TV history..(I love old TVs)

[SoCalDem]

http://www.tvhistory.tv/index.html

[Crazy Guggenheim]

1. ......

[Oeditpus Rex]

2. Oooo!

I am so bookmarking this! :bounce:

[SoCalDem]

3. I did too.. I love this stuff

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. This is the one we had when I was little

Or a lot like it, anyway. I know it was a Zenith, and it had a dark-brown rectangular cloth speaker grille on the bottom, with a little door between the off-on-volume knob and channel selector (2-13, of course) that folded down to get to the horizontal hold, vertical hold, brightness and contrast controls. I don't remember those buttons above the screen, though.

[SoCalDem]

6. We didn't even HAVE tv until 1962

Panamanian channels were not that appealing (did they even HAVE TV then:shrug:..)

We had armed forces radio and that was it..

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. I think we got about four channels

Maybe.

I know we got KSBW because it was in town; it was NBC and CBS. And KNTV in San Jose (ABC), and maybe a couple of San Francisco stations.

When cable came along — must've been about 1964 or '65 — oh, man, that was amazing. We got like 15 channels!

[NMMNG]

4. Wow

A screen half the size of a business card? That must have made for difficult viewing. Of course now people are doing that again with cell phones that receive tv broadcasts (not that I could be bothered with viewing on something that tiny).

Thanks for the link, it was fun to check out! :thumbsup: