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Old 02-04-2008, 02:37 AM
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Originally Posted by andy View Post
I meant that back in the 70's and 80's things like rare 50's color TVs and Fisher 500's were just old junk that most people wanted to get rid of. I know as a kid I passed up on lots of junk that would be worth thousands now.
OK, I understand now, yes. If I had known better, in the store where I worked from March 1979 until January 1980, I could have bought, I think, about four of these 1954 GE color monitors, new in their original wooden crates:

http://earlytelevision.org/ge_4tm15.html

The bad thing is, I had already started collecting old TV sets then (the same store had an RCA 630TS in its back room that I still own), but I thought of color TV as "newer", and I was only interested in pre-1950 TV sets, so I didn't even bother with the GE monitors.
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