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The Don of Croy said:
Our first colour television in 1973'ish, Dad relented and hired one of these;
- a massive 13 inches of diagonal pleasure (fnar fnar) that we as a family of five watched from across the other side of the living room (much the same dims as my current lounge where we watch a 42" version).
How the hell did we ever see what was going on? Better eyesight I suppose. Tuning in manually to each of the three channels, it never went wrong and lasted about 10 years iirc (before we moved out of the rental co's area).
The television picture I copied from this interesting website;
https://www.rewindmuseum.com/vintagetv.htm
As mentioned above, I used to sell and deliver TVs. My first job in 1974. Got the job because I got to use the Transit delivery van in my spare time (for the band of course).- a massive 13 inches of diagonal pleasure (fnar fnar) that we as a family of five watched from across the other side of the living room (much the same dims as my current lounge where we watch a 42" version).
How the hell did we ever see what was going on? Better eyesight I suppose. Tuning in manually to each of the three channels, it never went wrong and lasted about 10 years iirc (before we moved out of the rental co's area).
The television picture I copied from this interesting website;
https://www.rewindmuseum.com/vintagetv.htm
The Sony Trinitron was by far the best set sold. National Panasonic was also good (Japanese of course). Grundig were ok, but ITT and Phillips were just dreadful. (Assembled in UK) We had to open and 'tune in' the sets and up to 40% of them didn't work out of the box, and were just sent back.
40%!
As we all know, it was the same with British cars. Many turned up and had endless problems in the 70s (not that I could afford one on £26 a week!)
The Don of Croy said:
Our first colour television in 1973'ish, Dad relented and hired one of these;
- a massive 13 inches of diagonal pleasure (fnar fnar) that we as a family of five watched from across the other side of the living room (much the same dims as my current lounge where we watch a 42" version).
How the hell did we ever see what was going on? Better eyesight I suppose. Tuning in manually to each of the three channels, it never went wrong and lasted about 10 years iirc (before we moved out of the rental co's area).
The television picture I copied from this interesting website;
https://www.rewindmuseum.com/vintagetv.htm
Our first colour TV was the portable version of that. About the same era, early 1970’s- a massive 13 inches of diagonal pleasure (fnar fnar) that we as a family of five watched from across the other side of the living room (much the same dims as my current lounge where we watch a 42" version).
How the hell did we ever see what was going on? Better eyesight I suppose. Tuning in manually to each of the three channels, it never went wrong and lasted about 10 years iirc (before we moved out of the rental co's area).
The television picture I copied from this interesting website;
https://www.rewindmuseum.com/vintagetv.htm
motco said:
I built a Heathkit open reel tape recorder from a kit in the early 1970s:
It came as a load of discrete components, a bare PCB, cabinet, and tape deck. Took hours to build but still works to this day.
Heathkit!!! I bet you sit and look at that, stroking your beard in satisfaction!It came as a load of discrete components, a bare PCB, cabinet, and tape deck. Took hours to build but still works to this day.
Dog Star said:
motco said:
I built a Heathkit open reel tape recorder from a kit in the early 1970s:
It came as a load of discrete components, a bare PCB, cabinet, and tape deck. Took hours to build but still works to this day.
Heathkit!!! I bet you sit and look at that, stroking your beard in satisfaction!It came as a load of discrete components, a bare PCB, cabinet, and tape deck. Took hours to build but still works to this day.
The Don of Croy said:
Our first colour television ...
I remember coming home from school and watching the colour test transmissions on BBC2 (the only colour broadcasts at the time).I must have watched the same ones dozens of times; colour TV was just amazing.
This is them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_test_colour_fi... so must have been late 60's / early 70's
Edited by Nimby on Friday 16th February 15:55
I remember when the house a few doors up got a colour TV. Every kid in the street crammed into their front room to watch cartoons in colour. The like of which we'd never seen before.
Few years back was sitting in the barbers with my young daughter watching the TV awaiting her turn when she said. "Daddy there's something wrong with the telly" She'd never seen a black and white TV before so assumed it was broken.
Few years back was sitting in the barbers with my young daughter watching the TV awaiting her turn when she said. "Daddy there's something wrong with the telly" She'd never seen a black and white TV before so assumed it was broken.
