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Posted: 3/19/2019 9:37:21 PM EDT
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Early 80's I think.
It was Sylvania Superset. |
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Posted: 3/19/2019 9:37:48 PM EDT
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Fall of 1974. Back then all the new Saturday morning cartoon seasons debuted the same day. Dad bought the color TV on Friday night. I was so proud I called my buddy (party line!) and he came over to watch Scooby Doo in color (I've gotten like no sleep  
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Posted: 3/19/2019 9:37:54 PM EDT
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Not old enough to remember first color, but do remember having a black and white TV |
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Posted: 3/19/2019 9:41:16 PM EDT
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If you like vintage TV nostalgia, I recommend Youtube channel host "FredFlix."
He uploads all kinds of it. Example:  ABC''s Movie of the Week: Episodes For The 1972-73 Season |
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Posted: 3/19/2019 9:42:28 PM EDT
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No because I was moved out when they got one. In fact all my parents finer things didn't happen until we all moved out. Push button phone...extension phone...air conditioning.... I don't think I bought a tv at all until the flat panels hit Costco. The women always had one before that
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Posted: 3/19/2019 10:01:53 PM EDT
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My Grandparents had the first color TV I remember. A gigantic Zenith console. I can remember it, so I’m gonna guess very late seventies. I still had a B&W TV in my room well into the late eighties. My grandparents that lived in town were the first I remember to have cable tv. That was the mid 80’s. They got almost 20 channels. We only got 4 at the farm. The farm was only 4 miles out of town.
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Posted: 3/19/2019 10:08:10 PM EDT
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About 1977. Dad got a free as a bank premium. I think that TV is still at my parent's house and still works.
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Posted: 3/19/2019 10:27:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryHad a B&W tv in my bedroom when I was a kid. No cable, no access to the roof mounted antenna, had to rely on rabbit ears facing the World Trade Center for the 4 channels I got. Got a Commodore 64 as a communion gift and it was a bummer with the B&W tv so I saved up some money and got a "cheapie" 13" color tv (that IIRC was about $150 in 1985 bucks). Rigged up a pretty extensive antenna array in my bedroom that got me all the oddball UHF channels including a public access channel out of CT that showed "art films" (AKA softcore foreign porn) on occasion. 
I forget what brand it is, damn tv is over 30 years old and is still alive, it is in the guest bedroom at my dad's house. |
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Posted: 3/19/2019 10:33:11 PM EDT
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we (dad) got a color tv in the 70's some time
I was about 8 or so,so maybe 1975-6 I bought MY first color tv in 1984, my mom still has it in her basement, hooked up to antenna with convertor box for when the storms roll through |
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Posted: 3/19/2019 10:35:49 PM EDT
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dont remember the year. we lived next door to my fathers parents. they got a big rca victor color tv. we used to go next door on sundays to watch bonanza. that was the first or one of the first color tv shows.
i lived with black and whites for years after that and didnt mind so much. |
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Posted: 3/19/2019 10:41:42 PM EDT
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1981 or so.
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Posted: 3/19/2019 11:10:38 PM EDT
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We always had a color tv, as long as I can remember anyway. I'm 55.
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Posted: 3/19/2019 11:12:24 PM EDT
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Curtis-Mathes console TV in 1969.
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Posted: 3/19/2019 11:18:24 PM EDT
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We never had one at home. I bought my first one right after I got married to my first wife when I was almost 30...1987
I have always been more into music than TV. |
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Posted: 3/19/2019 11:19:34 PM EDT
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An RCA in the mid later 60’s. They hadn’t been out too long.
Had an Amana Radarange a few years later. Dang near took two people to carry it |
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Posted: 3/19/2019 11:21:55 PM EDT
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Just remember we got a color tv around the time Dallas was on.
I watched a few season of it on a small black and white tv. |
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Posted: 3/19/2019 11:30:28 PM EDT
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I remember my dad building one from a Heathkit set.
