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i still have a t.v. that does it. it is so cool to watch! :)
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Yep, vertical & horizontal hold as well. Ahh, the good old, bad old days, when there were only 3 channels!
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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!
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Yes, I remember that. :)
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Afraid to say I do....
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There was a TV in my house at one time that would do that. It had knobs instead of buttons too. That was unusual.
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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...
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There is such an unlikely poignancy in that. Too...much...nostalgia....
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Ah yes, I remember that. I also remember having to get up to change the channel by turning the knob.
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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.
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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....
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yeah i remember that "}
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Yes I remember it; I don't know when that stopped being the case, though.
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In the 60's, I think was the last time I remembered that.
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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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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".
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Yes, it sort of reminded me of a Cylon taking a nap.
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Can not name others although I feel certian there are many, but I know I can. +5
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Yep, DO remember that. I used to watch it 'til it would pop off the screen & land on the carpet.
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Please tell me why this question was DR'ed?
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THERE'S an old memory I've long since forgotten about!
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Oh yeah! I even remember watching the Big Chief test pattern waiting for Saturday morning cartoons to start!!!
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Mine still does, seriously. I'm waiting until I can afford a flat tv or this one dies.
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wow, we must be old. cause i remember that tv
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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.
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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
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