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I watched on my Heathkit GR-180 color set. Big service day:
turned it on that morning ... heater cathode short in one
gun of the CRT. That set used a very special fine pitch CRT
that was hard to find. Not a single one for sale in Boston
after an hour on the phone. So I started calling little shops in
Cambridge and the very first one, four blocks from my house, had one.
I and a roommate hand-carried it back, installed and converged it
in plenty of time. (Electrically I would guess that a regular tube would
have worked.)
I and my roommates watched every minute of the moon stuff.
A few months earlier I went across the parking lot to the
Geo dept. when I heard they had moon rocks ... they were letting people
touch one! (Against the rules, but NASA would never know, since they were
going to dissolve it in acid anyway and it was already known to be
full of sodium.)
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