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[JohnCT]

Originally Posted by etype2

Larry, I agree, but being there as you were, my memories were of compromised color akin to the restored tape of “An Evening With Fred Astaire”. I saw my first color TV in 1956. The technology of the broadcast color chain back then could not exploit the capability of color TV receivers.

Not completely related, but I'm going to retell a story my dad used to tell. Back in 1959, my dad bought an Admiral 21" color TV. Admiral built the cabinet, but it was an RCA supplied CTC11 and CRT.

My dad had a customer interested in buying a color TV, and since there was no color broadcast during regular hours or weekdays, dad invited him to our house on Sunday night to watch NBC (Walt Disney I believe it was).

The man sat quietly for an hour and when the show was over, stood up and told my dad that he came to laugh at the color TV. He never expected to see something so beautiful as what he saw that night.

I don't recall if the man bought a color TV or not (dad is gone now almost 20 years so I can't ask him), but I always got a kick out of that story.

John

[etype2]

Originally Posted by JohnCT

Not completely related, but I'm going to retell a story my dad used to tell. Back in 1959, my dad bought an Admiral 21" color TV. Admiral built the cabinet, but it was an RCA supplied CTC11 and CRT.

My dad had a customer interested in buying a color TV, and since there was no color broadcast during regular hours or weekdays, dad invited him to our house on Sunday night to watch NBC (Walt Disney I believe it was).

The man sat quietly for an hour and when the show was over, stood up and told my dad that he came to laugh at the color TV. He never expected to see something so beautiful as what he saw that night.

I don't recall if the man bought a color TV or not (dad is gone now almost 20 years so I can't ask him), but I always got a kick out of that story.

John

Great story! Seeing a color TV for the first time will have that effect. Similar experience for me at my Uncle’s house. I told this story before. He invited the family over for dinner, Sat or Sunday. He had it planned, after dinner we all gathered around his new pride and joy, a color television! It was Summer, 1956, I was 9. He turned it on and my jaw dropped. A Special was on.

Was your Dad a tech or good with electronics?

[JohnCT]

Originally Posted by etype2

Was your Dad a tech or good with electronics?

My father was a staff sergeant in WWII (Third Armored), and one of his duties was to take care of the radios and other wired communications. After the war, dad took radio and TV courses through the GI bill and opened up the family business which I still run. Dad was a very good tech, but he was smart enough to have 5 sons..

Here's another true story. My older brother is truly gifted and brilliant. Electronics is a hobby for him. His career was as a research chemist. He holds a patent on plated through hole chemistry. Anyway, my dad used to take him to TV service seminars when he was 12 or so. During one of the service seminars (Motorola I believe it was), the presentation was color theory followed by questions from the Motorola engineer. My brother kept sticking his hand up to answer. The Motorola engineer's assistant came over to my dad and told him to keep the kid quiet as he was embarrassing the other seasoned techs who were struggling with the new technology.

By the time he was in high school, my brother was my dad's bench tech. By the time my brother got a full time job for a large chemical corp, I was at the age and took over.

But my father was thorough and taught us a lot about TV and life in general. He had more common sense than any person I ever met. If I could spend just one more day with my father, I'd pick a day when I worked with him.

John

[etype2]

Originally Posted by JohnCT

My father was a staff sergeant in WWII (Third Armored), and one of his duties was to take care of the radios and other wired communications. After the war, dad took radio and TV courses through the GI bill and opened up the family business which I still run. Dad was a very good tech, but he was smart enough to have 5 sons..

Here's another true story. My older brother is truly gifted and brilliant. Electronics is a hobby for him. His career was as a research chemist. He holds a patent on plated through hole chemistry. Anyway, my dad used to take him to TV service seminars when he was 12 or so. During one of the service seminars (Motorola I believe it was), the presentation was color theory followed by questions from the Motorola engineer. My brother kept sticking his hand up to answer. The Motorola engineer's assistant came over to my dad and told him to keep the kid quiet as he was embarrassing the other seasoned techs who were struggling with the new technology.

By the time he was in high school, my brother was my dad's bench tech. By the time my brother got a full time job for a large chemical corp, I was at the age and took over.

But my father was thorough and taught us a lot about TV and life in general. He had more common sense than any person I ever met. If I could spend just one more day with my father, I'd pick a day when I worked with him.

John

I can feel the pride and love you have for your father. I asked the question, because that is why the color looked great on the Admiral.