Yeahbut, they all did it, especially the color TVs. I presume aquadag is autocorrect for Anode.
From: Bill Prince Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2019 5:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT 50 years ago The aquadag HV on early TVs was a common source of problems. Get a little dust on the top of the TV's cathode tube, and you'd get these periodic "snap!" sounds when it would discharge through the dust. bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 7/20/2019 12:49 PM, [email protected] wrote: It was TV of the mind. I didn’t want to risk going into the house on the off chance that the B&W TV would actually work. It was terribly flakey. Had some kind of HV problem where it would go very dark after a few minutes. So I stuck to the radio. From: Bill Prince Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2019 1:16 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT 50 years ago We had a Buick too, but ours didn't have a TV, so we had to watch it on our black and white TV in the house. -- bp part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 8:53 AM Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote: I watched the moon landing on the radio of a 1965 Buick Special. -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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