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How many yall still use old tv's?

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<font color=3333ff>I got a 1977 Sears Solid State b&w 13" that I still use daily! Got it when I was 10, my neighbor wanted to throw it away. (its a couple years younger than me!)

A few times I had it hooked up in various places where I still used the analog dials, but it's been in the spare bedroom/office/computer room hooked up to a cheap cable box.

How many of you still use a old tv and where is it at?
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> I got a 1977 Sears Solid State b&w 13" that I still use
> daily! Got it when I was 10, my neighbor wanted to throw it
> away. (its a couple years younger than me!)
>
> A few times I had it hooked up in various places where I
> still used the analog dials, but it's been in the spare
> bedroom/office/computer room hooked up to a cheap cable box.
>
>
> How many of you still use a old tv and where is it at?

I haven't used it in a long time, but I still have a functioning 17" B&W Montgomery Wards (allegedly) portable that was purchased new in 1971.
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> > I got a 1977 Sears Solid State b&w 13" that I still use
> > daily! Got it when I was 10, my neighbor wanted to throw
> it
> > away. (its a couple years younger than me!)
> >
> > A few times I had it hooked up in various places where I
> > still used the analog dials, but it's been in the spare
> > bedroom/office/computer room hooked up to a cheap cable
> box.
> >
> >
> > How many of you still use a old tv and where is it at?
>
> I haven't used it in a long time, but I still have a
> functioning 17" B&W Montgomery Wards (allegedly) portable
> that was purchased new in 1971.
>
I have a friend that I sometimes stay with in Boston who has an old 15" B & W Zenith. It has the dials and everything. I have no idea how old it is, but I imagine it's early 70's. Sometimes I have to jiggle the knobs to get a clear picure, but other than that, it too works fine!

As for me, I rely on two 80's built RCA XL-100's in my house!
 
I still have the 1977 Mitsuba 19" dial tune color TV that I grew up watching...It doesn't get used much, but it still works like a champ! Does a great job pulling in weak signals, much better than modern digital tune sets seem to. I've logged an awful lot of DX over the years with that set, with just simple rabbit ears.

> > > I got a 1977 Sears Solid State b&w 13" that I still use
> > > daily! Got it when I was 10, my neighbor wanted to
> throw
> > it
> > > away. (its a couple years younger than me!)
> > >
> > > A few times I had it hooked up in various places where I
>
> > > still used the analog dials, but it's been in the spare
> > > bedroom/office/computer room hooked up to a cheap cable
> > box.
> > >
> > >
> > > How many of you still use a old tv and where is it at?
> >
> > I haven't used it in a long time, but I still have a
> > functioning 17" B&W Montgomery Wards (allegedly) portable
> > that was purchased new in 1971.
> >
> I have a friend that I sometimes stay with in Boston who has
> an old 15" B & W Zenith. It has the dials and everything. I
> have no idea how old it is, but I imagine it's early 70's.
> Sometimes I have to jiggle the knobs to get a clear picure,
> but other than that, it too works fine!
>
> As for me, I rely on two 80's built RCA XL-100's in my
> house!
>
 
> How many of you still use a old tv and where is it at?

I've got an old 13" Panasonic color TV that I bought in 1977 that still works fine as a bedroom TV. It's amazing to think of all the changes in the world since I bought that set in high school...
 
> > > > How many of you still use a old tv and where is it at?

A friend of mine has a 1970s era RCA ColorTrack TV in his living room he feeds with a VCR. Another friend of mine has a 1980s vintage RCA Lyceum TV in his dorm room that he bought off the university for surplus and also feeds it with a VCR (b/c even after taking the damn thing apart and futzing with it, we couldn't make the tuner work - we ended up using the bnc composite video connection :p )
 
I still have a working 13 inch BW tv from the 70's that my grandparents gave me in the 80's when they bought a new color tv. It still has a Hostess Munchies Twisted sister sticker on the side of it that I put there back in 84'.
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"If you never say NO, How much is your YES worth?"
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I do!

I have a Sharp Linytron TV set that was (presumably) built in '87 or '88.

In summer '88, my aunt bought this TV set for my grandmother.

On December 27, 1989, my grandmother died and the TV set eventually ended up in my sister's bedroom. It usually stayed there--though it was in my bedroom a few times--until 2000. That year, she gave it to me. Since then, it has almost always stayed in my bedroom. Even today, it still works. (In 2002, I hooked a VCR up to it.) But I'm sure it won't work forever. I'll definitely need a new TV set...eventually!
 
DX and old TV's !!

> I still have the 1977 Mitsuba 19" dial tune color TV that I
> grew up watching...It doesn't get used much, but it still
> works like a champ! Does a great job pulling in weak
> signals, much better than modern digital tune sets seem to.
> I've logged an awful lot of DX over the years with that set,
> with just simple rabbit ears.

<font color=3333ff>Don't you just LOVE them old TV's that just GRAB the distant signals like nothing else!!! The lil Sears that I was talking about in the first post has soooo much DX logged on it it's ridiculous !!

I think the best reception I ever got on it, was on Memorial Day 1990. For some reason I woke up early, and at 4am I started playing with the TV. I don't even think at the time I had my big wire arial push-pinned to my ceiling. It was just going off the regular stick antenna with a coat hanger in it. If I moved the antenna to one direction, I got KCNC-4 from Denver! If I moved it to the other direction, I got KTVX-4 !!!! And I knew it was both of them cuz they both had their test pads up with logos!

In Chicago, Ch.2 has always been a crappy signal. Well, many nights (and days) there was always something trying to interfere with Chicago 2........ but I could NEVER get a clear enough signal to identify the signal that was coming over it. I got it close enuf to where I could see a program on screen without sound. Still gets me that I couldn't figure out what "2" was coming over Chicago 2.

I LOVE this lil TV! It works better for skip than the stoopid 1997 digital Magnavox I bought brand new.
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Up until a few months ago we had a Magnavox console TV (with a 32 inch screen)from about 1986 (including the HUGE remote control for it). It still worked fine except it only went up to about Channel 52 or so.<P ID="signature">______________
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