GetCarter said:
techiedave said:
Our TV from the 1970s
Once I went down to Thorn consumer electronics in Derby Street in Manchester to pick up 50 Bush sets, after my boss had bribed the allocation manager with a bottle of whisky to allocate our firm 50, because there was a 6 month waiting list.
Anyhows, I crammed all 50 into the back of my LWB Transit, set off back to the warehouse, but unfortunately the back doors flew open on the M62 and four sets fell out of the back and smashed to smitherines all over the fast lane at 80mph......
My boss was not best pleased.
On another occasion he said "Wacky, get one of those top of the range AEG washing machines off the shelf and take it up to my house and leave it in my kitchen"
He lived in a beautiful huge house in nearby Prestbury, so I took the washer in, but thought I would "help him out" by plumbing it in for him as, he had just had a mega kitchen fitted with VERY expensive Italian tiled flooring.
So, I fitted it in, attached the water pipes, but didn't realise you needed to REMOVE THE TRANSIT BARS under the lid before use.......I switched it on to make sure everything was working OK, and it started shaking and shaking and shaking, and SHAKING and SHAKING, until it ripped up several of his newly fitted tiles and cracked about ten of them before I could get to the off switch......
Needless to say, he wasn't a happy bunny.........
techiedave said:
Gunk said:
Great memories of Wings, Venus & Mars belting out at full volume
Good grief Venus and Mars was actually my first "proper" album bought for me. I remember being surprised at the last track being Crossroads theme tune.bristolracer said:
Remembering the test card
So the TV techs and aerial erectors could tune in the TV as there were no daytime broadcasts.
Not seen a live broadcast test card in many years now,still used in studios but I dont think they used for transmissions any more
I still use it when I'm offlineSo the TV techs and aerial erectors could tune in the TV as there were no daytime broadcasts.
Not seen a live broadcast test card in many years now,still used in studios but I dont think they used for transmissions any more
GetCarter said:
bristolracer said:
Remembering the test card
So the TV techs and aerial erectors could tune in the TV as there were no daytime broadcasts.
Not seen a live broadcast test card in many years now,still used in studios but I dont think they used for transmissions any more
I still use it when I'm offlineSo the TV techs and aerial erectors could tune in the TV as there were no daytime broadcasts.
Not seen a live broadcast test card in many years now,still used in studios but I dont think they used for transmissions any more
I really want to take my videotape back to Scotch (re-record not fade away) as they promise a lifetime recording or a new tape.
DDg said:
techiedave said:
Our TV from the 1970s
Edited by DDg on Friday 16th February 15:30
sidaorb said:
All these old pics of airguns reminds me of my first air pistol
I remember it well.2" barrel, tilting, for the loading of 1 x .177 pellet, or tipping further back to 'collect' a .177 BB from the magazine that held about 30.
I took mine to bits in an attempt (it didn't end well) to stretch the spring. It was a bit gutless on the power scale.
Webley premier next. One at a time with no fast reloads but managed to get past the 20 yard marker.
Riley Blue said:
That's a Philips, I used to sell them - and Akai, Bush, Ferguson, GEC, Grundig, Hitachi, JVC, Panasonic, Pye, Roberts, Sanyo, Sony, Technics - I'm sure I've missed a few.
ITT. We had an ITT CK651, or something similar.
Featured 'Tint Control'; advertised with a picture of a Native American with the tag line "so all your redskins don't turn out to be palefaces".
Halmyre said:
...ITT. We had an ITT CK651, or something similar...
When I was young enough to see that brand it was discombobulating to hear the same crowd were somehow implicated in third World dictatorships (ITT being part of the backing for Pinochet and acting with the CIA).Buy a TV and overthrow communism all in one transaction.
My last CRT left our house just ten years ago - all 65Kg of Sony fabulousness removed by those nice men from John Lewis who delivered the plasma (remember them??). With a 32" screen and in-built sub woofer it dominated one corner of the room, and had five scart sockets (profligate or what?).
Another thought - is it just me or did contemporary TV/films overlook smoking (being as it was an everyday habit for the majority), but when I watch a modern drama set in that period smoking is much, much more obvious? I'm watching Mad Men at the mo...
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