I remember when colour TV was first launched, my Dad not would entertain having colour TV, claimed it was not natural, black and white was perfect, hmm I wonder if he was colour blind, how the feck can colour not be natural, the world is full of colour, natural colour or have those bastard gremlins been out again with their blasted tins of paint to fool us?
Your Father and my Father must have talked. He wouldn't buy a color TV either. Because they were unreliable, which is true but beside the point. It wasn't until 1974 when I moved out on my own that I bought a color TV.
My grandfather, an otherwise technologically savvy old bastard (He was a master machinist before and after the war... a natural-born engineer, but trade-schooled instead of white-collar schooled) would leave the color off to "save it" for movies and feetsball games.
No lie.
It wasn't until I was in my teens taking my Electronics Tech & Engineering coursework, with my own job, and I promised him that if the color went out I'd BUY HIM A NEW SET, that he permitted the color to be left on all the time. By this time, he had a Curtis-Mathis (Rebranded RCA, IIRC) 32" console that was 100% solid-state/IC, so was literally a huge tube, one PCB and speakers in a cavernous empty wooden cabinet like a cedar chest. He was crazy pleased with himself for getting that lumbering dinosaur of a set at Colortyme...
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I used to hide all sorts of crap in there...