29 May
2024
29 May
'24
12:35 a.m.
On 5/28/2024 6:16 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
On Wed, 29 May 2024, Adrian Godwin wrote:
Not sure it's the same model you had, but I have several of those 19"
Philcos, at least one is still working. The others, I'll repair.
As a child. my parents weren't sufficiently
enamoured of televisions
to buy
one, but I was given some old ones.
The one on the bottom had working sound and the one on the top had
working
video.
When the TV wasn't working, and seemingly unrepariable (drugstore tube
testers), my father would buy another cheap old working TV from
Goodwill, etc.
A significant part of the time, that meant not having a working one.
So, my brother and I pooled our money to buy a 19" "portable" Philco.
My father chipped in the balance for the UHF option ("educational" TV
was UHF in those days).
I remember watching the "Cuban Missile Crisis" on it.
I also remember going down Massachusetts avenue in the middle of the
night, and all embassies had all of their lights on all night.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com