Re: Do not adjust

From: Ken Weitzel (kweitzel_at_shaw.ca)
Date: 06/25/04 

Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 00:07:54 GMT

gothika wrote:

> 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
>

Hi...

I think I might be able to get away with calling
both of you two "young pups" - still a bit wet behind
the ears :)

Nice memories though...

Ken

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