The first
time I ever saw a TV was in the late 1940’s in Chicago. It had a round screen about eight inches in
diameter and the picture was so snowy you could barely make out details.
The next
time I saw a TV was in the early 1950.
My uncle and his wife had one of the first TV in our little Mississippi
Delta town. It had a 16-inch screen,
black and white. My uncle had bought a plastic film that
adhered to the TV screen: the film was blue on the top, yellow in the middle
and green on the bottom; which gave a vague allusion to a color picture. They could receive two channels with their
outside antenna, but the picture was grainy and often became unfocused.
I am sure
that young people today would not understand what I am talking about when I say
that both radios and TV’s of that era operated with vacuum tubes.
I could
never have dreamt of living in a time of current technology. What will technology be like when the young
people of today reach my age?
It is mind
blowing
the Ol’Buzzard
