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To: Justin C who wrote (15069)	12/10/1998 5:49:00 PM
From: Michael Sphar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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.

To: Justin C who wrote (15069)	12/10/1998 8:48:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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?