11-02-2020, 01:35 PM
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16 hours ago, shortleash said:
are you people insane...i bet you still use 8 track player too...
Not so much, never did; didn't like the engineering/ design of the format.
Had a RCA color tv though. Very long, round, very heavy tube. Only good at night, you couldn't make the house dark enough in daylight to see the picture. Which was OK, there were only 2 programs broadcast in color anyway. The biggie was "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color", 6:00 PM Sunday nights. Big bowl of popcorn (popped in bacon fat) and get settled in.
Every time the floor was vacuumed the TV went all rainbow. We used a bulk tape eraser to demagnetize the tube.....
There was a 5-tube VHF TV signal amplifier in the closet behind the TV, and a slide-out 3-tube pre-amp on the tree on top of the hill where the antenna was installed. (We were 50 miles from the nearest transmitter).
Fun fact: The entire Russian space program was vacuum tube. Miniaturized ones, about the size of a cigarette filter. Civilian application for what was obviously a military rocket program. Another fun fact: Vacuum tubes are E.M.P. proof. Would still work after a first (second, 3rd.... ) strike. Accident you say? Primitive Russian design you say? Or ......
