Topzide
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Or you call a TV a picture box.
You Know You Are Old When
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Way younger watching TV on heavy oversized tube Tvs with finished wood sides and tops that used to be centerpieces in a homed living room. Shows like leave it to beaver, smdu Griffith show, and lassie, a few older .movies etc, was young enough thinking back in those days folks real life non tv activities were also in black and white. Lol. Recently got rid of several of my dad's tube Tvs including a "newer" what was considered one of the first flat screen with a tube, TV , cripes were they heavy. Granted most still worked kind of but figured not for much longer and I could foresee them finally breaking down once the dumpsters to clean his house out I got were picked up. I foolishly tried giving the working tube Tvs away to anyone who wanted them but no takers. Are there even TV rand appliance repair people anymore?
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When the RCA Colortrak 2000 you bought new in 1984 as the latest in TV technology is in a museum:
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ColorTrak 2000 FJR2020W Television RCA RCA Victor Co. Inc.; New York NY, build 1983, 2 pictures, 1 tubes, United States of America , schematics
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How about when your youth was filled with people born 2 centuries prior?
I remember plenty of people born in the late 19th century, three of my great-grandparents among them, and now we're in the 21st. But I'm not that old, I suspect some of you might remember people born before the Civil War!
I remember plenty of people born in the late 19th century, three of my great-grandparents among them, and now we're in the 21st. But I'm not that old, I suspect some of you might remember people born before the Civil War!
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Other than someone who collects obsolete old electronics gadgets, who would want one? Not compatible with today's digital off-air reception, lousy resolution, pretty sure most didn't have HDMI ports either.
TVs were expensive back in the day...1st tv I bought in the early 70s was a (maybe) 11" B&W portable, cost a bit over $100 which would translate to just under $1k today. Worth fixing, I guess, but not when you can get a new, much larger one for half that.Neighbor owned an appliance repair shop before he retired. Said that parts and documentation were not always readily available, and the time it took to fix one made it almost as expensive to repair as it was to toss & replace.
No idea who does warranty repair on appliances these days.
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I'm so glad I got rid of all my CRT's way back when you could still sit them on the curb and expect some young poor bachelor to grab it up.
I was cleaning out my mother's house this summer, and found a few old small CRT's. I threw them in the garbage, and then was told by other family members they're considered hazardous waste now.
So many TV's have been landfilled over the last 90 years, that I'm not sure why anyone suddenly would care about the very few that remain in circulation today, it's a 0.1% or smaller part of the problem. Talk about closing the barn doors after the horse is gone!
I was cleaning out my mother's house this summer, and found a few old small CRT's. I threw them in the garbage, and then was told by other family members they're considered hazardous waste now.
So many TV's have been landfilled over the last 90 years, that I'm not sure why anyone suddenly would care about the very few that remain in circulation today, it's a 0.1% or smaller part of the problem. Talk about closing the barn doors after the horse is gone!
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Still using tube TV with digital converter boxes… and rabbit ears…Other than someone who collects obsolete old electronics gadgets, who would want one? Not compatible with today's digital off-air reception, lousy resolution, pretty sure most didn't have HDMI ports either.
Neighbor owned an appliance repair shop before he retired. Said that parts and documentation were not always readily available, and the time it took to fix one made it almost as expensive to repair as it was to toss & replace.
No idea who does warranty repair on appliances these days.
The old antenna rotor from 1960’s finally wore out :-(
If you remember constantly adjusting the color on your TV depending on which show or station you were watching. As I remember over adjust the intensity until everything was orange and then dial it back until the skin tone looked "right".
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I'm in my mid 70s, and most of the "old people" from my youth were born in the 1800s, though by my teenage years anyone born before the civil war would have been pushing the century mark. Not impossible, but not common either.
Remember growing up you could give the old TV a good whack with your hand on the side all of a sudden the picture comes back clear as day usually. Figure you do the same to one of these new flat screens it will either break or get worse lol.
