Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I had one of those early RCA color sets. As I remember it had a 12" screen in a giant console cabinet and two chassis full of tubes - 38 tubes in all, I think. It was nearly impossible to keep aligned. I got very good at degaussing, setting up the color purity magnets, and reconverging it. With regular monthly tune ups it produced really sweet pictures if watched in a dim room. I loved it and hated to see it go. Never had a set that produced such nice color until the first Sony Trinitrons appeared. I remember buying it used for a couple of hundred bucks so I could watch Star Trek in color. Regards, Dick r.s.taylor_post at comcast.net On May 4, 2009, at 3:26 AM, Henning Wulff wrote: > At 4:58 PM -0500 5/3/09, Sonny Carter wrote: >> I went to the 1958 Brussels World's Fair. >> >> They had a display with a copy of the Sputnik in the USSR >> Pavillion. They >> also had a receiver that would pick up the beeps. >> >> In the American Pavillion, you could eat a real hamburger, (hard to >> get then >> in Europe). >> >> I also saw my first Color TV broadcast in the NBC Studio; actually, >> I think >> it was closed circuit. It was nice to be in air conditioning. >> >> -- >> Regards, >> >> Sonny > > > I had (have) some relatives in New York, on City Island. They had a > colour tv set in 1957, and I remember one of my uncles lying in > front of it twiddling with the controls, trying to get the colour > balance within 50 units of acceptable. I don't remember him in any > other position. > > I don't know how much it cost at that time, but they had lots of > money. As I recall, tv seemed to be their life. > > -- > > * Henning J. Wulff > /|\ Wulff Photography & Design > /###\ mailto:henningw at archiphoto.com > |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information