[ChrisW6ATV]

I was nine years old then, and did not have the patience to sit for what seemed like hours not knowing exactly when the moon walking would start. All I remember from the occasional times I walked in to see what was going on, is a split screen showing the moon on one half and maybe some kind of telemetry or other data or graphics on the other. My eldest brother (13 at that time) and my mother watched the whole event. It would have been on the 19-inch B&W Sylvania portable TV that my mother had bought the year before if I remember; it was highly rated by Consumer Reports magazine.

Unfortunately, between my mother's cigarette smoke, having several cats, and the general dust/dirt in the air (plus the abuse of three kids using it), that set's tuner got noisy and intermittent after a while, and we ruined it by doing things like banging on the channel knob or shaft to get the picture back, and when it got worse, we banged on it more, and harder. Years later, we tried tuner-cleaner spray (in the wrong places, I now know), but it was too late. The set itself was still working, other than the tuner issue, with no service calls in five years if I remember right, when we got another TV set in 1973.