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I was 10, and I don't have any clear memories of watching the Apollo 11 coverage, but if we watched anything at home, it would have been on our new GE 21" color TV in 1969. I still have the TV in my living room. It has a green cataract around the outside and the picture is overly green now, but then it was a great TV. We used it until around 1986 when it was replaced by a cable-ready Magnavox.
It had the "automatic warm-up" circuit to keep the tubes lit halfway. I worked on that TV many times and I have lots of spare parts put away for it. It's one of the heaviest table model TVs I've ever seen. Metal cabinet with fake woodgrain and a heavy metal chassis.
We also got a rotating antenna. It worked great, and we could pick up Charlotte and Chapel Hill.
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07-28-2014, 01:27 PM
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