the RCA you could shuffle your feet across the floor and touch the buttons
to reset the channel programming.


On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 1:54 PM Chuck McCown via AF <[email protected]> wrote:

> We could sometimes stomp just right.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nate Burke
> Sent: Thursday, July 8, 2021 12:51 PM
> To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Hey Bill
>
> Depended on how hard Dad hit the TV.  It was only in color when it felt
> like it.  With a good Smack, sometimes you could get an entire program
> in color.
>
> On 7/8/2021 1:42 PM, Chuck McCown via AF wrote:
> > I remember waiting for the NBC peacock because much of the programming
> was
> > still in black and white.  It was fun to see black and white content
> > strobing into color if they had a tight pattern like checks or stripes
> and
> > they moved too fast.  At some point there was a color killer circuit
> added
> > to TVs that would prevent that when there was no color burst present in
> > the video waveform.
> >
> > -----Original Message----- From: Jan-GAMs
> > Sent: Thursday, July 8, 2021 8:06 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Hey Bill
> >
> > About 1963, a birthday and getwell party for a classmate, got to see
> > Hoss in full color on Bonanza!  He had fallen onto some exposed rebar at
> > a construction site.  Broke a rib and missed his lung.  I didn't know
> > you could lose that much blood and live!
> >
> > On 7/8/21 4:36 AM, Mark Radabaugh wrote:
> >> Around 1974 when my parents bought one. Probably a bit earlier for
> “seen
> >> one”  - I think my grandparents had one before that.   And that cool
> >> ‘Radar Range”.
> >>
> >> Mark
> >>
> >>> On Jul 7, 2021, at 10:09 PM, Chuck McCown via AF <[email protected]>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> When was the first time you saw color TV?  I saw it at a neighbor’s
> >>> house Apollo 10.
> >>>
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