Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: The Year Was 1960 (was Allied Radio / Radio Shack) Message-ID: Date: 17 Feb 91 08:52:00 GMT Sender: news@casbah.acns.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Higdon Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 23 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 128, Message 8 of 9 On Feb 16 at 23:49, TELECOM Moderator writes: > (The last COs in Chicago to go dial were cut in 1951.) No modems, no > color television. No color television? Speak for yourself, Pat. I was a high school sophomore and augmented my income by baby sitting for neighbors. I distinctly remember watching (of all things) the Perry Como show on NBC on Saturday nights because it was very much in color on the neighbor's RCA color TV. (The first color TV I ever saw was in 1956.) John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@zygot.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o ! [Moderator's Note: Maybe there was color television by then; I forget. I am sure it was not all that common in households until the early sixties sometime. Obviously there was no cable television, and FM radio was in its infancy, virtually dwarfed by AM stations, which were still doing the 'radio version' of the old shows (comedy, variety, etc) which had begun migrating to television several years before. PAT]