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Old 12-14-2008, 11:38 AM
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REAL TVs have TUBES!
 
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I tried to list them all in my head, but my processor locked, and smoke came out of my ears

I only really remember the first 5 or 6 sets I had, then literally 1000s, or tens of 1000s passed through my hands between 1976 and now. Amazingly, I still have the very first set that I bamboozled a neighbor into giving me when I was 9. It's a 23" Magnavox B&W wood table model with remote. Circa 1959. The second one was a 1955 RCA 21" console, and the third was an RCA 19" plastic portable from about '65. I still have the RCA portable, and it still works (afaik). Then I met another neighbor who was a TV nut, and I got an Emerson 21" console B&W with doors, a Sentinel console with upside-down chassis, and a Motorola late 50s metal 21" table model. Later from the same neighbor, a Curtis-Mathes 23" combo, an RCA CTC-19 metal table model, a Hitachi 19" color tube set (metal table model), and probably a couple more. This would be around 1978-79. Beyond that, the memory is spotty. My first small round tube set that I got as a collectible TV was a Hoffman 10" blond table model with doors. That was in about 1977. All of the others I mentioned weren't meant to be collector TVs... They were still new enough at the time to be daily watchers, if working! My first color TV was a 1967 Packard-Bell 21CT7 roundie. I remember being fascinated that it was the same age I was, and it was 10 years old.

Charles
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