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Aaaargh!
I decided to bring the "good" Predicta home from work to run at our New Year's Day party. (In a desperate attempt to stay married, I only have one set, a Pilot 3" in the living room at home!) I figured our guests might enjoy seeing it (or maybe I'd find out who my real friends were if anybody saw it and started edging for the door.)
The "good" Predicta is the only set I've ever paid money to have professionally rebuilt from the ground up. Only problem was, I did this about six years ago and never actually got around to putting all the innards back together or firing it up. So there I was on New Year's eve, after the ball had dropped, puzzling over the connections (Yes, of course I drew copious diagrams and took lots of photos, but of course they all ended up "somewere else".) I decided to do a little web research, and on the way, I stopped in here and saw Tim's post. Made me feel better right away: I was really worried that I would be the only one in the world weird enough to be worrying about old TVs at particular moment (there were over 150 similarly crazy people here at the time!) and I saw that several of you had already posted your photos.
I found what I needed and went back downstairs and finished putting the set back together. Then while my daughter and I were watching the final few minutes of Dick Clark on it, I grabbed my camera to snap a photo. When I turned around, here's what I saw (see photo below).
Oh, well, I think it came with the famous "30 days or 30 minutes, whichever comes first" guarantee anyway! (Turns out the orginal integrators are all still in there and I suspect one is the likely culprit.) First project of 2006: back to the bench with this one.
Happy New Year!
--Dave
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