Early tv techs faced color challenge

[Adam]

I often wonder what it was like for guys repairing sets back then. As much as I like watching early color sets, I do prefer working on b/w, which is why my ctc-10 has been sitting for so long while I've fixed b/w sets all summer. And by the time they went to solid state I don't like to work on them at all, I really don't have much idea what I'm doing anymore, and I can get just as good of a picture if not better out of the tube sets. I've wondered if any of guys back then thought like I do and got out of tv repair in the mid-70s when everything was going solid state.
It's interesting to hear how people were so excited by color tv when it was new, if anything I've had the opposite experience, when I first got interested in tv's in the mid-80s I thought it was exciting and different to have b/w when everyone else had color. But when I get my ctc-10 going I'm going to get some early 60s color shows on dvd and try to recreate the experience of early color. Now if I could only get a few modulators that operated on different channels, then I could still get some use out of the remote, I find that I hardly ever use remotes anymore because I'm always running my sets either off a dvd player and rf modulator, vcr, or uhf converter.