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To: Justin C who wrote (15069)	12/10/1998 8:48:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) of 71178

The first TV I remember was this floor model with what musta been about a 19" tube in a real tubby chassis. Tubes, and these neon-luminescent channel indicators. The channel changer was a long Bakelite bar which you touched, and with an authoritative Blump! the set went up one channel. The bar would get mechanically stuck, and Blump!Blump!Blump!- you'd run through all the VHF channels over&over again. I remember my dad taking the front panel off, and behind the long sleek touchbar there was this Neolithic-looking Masonite circle with silvery blobs and resistors and a tangle of stuff on it. Behind/below that was the nest of tubes which ran the show. Remember waiting 30-40 dseconds for the Glow of Goodness to show out the little air holes?

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