Met up with freakaftr8 (Shawn)

[kx250rider]

Originally Posted by David Roper

I was about 10 when I got my first old TV, a ca 1951 17" tabletop. As fluid as my collection has been over the years I still have that old Motorola.

I'm 'bout youz guyz age, so it's scary to realize the first pre-war TVs I ever saw (at Henry Ford Museum) were at the time as old as the earliest VCRs are now.

Wow.

I still have my first set too... A Magnavox 23" early 60s table model with remote. It lost vertical sweep in about 1978, and I've been A-gonna fix it all these years. Since then, it's been through a house fire, been moved 10 times, and survived the Northridge Earthquake. It's lost it's safety glass, has some scrapes and bruises, but I still have it!

And about being scary that a VCR today is about as old as the prewar you saw.... How about this: One of my trucks is now registered as a California Historical Vehicle, is insured as an antique, and I'm old enough to have bought it new

Charles