Old TV finds circa 2009

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In the early 90s I was dragging home tube tv's by the truckload. The key was that those sets were still worth something. Not much, mind you, but you could set up a table at the flea market or haul a load to the auction and somebody would buy them. Every ramshackle used furniture store could be counted on to have one or two in the back. As the prices dropped on new sets the old stuff rapidly went worthless. And the point is well taken: if we think they are "worthless" now, just wait a couple years. There is going to be an avalanche of 80s/90s sets-and newer. This is an era that doesn't interest me-yet. Someday I'll probably wish I had some of that 80s stuff. As for older gear, there is going to be less and less of it coming out of the woodwork. Very, very few people could be left out there using a tube set as a daily driver. Most of the stuff still around exists because it is too much trouble to throw out. I suspect when the deadline gets here local governments will have large electronics recycling drives. Colortraks and System 3's will be hauled away by the tractor trailer load, never to be seen again.