Re: Do not adjust

From: gothika (Vampyres_at_nettaxi.com)
Date: 06/24/04 

Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 18:49:58 -0500

On 24 Jun 2004 23:19:39 GMT, jurb6006@aol.com (JURB6006) wrote:

>On a similar note, what age were you when you learned how to tell time ? It's
>getting older and older.
>
>Thinking about it, when VCRs are out and it's all DVD, DVR, TIVO and DVD
>burner, there will be generations that never heard of recording tape.
>
>BTW, does anyone know what hapened to that online museum of video, the one that
>shows the Ampex job and the English built thing on which the tape whizzed along
>(did not have rotary heads) ? I thought it was pretty cool.
>
>Anyway, another generation or two will have never seen a CRT.
>
>In case you want to know my age, well I cut my teeth on a CTC25, I found the
>bad grommet connection that went bad and caused loss of filament voltage to the
>pair of 6GU7s that were the -Y amps and the blanker. This was before I ever had
>a job, but after my grandfather couldn't find the problem. No we weren't TV
>techs, but we never called one. The type of people who fix things for
>themselves.
Seems you and are cut from the same cloth.
I did grow up in an appliance repair shop.(the kind that fixed
everything from toasters/vacuums to radios and tv's. Back before the
term "television Repair Shop" had become part of the vernacular.)
The experience primed me for the rest of my life.
Haven't had anything in a repair shop ever. Either I fix it or it
doesn't get fixed.
>From home appliances to the family autos, I service them all.

>
>A far cry from today. Remember those Star Treks in which aliens had forgotten
>how to fix the machine left by their ancestors ? Kinda prophetic in a way.I
>swear I know people who do not know how to change a tire.
>
Yup, pretty soon all the youngsters will be walking around in the rain
staring upward.
>BTW-"There is nothjing wrong with your television set, do not adjust the
>picture.
>
>We will control the vertical, we will control the horizontal.
>
>We can _____________ to a soft blur, or sharpen it to crystal clarity.
>
>We back and for the next hour we will control all that you see and hear.
>
>____________ that reaches from the inner mind to the outer limits."

Heck, Whoever says that the original "Outer Limits" is "old" betrays
their own age.
That was one of my favorite shows along with "The Invaders" if anybody
here can remember that one.
>
>I also remember the original name of the street in Cleveland that they renamed
>to Marti Luther King Jr Blvd.
>
>Forget the two cents, I'm too old to enjoy it anyway.
>
>JURB

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