I DO treasure them, Martin! I get a chuckle just competing for them. They have a special place in my house. :o)
Next to my police awards... Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -----Original Message----- From: "Martin Baxter" <truthseeker...@lycos.com> Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:21:34 To: <scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com> Subject: Re: [RE][scifinoir2] Fwd: A Fond Farewell to Analog TV Reece, where *do* you put all of these First Laugh of the Morn Awards I give you? :-D ---------[ Received Mail Content ]---------- Subject : Re: [RE][scifinoir2] Fwd: A Fond Farewell to Analog TV Date : Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:58:47 +0000 From : mcjennings...@yahoo.com To : "SciFi2" <scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com> Yup! I forgot to turn on the sarcasm! LOL! Cathodes and anodes and tubes on the testers. TV went off at the crack of evening. I remember Winky Dinkn Box 5, New York 19, NY. Buffalo Bob, Clarabelle, 3 channels, Ed Sullivan (a really great shoooo!) But some days I can't remember my name! Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -----Original Message----- From: "C.W. Badie" Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:15:42 To: Subject: RE: [RE][scifinoir2] Fwd: A Fond Farewell to Analog TV You know better than that, Reece...remember the glass tubes built into the chassis...and pre-remote TVs? --- On Sat, 6/13/09, Reece Jennings wrote: From: Reece Jennings Subject: RE: [RE][scifinoir2] Fwd: A Fond Farewell to Analog TV To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, June 13, 2009, 7:08 PM Yes! Ahhhh, the good old days! From: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com [mailto:scifinoir2@ yahoogroups. com] On Behalf Of Keith Johnson Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2009 5:28 PM To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Subject: Re: [RE][scifinoir2] Fwd: A Fond Farewell to Analog TV 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" To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.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$$ CRTs! I don't plan to change them, either! When I was in Air Force electronics school in 1967, we learned about how CRTs worked, then we learned about transistors. THAT was some transition. Transistors looked like 3-legged spiders, and they averaged a size of about a quarter to a fifty-cent piece. I remember NO TV ( I was 5), the transition to color. People are slow to change even in the face of deadlines! LOL! From: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com [mailto:scifinoir2@ yahoogroups. com] On Behalf Of Martin Baxter Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 3:15 PM To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Subject: [RE][scifinoir2] Fwd: A Fond Farewell to Analog TV I'm gonna miss those big-a$$ 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" To : scifino...@yahoogro ups.com http://digg. com/d1teCg http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=JQdwk8Yntds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds
