Do not adjust

[gothika]

On a similar note, what age were you when you learned how to tell time ? It's
getting older and older.

Thinking about it, when VCRs are out and it's all DVD, DVR, TIVO and DVD
burner, there will be generations that never heard of recording tape.

BTW, does anyone know what hapened to that online museum of video, the one that
shows the Ampex job and the English built thing on which the tape whizzed along
(did not have rotary heads) ? I thought it was pretty cool.

Anyway, another generation or two will have never seen a CRT.

In case you want to know my age, well I cut my teeth on a CTC25, I found the
bad grommet connection that went bad and caused loss of filament voltage to the
pair of 6GU7s that were the -Y amps and the blanker. This was before I ever had
a job, but after my grandfather couldn't find the problem. No we weren't TV
techs, but we never called one. The type of people who fix things for
themselves.

Seems you and are cut from the same cloth.
I did grow up in an appliance repair shop.(the kind that fixed
everything from toasters/vacuums to radios and tv's. Back before the
term "television Repair Shop" had become part of the vernacular.)
The experience primed me for the rest of my life.
Haven't had anything in a repair shop ever. Either I fix it or it
doesn't get fixed.
From home appliances to the family autos, I service them all.

A far cry from today. Remember those Star Treks in which aliens had forgotten
how to fix the machine left by their ancestors ? Kinda prophetic in a way.I
swear I know people who do not know how to change a tire.

Yup, pretty soon all the youngsters will be walking around in the rain
staring upward.

BTW-"There is nothjing wrong with your television set, do not adjust the
picture.

We will control the vertical, we will control the horizontal.

We can _____________ to a soft blur, or sharpen it to crystal clarity.

We back and for the next hour we will control all that you see and hear.

____________ that reaches from the inner mind to the outer limits."

Heck, Whoever says that the original "Outer Limits" is "old" betrays
their own age.
That was one of my favorite shows along with "The Invaders" if anybody
here can remember that one.

 

[Ken Weitzel]

Seems you and are cut from the same cloth.
I did grow up in an appliance repair shop.(the kind that fixed
everything from toasters/vacuums to radios and tv's. Back before the
term "television Repair Shop" had become part of the vernacular.)
The experience primed me for the rest of my life.
Haven't had anything in a repair shop ever. Either I fix it or it
doesn't get fixed.
From home appliances to the family autos, I service them all.



Yup, pretty soon all the youngsters will be walking around in the rain
staring upward.



Heck, Whoever says that the original "Outer Limits" is "old" betrays
their own age.
That was one of my favorite shows along with "The Invaders" if anybody
here can remember that one.

Hi...

I think I might be able to get away with calling
both of you two "young pups" - still a bit wet behind
the ears

Nice memories though...

Ken

 

[gothika]

Hi...

I think I might be able to get away with calling
both of you two "young pups" - still a bit wet behind
the ears

Nice memories though...

Ken

Touche. There's always someone who's walked a bit farther or gained a
bit more in knowledge.

 

[Tim Perry]

I can just see "The TV Tech From The Outer Limits!".

here's a scary story line: a mild mannered engineer wakes up one day to
find all technology he knows had been replaced by a digital black box and a
computer..... oops, that's already happening

 

[LASERandDVDfan]

here's a scary story line: a mild mannered engineer wakes up one day to

find all technology he knows had been replaced by a digital black box and a
computer..... oops, that's already happening

I've heard of an amusing anecdote given to a tech class I was in back in high
school concerning computers.

This guest lectuerer was woman who had given a lecture a few years back about
the possible future applications of comptuers. She mentioned automotive uses
when she was interrupted by a seasoned mechanic.

The mechanic's final declaration of computers in cars: "Ain't gonna happen." -
Reinhart

 

[Tim Perry]

I've heard of an amusing anecdote given to a tech class I was in back in high
school concerning computers.

This guest lectuerer was woman who had given a lecture a few years back about
the possible future applications of comptuers. She mentioned automotive uses
when she was interrupted by a seasoned mechanic.

The mechanic's final declaration of computers in cars: "Ain't gonna happen." -
Reinhart

now the mechanics are called diagnosticians and use computers to test the
computers.... "the brain is dead, Jim, but the Chevy still lives"