.[2] In the contemporary world, monochrome photography is mostly used for artistic purposes and certain technical imaging applications, rather than for visually accurate reproduction of scenes.
Monochrome photography - Wikipedia
Anyway the VFL park scoreboard hill is not a hill I want to die on so if you want to disagree that it's fancy monochrome, go for it.
The umpires wanted to be part of history too. Ball on the wing, whistle, free kick to Dunstall in the square. He got 5 from free kicks.
Classic VFL park, it was always windy, if the sun was out you couldn’t see from one wing and when it rained it poured.
The car park was a mud pit with random lakes and getting out was a nightmare.
But it still somehow had more soul than Docklands.
The car park was a mud pit with random lakes and getting out was a nightmare.
But it still somehow had more soul than Docklands.
The Big V Screen is the one I remember. BTW - In screen terms, the VFL Park one was Amber. Amber, Green, White were the colour choices you had in screens back then.
If I remember correctly, Waverley had the first Video Scoreboard in Australia.
I used to sell drinks, lollies, chocolates, peanuts and potato chips at Waverley during footy season.
If I remember correctly, Waverley had the first Video Scoreboard in Australia.
I used to sell drinks, lollies, chocolates, peanuts and potato chips at Waverley during footy season.
I remember the amber BBC monitors in the high school computer lab. Spent lots of time there teaching myself to code while managing to fail Year 10 Computing.
I remember being excited when we took delivery of our first CGA Monitor. Resolution of 640 x 200. I'd never seen anything so pretty.,I remember the amber BBC monitors in the high school computer lab. Spent lots of time there teaching myself to code while managing to fail Year 10 Computing.
we did coding in basic using those cards you mark with a pencil and feed through a hopper
@Admin, you might want to spin off the last few posts into a sperate thread. The content is older than Jack.
Used to do this at high school too.
Remember thinking that it was *smile* boring and there was no future in it...
