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Re: Atari 2600's damaging TV's back in the day....
12/20/16 05:26 AM
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> TV's were just crap back then. We used to have to get up an smash the top of the TV
> to get the picture to quit rolling.
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> Fond memories of that time period, but I sure don't miss vacuum tube TVs!
Bullshit. The better TVs lasted 15-20 years. Hell, some are still working now. The new TVs are shit. Nobody can work on them and it's cheaper to throw away and buy new. Crazy! BTW, most TVs were solid state by the early 70s, except of course the picture tube. My family had a Zenith 25" color console that was bought new in 1972 or '73. It still had a great picture when I junked it in 1989. I junked it because one of the contacts in the tuner broke and would not pass a signal. I could have spent $60 for a tuner, but elected to buy my mom a new 27" console. It was still going strong when she died in 2005. I'm not sure what we did with it. I know I didn't have room for it.
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