Old Friends
Feb. 1st, 2012 11:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
laura_seabrookI've chucked out two old TVs which I've had for years but will no longer be useful once there's only digital TV here, as neither can run from a set top box easily.
The Sharp three-in-one TV which I bought in 1979. I originally bought it as a monitor for my Dick Smith System-80 (which was a TRS-80 clone), but it worked better as a B&W portable TV. It was the first TV I've ever owned. In the past I've had this and my Lemair TV on a l-o-n-g extension cord running in the backyard. The cassette player stopped working in 1989 but the TV and radio still worked (after a fashion).
The Lemair colour TV which I bought in 1983. It still worked on three channels (NBN, ABC, and whatever you selected on the UHF dial) but on humid and wet days it would give you a shock if you touched it with your bare hand! I At age 26, I had measles when I bought this. Not a good state to buy something in!
The Sharp three-in-one TV which I bought in 1979. I originally bought it as a monitor for my Dick Smith System-80 (which was a TRS-80 clone), but it worked better as a B&W portable TV. It was the first TV I've ever owned. In the past I've had this and my Lemair TV on a l-o-n-g extension cord running in the backyard. The cassette player stopped working in 1989 but the TV and radio still worked (after a fashion).
The Lemair colour TV which I bought in 1983. It still worked on three channels (NBN, ABC, and whatever you selected on the UHF dial) but on humid and wet days it would give you a shock if you touched it with your bare hand! I At age 26, I had measles when I bought this. Not a good state to buy something in!
