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From: rees@apollo.uucp (Jim Rees)
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Subject: old TVs
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Date: Thu, 30-Jan-86 14:10:44 EST
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    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.