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by Lady Lavender on May 8th, 2009
Yes, I remember that. :)
by Thinker on May 8th, 2009
Oh yes how I remember those old tube type TV's and Radios...Remember the tube checkers in stores that would test the tubes for you and have the new one to sell you.....
OH but aren't we dating ourselves!
by Beavis - the other white meat on May 8th, 2009
Yep, vertical & horizontal hold as well. Ahh, the good old, bad old days, when there were only 3 channels!
by kgslol3 on May 8th, 2009
i still have a t.v. that does it. it is so cool to watch! :)
by Reillydog on July 1st, 2009
Yes I remember it; I don't know when that stopped being the case, though.
by Ec-nal Licensed Bootie Inspector on May 8th, 2009
Ec does. That was the picture tube's 'guns' emitting the trail end of the voltages received from the 'vacuum tubes' used in it's circuitry. Modern 'solid state' circuitry has little capacitive (built up) energy to transmit, so that little dot has been relegated to the history books yo...
by Talimze on May 8th, 2009
There was a TV in my house at one time that would do that. It had knobs instead of buttons too. That was unusual.
by GLAM71 on July 8th, 2009
wow, we must be old. cause i remember that tv
by Sharona Life is a Tale Told by an Idiot on July 1st, 2009
In the 60's, I think was the last time I remembered that.
by uncacal on July 1st, 2009
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by Eddie O. on July 1st, 2009
yeah i remember that "}
by stagood on May 8th, 2009
Oh yes, now doesn't that make us feel old... Ed Sullivan, Bonanza, Lucy, 77 Sunset Strip, Rawhide. I could go on and on and on....
by Nancy on May 8th, 2009
I do. We had a tall black and white tv that did that. It also took a bit for it to "warm up" when you turned it on. We had it so long that one Thanksgiving it didn't turn on, but instead caught fire. We were lucky though, there was a firestation about a block away. Secretly, all the kids in the house were happy that it finally died because we got a new color tv after that.
by anonymous on May 8th, 2009
Ah yes, I remember that. I also remember having to get up to change the channel by turning the knob.
by Factotum on May 8th, 2009
There is such an unlikely poignancy in that.
Too...much...nostalgia....
by j ninja... on May 8th, 2009
Afraid to say I do....
by KimKfromAbseconNJ on September 16th, 2009
Yep! Back in the day...1965, my family had a Zenith color set..with the round screen. That's exactly what happened when the set was turned off.
The set also took about a minute to warm up.
Here's an old RCA color set, with the 'roundie' picture tube..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y69WLDz9OU&feature=related
by Bowen on July 8th, 2009
I remember it. That was back in the days when you had to turn on the TV 5 minutes before your show began so the tubes would warm up. Jeez, I'm feeling old.
by dancer on July 8th, 2009
Mine still does, seriously. I'm waiting until I can afford a flat tv or this one dies.
by cellarmaster1 on July 8th, 2009
Oh yeah! I even remember watching the Big Chief test pattern waiting for Saturday morning cartoons to start!!!
by Ditto on July 8th, 2009
THERE'S an old memory I've long since forgotten about!
by Trissinger on July 1st, 2009
Yep, DO remember that. I used to watch it 'til it would pop off the screen & land on the carpet.
by dumdum on July 1st, 2009
Can not name others although I feel certian there are many, but I know I can. +5
by Beavis - the other white meat on July 1st, 2009
Yes, it sort of reminded me of a Cylon taking a nap.
by Ron C on July 1st, 2009
Just think, there are generations now that never used a dial telephone, never had to wait for the tubes to warm up before the TV comes on. We even had to go all the way to the television to turn the dial and change channels. Hard to believe we even had electricity back then.
I never bought an 8-track because I knew they were junk they day they came out. I dropped my Walkman off the roof because I was listening the the cassette tape instead of holding on.
There are people living today that won't remember party lines, and phones that only connected by wire and you had to ask the operator for help for a long distance call to another state.
An international call took several hours preparation.
I don't miss the "good old days".
by Celeste: It is what it is. Like it or not on July 1st, 2009
We used to have an old T.V. like that,although I am young,my sisters and I grew up with an old T.V. to watch.Real good nastalgia,and I like antiques to this day.Funny how we sometimes didn't have running water,but that T.V. was there unless the electricity was out,which was often,so we prized the set.*+++++*
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And the glowing tubes inside the box!
by uncacal on May 11th, 2009