What compelled people in the 80's to have their tv on the floor?

[bobdole369]

Originally posted by: AmigaMan
Originally posted by: Minerva
Here's our old one

Still sitting in the basement. I took that picture a few minutes ago!

I have no idea if it still works. It was last turned on in 1990.

Anyone rember Curtis Mathes?


LOL! That brought back some memories. I remember my parents buying a Curtis Mathis at the local store and we thought we were the shiznit back then. Sigh, it's sad though that they've since upgraded to a 37" HD LCD TV and I'm still on a 32" CRT


Trust me, if you have 20/20 vision or better, you do not want and LCD TV.

Must not want a LCD computer monitor either?

I agree. CRT > LCD in most cases. Now that they've ceased production the world cries just a little bit. I cannot STAND LCD monitors. Inaccurate colors, unreliable ghosty crap images, only works well in one resolution....

Now the few HD CRT's that are out there - those are tasty! Too bad they are so bloody heavy it costs more to ship than the unit itself.

 

[bobdole369]

Very often the "console" contained a hi-fi and a turntable or 8-track player and speakers as well. Quite often the TV was repaired by replacing the tube with a completely different set - but the same console. My grandparents had a set like this until the mid-90's when they died and my pothead uncle took over the house. He still has it.

 

[bobdole369]

Sphinx - you and I think alike. Do you happen to use a film camera too?

 

[Old Hippie]

I remember in the late 80s my Dad bought a Zenith kit and put the TV together himself.

Zenith made a kit......in the late 80s?

NM.....

In 1979, Zenith acquired the Heath Company, the world's largest manufacturer of build-it-yourself electronic kit products for hobbyists. Capitalizing on Heath's entry into personal computers, Zenith formed Zenith Data Systems in 1980. Zenith's management built the computer business into a billion-plus-dollar operation by the late 1980s and sold the business in 1989.

 

[Minerva]

Heathkits rocked!
My grandfather had every weather station kit and a lot of their HAM stuff.

 

[Rock Hydra]

Pic from my couch.

TV

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: Yreka
The fact that they weighed 2,700 lbs probably had something to do with it.

This is the correct answer. And it wasn't in the 80s, it was the 70s. A color console TV > 19" from that era could weigh as much as an upright piano. Plus they were considered furniture. There was a different mindset than today.

We didn't have a console TV in my house growing up in the 70s though. We had a Heathkit color TV until my dad replaced it a more modern set (with remote control!) circa 1984. And my dad was always funny about TV watching as it was, the Heathkit had a lock-and-key to turn it on.

 

[coldmeat]

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: LTC8K6
Those TV's were a stand for other crap that went on top...

Usually another TV when that TV went out.

:laugh: My grandma had hers break and now there's an LCD sitting on top.

 

[UberNeuman]

Just be glad you never had to run out to the drugstore to get a new tube for the tv......


/those were the days......

 

[Jodell88]

Originally posted by: Robsasman
http://williamsager.files.word...2008/03/old-tv-set.jpg

We had one like this, I took all the insides out and put an aquarium in it.

Pics? I always wanted to do one.

 

[imported_Lothar]

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: Mo0o

Originally posted by: Minerva
Here's our old one

Still sitting in the basement. I took that picture a few minutes ago! :Q

I have no idea if it still works. It was last turned on in 1990.

Anyone rember Curtis Mathes?

I think theres an ATOTer who would love to take it off your hands if you offer him a hot deal

shipping kills the hot deal

Craigslist can take care of that.