ETA: It was sometime around '79, I remember getting in trouble because I wanted to watch cartoons instead of the news, and I'm pretty sure the Iran Hostage situation was the big news, plus Iranian students rioting on campus in the US (Dad was an ROTC instructor at the time). |
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Posted: 3/19/2019 11:34:07 PM EDT
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I remember I was disappointed that it didn't make everything color!
Andy Griffith was still black and white on our COLOR TV |
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Posted: 3/19/2019 11:35:58 PM EDT
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I don't remember if the tv was color or not but I do remember one tv that used vacuum tubes before it died. The next tv was another wooden enclosed tv I think that it was color.
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Posted: 3/19/2019 11:38:30 PM EDT
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Early 80’s giant wood cabinet thing that was 4 feet wide for a 19” screen or so...
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Posted: 3/19/2019 11:38:55 PM EDT
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We got our color TV in the late 60's. Still only had three channels though. Our neighbors down the road had the same set that we did. When Dad drove past their house after work, their set would go total static.
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Posted: 3/19/2019 11:40:33 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/19/2019 11:41:11 PM EDT
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I was 13. It was a 32" Trinitron. A huge step up from the 19" B&W we had.
I never knew Rat Patrol was a color TV show until a year or so ago
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Posted: 3/19/2019 11:41:51 PM EDT
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Giant Zenith console sometime in the early to mid 70s. I remember going to Radio Shack with Dad where they had a tube tester and him buying replacement tubes for that and his CB rig.
That tv lasted until the mid 90s. |
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Posted: 3/20/2019 12:05:11 AM EDT
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No, I always remember having a color TV growing up. The earliest I can remember is one of those massive wooden cabinetted TVs that rested on the carpet.
I do know, that the old black and white TV went into the bedroom me and my brother shared, so we could play Nintendo on it. I remember hooking up the RF adapter to it so the composite input would work with the old tv. |
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Posted: 3/20/2019 12:17:55 AM EDT
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I was 13. It was a 32" Trinitron. A huge step up from the 19" B&W we had. I never knew Rat Patrol was a color TV show until a year or so ago 
(To be fair, I think they eventually dropped the "In Color" subtitle.) |
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Posted: 3/20/2019 12:26:58 AM EDT
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We always had a color TV in the living room growing up. The other set was an old black and white Zenith in the basement. By the time I was born color TVs were pretty mainstream. TVs in damn near every room were rare though. We always had one of the big console sets that was built like a piece of furniture up until the mid 90's.
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Posted: 3/20/2019 12:45:07 AM EDT
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I'm not old enough to have had a black and white TV. I do remember the day we got the original Nintendo, though. My Dad hooked it up and I remember running to the stairs to yell up to my sister "The Nintendo is woooorkiiiiing!!!". Ah, the excitement of childhood.
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Posted: 3/20/2019 12:49:16 AM EDT
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1964. They came out with rectangular screens. Sears had a display of them. Not one picture was viewable. Bands of colors, looked horrible.
Bought one and my 7th grade home room teacher's husband came in to degauze it. Started working at the far side of the room, demagnetized the shadow mask and now you could see a real color picture...on the few color programs available. Fortunately, NBC was our favorite network and many of it's shows were in color to support parent company RCA, maker of color TVs. |
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Posted: 3/20/2019 12:50:45 AM EDT
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No, I'm not a living relic.
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Posted: 3/20/2019 12:57:08 AM EDT
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Late 60s. Very similar to the Magnavox in this ad. Color TV in the center, turntable on the left and radio on the right.
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Posted: 3/20/2019 1:04:04 AM EDT
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Yup even the first show
 
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Posted: 3/20/2019 1:06:41 AM EDT
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yup...went from a B&W zenith to a color Sylvania
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Posted: 3/20/2019 1:07:12 AM EDT
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My father also built ours from a Heathkit using his GI Bill money. He built it intot he wall of the basement that we had just finished out. It too had the push up or down channel changing buttons. It must have been the early 70s since I remember watching the first moon landing on a black and white tv. I found out years later that they didn't even broadcast the best feed they had and have since lost the original tapes. |
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Posted: 3/20/2019 1:21:14 AM EDT
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Yep. Early to mid 70's (if I remember correctly). Sony Trinitron.
