Austvarchive mentions in his posting of 11 May 2013 that there were demonstrations of Colour Television at the Royal Melbourne Show in the early 1960's I saw my first colour TV there in about 1967. I would have been about eight at the time.

From memory, a single colour TV was set-up in the window of a building with people queuing up outside to view it. The crowd was immense. I was sitting on my dad's shoulders to see over the mass of people. After quite a long time, we got close enough to see the TV from a distance.

I still remember the single image that was being displayed on it at the time. There was a white building on a gentle up-hill slope, with a brilliant blue sky above, and the greenest of green lawn in front. This image is burnt into my memory so strongly because I couldn't believe that we had waited so long just to see a picture of a building.

Years later, I believe that this was a picture of Parliament house in Canberra. Perhaps there are others who were there who can give further information.

I guess this is what is called living history, because, I was there.

Wayne