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Originally Posted by RobtWB
yes. yes. we should all strive to live in the past, to live retro, to live in the utopia of the 50's and 60's --- a utopia that never existed ---
we should all go back to wearing mechanical wristwatches, twisted pair wired analog telephone service with rotary dial desk phones, drive those dinosaur rust bucket cars of the 50/60's that everyone salivates over and we should all have an outdoor teleevision tower and antenna and be limited to abc, cbs, nbc, and let us not forget the beloved and ever popular DuMont network
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drive those dinosaur rust bucket cars of the 50/60's that everyone salivates over.
Now now; in the UK those boats are sought after. Why? Most have the stability of a roller-skate with worn bearings but people want them because they are rare. Nothing wrong with that, nothing wrong with mechanical wrist watches either as long as you think of them as things to collect, not for everyday use.
Old stuff gets a gloss; in memory most are far better than they actually were. Yes, I'd love to have one of those huge Motorola combination sets that get talked about, but only if someone who knew what they were doing rebuilt it, and it worked reliably (and the TV had a decent picture for day to day watching) for the foreseeable future. Were they ever this good or reliable? Or in general do you guys do what we do; wish ourselves back to a past that wasn't what it was.