I remember transisters the size of pencil erasers, but big as a coin??? Wow! Of course I remember when integrated circuits went from less than a dozen to dozens, hundreds, thousands, than millions of transistors on a single board.
I had an electronics kit from Radio Shack that gave me many hours of fun. I had those bulky walkie-talkies when I was a kid, and I sure remember watching with interest when the TV repairman (remember when we had those???) pulled out the guts of the TV. Man those tubes were fascinating to me. Remember taking a tube out of the TV and going to the grocery store and plugging it into a tester to see if it was good? How about the days of giving the TV a few moments to "warm up" before the picture appeared? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Reece Jennings" <mcjennings...@yahoo.com> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2009 12:26:27 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [RE][scifinoir2] Fwd: A Fond Farewell to Analog TV HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! They're still around, disguised as HDTVs with their converters. Heck ALL of mine are Big-a$$ CRTs! I don't plan to change them, either! When I was in Air Force electronics school in 1967, we learned about how CRTs worked, then we learned about transistors. THAT was some transition. Transistors looked like 3-legged spiders, and they averaged a size of about a quarter to a fifty-cent piece. I remember NO TV ( I was 5), the transition to color. People are slow to change even in the face of deadlines! LOL! From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:scifino...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Martin Baxter Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 3:15 PM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: [RE][scifinoir2] Fwd: A Fond Farewell to Analog TV I'm gonna miss those big-a$$ cathode-ray tubes, personally... ;-) ---------[ Received Mail Content ]---------- Subject : [scifinoir2] Fwd: A Fond Farewell to Analog TV Date : Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:48:33 -0400 >From : "brent wodehouse" <brent_wodeho...@thefence.us> To : scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com http://digg.com/d1teCg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds