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Posted: 3/20/2019 1:21:47 AM EDT
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Yes. Around 1971 or so. Yes, our telephones were on the party line system as well. NOBODY has nostalgia for that.
Our neighbors had a color set in the mid 1960s. I remember being jealous, and also that everything looked green on their TV, even people's faces....... |
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Posted: 3/20/2019 1:35:00 AM EDT
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Early seventies, RCA. Maybe 25"? Used it until 1991 or so. Some wood around the frame, but mostly black.
I saw the receipt for it a few years ago. It was expensive for the time. We still have it sitting in a garage.  I don't know why. We should have gotten rid of if when you could before they started charging to take them to the dump.
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Posted: 3/20/2019 1:35:11 AM EDT
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We got a big console in 1960 to go with our new house and mainly to watch Bonanza. I think it was Zenith.
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Posted: 3/20/2019 4:39:59 AM EDT
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My parents were married in 1962. They bought a color tv within that first year when they bought a house.I always remember having a color tv.
My grandparents got a color tv in 1966 or 67. I was 4 years old. My grandmother who was an electronic assembler for Huges Aircraft built a 27 inch console tv kit from Heathkit. I just remember there were parts all over the living room. They kept that tv til around 1985. Every so often we would have to take all the tubes out and take them to the store and test them to find out which was bad and replace it. Good times. |
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Posted: 3/20/2019 4:46:33 AM EDT
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I remember when the next door neighbors got a color tv.
We had to go over there to see Star Trek in color, especially when they beamed somewhere. We didn't get a color tv until years later. I had moved out before my parents finally got one. |
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Posted: 3/20/2019 4:47:34 AM EDT
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I sure do, my dad bought it and we just loved it.
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Posted: 3/20/2019 4:57:10 AM EDT
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1964, honker Packard Bell.
Made enough heat to cook with, local TV didn't broadcast color (who remembers "in living color" in the credits?). Cost $500, |
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Posted: 3/20/2019 4:57:52 AM EDT
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Early 70's. Watched Jason and the Argonauts that night.
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Posted: 3/20/2019 6:02:18 AM EDT
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I had B&W TV up until the mid 90s.
Grew up with color of course, but we still had some B&W units. Watched Johnny Quest, Space Ghost, The Herculoids, Loony Tunes, Inspector Gadget, Rescue Rangers, etc on it in the morning on weekdays since it was in the kitchen and I ate my cereal. |
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Posted: 3/20/2019 7:19:13 AM EDT
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Yep - RCA Victor CT-100.
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Posted: 3/20/2019 7:19:50 AM EDT
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First TV was B&W circa 1957 or 58. Remember all those great westerns. My parents said I would get in front of it any time a fight broke out and act like I was fighting.
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Posted: 3/20/2019 7:47:02 AM EDT
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In 1979, my family 'moved on up'.
We bought a color TV and a microwave. The tv was an RCA and the microwave was a very large Kenmore. I don't know where they got the money for those extravagant purchases, because that was unheard of for them. |
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Posted: 3/20/2019 7:58:42 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
Early 80’s giant wood cabinet thing that was 4 feet wide for a 19” screen or so... We had a B&W TV until at least the late 80s as well. |
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Posted: 3/20/2019 8:05:39 AM EDT
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I don't remember not having color TV. As early as I can remember which would be around 1966-67, the TV in the living room was color, but the TV in my parents room was B&W. To this day, I cannot picture Ghoulardi in color.
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Posted: 3/20/2019 8:11:02 AM EDT
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I don't remember it. Probably was something I bought at a pawn shop when I was a teenager nearly 40 years ago.
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