"Matt Mc_Carthy" bravely wrote to "Joe Nicholson" (13
Nov 03  00:59:47)
 --- on the heady topic of "Color TV (was music)"

 MM> The really strange ones were the ones with the 'large screen'.  A 15",
 MM> 50 pound hunk of magnifying glass bolted in front of a 9" picture
 MM> tube.  The only way it could be viewed was to be dead in front of the
 MM> TV, and the whole family always huddled tight in that one spot.
 MM> Naturally I picked a friend with plenty of sisters when I wanted to
 MM> watch TV.   :-))
 MM> Today such a magnifying glass would probably cost twice the price of
 MM> the TV set itself.

I think I actually saw something like that once. Do you remember looking
at TV in a mirror? The tv had the crt mounted vertically pointing up and
the top lid flipped open at 45 degrees to reveal a mirror under the lid.

But the cheesiest had to be in the late 50's or early 60's where one
could buy a transparent plastic overlay to place over the crt. The top
was tinted blue and the bottom green. It worked great with outdoor
scenes such as in "Daniel Boone" with Fess Parker but it made Ed
Sullivan look bizarre. Thank God for pot or we would never had gotten
over the horror.

 Mike
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... Back when I was a boy, we sucked the air out of our own vacuum tubes!
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