Early color required a touch most customers didn't have.

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My Mom had the opinion that color tv was not good for you, would kill you if you sat too
close, and generally just was not ready for home use. I use to always watch color in awe
at Sears like most folks back then.... I don't know if they all had B&W, but back in the
early 70's lots of people stood there watching tv in the store, for an hour or more....

Well we didn't get a color set till '76 it was a 15" sears set made by Sanyo. One button
color, AFT, cruise, automatic PS and radials.... It worked flawlessly for over 14 years.
it was also our first transistor set.... Mom use to want to unplug it at night because
it came on instantly....

In those years before our first color set, once in a while I would bring home a color
floor model, fix it, and keep it in the patio where we would watch it for a few hours now and then.

My first one had a not too bright 23EGP22, and I still thought it had quite a good
picture, and I also found that even with no auto color the set did not need regular
fiddln' with to have a really good picture for weeks on end, and from channel to channel...
I think the fiddlers had more trouble than those who did not fiddle.....
And a properly set up tv did have a really good picture....


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