Re: Dr Who 5th May *** SPOILER ***

On Mon, 7 May 2007 21:47:35 +0100, Fenny <umrat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Previously on Studio 60 ^W^W uk.media.radio.archers, Stephen said ...

Colour? In my day Dr Who were in black and white, and much of the
time we counted ourselves lucky if we could get the white.

We got our first colour telly in 1985.

We got ours sometime in the mid 1970s. Dad bought a pile of factory
reject boards for the Philips G8 and by canibalising them, building a
wiring harness, PSU, audio board and all the rest got a working TV out
of them.

When it was first switched on, we got the playschool clock backwards,
upside down and in the wrong colours.

It had a wonderful control panel at the back with about 20 adjusters and
three switches to turn red, blue and green on and off. You could spend
ages with a mirror propped on a chair in front of it, tweaking for the
perfect picture.

In about 1990 a flatmate of mine pulled a Philips G8 out of a skip. The
frame driver transistors had failed so all you got was a white line
across the screen. Once fixed, that was my main TV for about 5 years.
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