rees@apollo.uucp (Jim Rees) (01/30/86)
When colour was widely introduced
in 1968 plans were to leave the old transmitters running for (I think)
25 years to let all the old televisions die out. I think they
actually pulled the plug last year because they decided that all
the old sets had finally died.
Should that have been 1958? 1968 is only 18 years ago.
I have about half a dozen TVs, and only one of them was built later than
1960. I would be pretty upset if they all stopped working.
My favorite is a 1948 Hallicrafters with a seven inch round screen. It has
a clunky car-radio style pushbutton tuner, and gets channel 1 (picks up
cordless telephones). I had to make some 7Kv capacitors and a flyback for
it, but it works fine now.
Any other TV collectors out there? I am currently looking for a
pre-1958 color set, and a late tube-technology battery set.