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To: Justin C who wrote (15069)12/10/1998 5:49:00 PM
From: Michael Sphar  Read Replies (1) of 71178
 
Justin, you must put that in context. I remember our family buying its first TV, in time to see Eisenhower's first election. These were not primitive behemoths in their time. They were the high tech creme of the crop, new-fangled gizmos that led to a changing of the world, pentium class toys of their time.

Ours had 13 push buttons on it. For the first decade, only 3 of them picked up any signals. I was the first TV kid in my family. People older than I had only radio or movies for audio/visual entertainment. How the heck did all those preceding generations raise their kids and keep their sanity ?

That TV brought us the halcyon days of Ozzie and Harriet, Father Knows Best, the Ed Sullivan Show and many others. It and the follow-ons eventually brought us nightly televised warfare in Vietnam, and the consequent national political evolution that provoked. Civilization evolved, now we have presidential smut cluttering the broadcast airwaves and kids who feel totally deprived if restricted from free access to their pile of VCR cassettes.
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