[Tubejunke]

Seems like this as with most things is different strokes for different folks. I expected that and I still am able to get an idea of the set's worth. It doesn't seem like that long ago that TV shops would sell me anything "round" for ten bucks and I regularly parted out sets given to me as a kid so that Dad wouldn't just empty the basement for me.

Seems they became "viral" in the past 8 to 10 years, which parallels with what I call the relative age group that sort of control what is or isn't the must have memory. For the longest time it seemed that unless you had a 40s or otherwise round CRT black and white OR a unPredicta Philco, you didn't have much. I am glad that the spectrum has broadened quite a bit as the interests change with time. Heck, there are quys getting excited over 1987 Sony Trinitron finds these days. And by all means I mean no ridicule because it's all about preservation. No different really than us tube circuitry lovers that can remember Solid State sales producing tons of good old sets for beans in thrift stores or even more at dump-sites for free.

The flat screen trend we are now in that introduced 100% solid state sets and the death of the vacuum tube to the general public produced so many CRT set disposals that thrift shops most often won't even take them as donations. Too many to handle and warehouse. So kudos to the age group that feels the same way about later model sets as we may about 50s stuff and "roundies".