while it was on, it would explode.

🤯

She had all kinds of sayings like that.

on sale, as a discontinued model, for $495!

Sometimes, as I struggle to make out the scoreboard graphic in my 50” hdtv, I wonder what that would look like on the old Sony.

I no longer have it. It died in 1990. Sonys tend to go from a great picture to totally dead with nothing in between — but they do last a long time.

My mother's comment about the TV was she was surprised by how colorful Johnny Carson's curtains were.

was an RCA.

I used to have an 8-track recorder back in the early 70s. You'd be listening to music and in the middle of a song the cassette would switch to another track and continue the song. I also remember people replacing their car radios with in-dash 8-track cassette with AM/FM radios.

All on one. Phonograph, 8 track and dual cassette player/recorder. It still works and I Just haven’t been able to convince myself to get rid of it. I have maybe six 8 track “albums” left.

...including my own remote control (Zenith analog clicker device) tv in my room.

Plus tvs in pretty much all rooms of the house, including a small portable tv in the main bathroom.

The reason was, my stepfather was the lead electronics engineer for Zenith, and he was allowed to bring all of the new designs home to test them in real time, under "average family circumstances."

Here's a link to a Zenith promo from the early 60s - the remote control shown in the still is like the one I had:

i inhereted her set anmd have a firstt gen flat screen.

It was 17", black and white, and VHF only. It had little spots in the corners. I watched Doctor Who on it Sunday nights in my bedroom. I think I paid $5 for it. Maybe it was $10. It was a very long time ago.

...that the resolution was like a fairly cheap picture.
1080 now..Then >> 240 ?? (Or something like that.) Was so-so pleased with it.

from the 1950's



We'd turn the lights off and watch TV with the weird greenish halo around it. LOL!

(When our TV picture would roll, I was the smallest kid so I had the job of going partially behind the TV, sitting on the floor with my hand up in front of the screen, palm facing me and turning the vertical control knob till I could tell the picture had stopped rolling.)

First remote control;

" Son, turn the channel"


Koz