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  • #16
    Originally posted by HalcyonDays View Post
    I am old enough to remember once having a TV and then to have gotten rid of it as I can see no reason any more to have one.
    Keeps wifey off my back and grandchildren quiet in the morning. Used to be a place to put your drink. Not anymore, too narrow.
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    Certified above and below...................sea level.

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    • #17
      I'm old enough to remember when TV sets run on cathode tubes. They took 10 min. to warm up (sounds would come up after 5 min.) and in the winter time they doubled as a house heater. Back then they were not manufactured in some Asiatic country but in my case in the USSR. Weighted about 50 kg (that's 100 pounds for you Americans) and were extremely reliable except for the rare occasion when they would spontaneously enter the self combustion mode.

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      • #18
        Originally posted by Peter_K View Post
        I'm old enough to remember when TV sets run on cathode tubes. They took 10 min. to warm up (sounds would come up after 5 min.) and in the winter time they doubled as a house heater. Back then they were not manufactured in some Asiatic country but in my case in the USSR. Weighted about 50 kg (that's 100 pounds for you Americans) and were extremely reliable except for the rare occasion when they would spontaneously enter the self combustion mode.
        Remember going to the corner drug store, (damn there isn't any of those around anymore either.) with my Dad so he could put the tubes on the tester, they had so he'd know which one went bad and needed to replace, so we could watch tv...
        -Not an Airbus or Boeing guy here.
        -20 year veteran on the USN Lockheed P-3 Orion.

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        • #19
          Originally posted by Peter_K View Post
          I'm old enough to remember when TV sets run on cathode tubes. They took 10 min. to warm up (sounds would come up after 5 min.) and in the winter time they doubled as a house heater. Back then they were not manufactured in some Asiatic country but in my case in the USSR. Weighted about 50 kg (that's 100 pounds for you Americans) and were extremely reliable except for the rare occasion when they would spontaneously enter the self combustion mode.
          Well, as for P3 (well educated people like druggists tend to go for bigger cities? Imho thats no difference between the US and Germany...)

          I want to spontaneously weigh my TV . And I guess it is manufactured in Portugal (!) until I can give further proof.
          The German long haul is alive, 65 years and still kicking.
          The Gold Member in the 747 club, 50 years since the first LH 747.
          And constantly advanced, 744 and 748 /w upper and lower EICAS.
          This is Lohausen International airport speaking, echo delta delta lima.

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