Re: [OT] To todays youth..



Richard Miller wrote:
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ray o'hara wrote:
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In message <m3zmhetie6.fsf@xxxxxxxxx>, Bjorn Borud
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you could even take stuff that didn't work back to the store
and they'd replace it or (shock and awe) perhaps even repair
it. heck, most televisions came with complete schematics in
the manual so you could fix it yourself if you were handy
around electronics or knew someone who was.

A friend of mine still uses his top of the range telly. Top of
the range for 1972, that is, black and white, three buttons,
on-off switch, no remote.

top of the range? who had black and white after 1965?

Most of the world.

There were no regular colour transmissions in the UK 'til '67



My family was average middle class.

2.4 children?

We got our first colour TV in
1974.

I think ours was much the same time. I guess prices were reasonable by then.
Five years in to all *three* channels being broadcast in colour (the *three*
is for frank with his 20 channels, spoilt brat).


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