#television
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Toshiba Blackstripe Televisions, 1974
This does not even begin to cover the weirdness of cathode ray televisions.
They are literally particle accelerators that you point at your face.
And for eighty years, Americans' favorite thing to do was turn them on and stare at them for hours.
If you overcharge them, they emit gamma radiation.
Servicing them is like disarming a bomb -- their capacitors are enormous and are usually charged to hundreds or thousands of volts, and most of them have no bleed system that drains that charge, meaning that they can still be dangerous months or years after the last time they were powered up. A discharge can not only electrocute you, it can cause tools to melt or explode.
A black-and-white cathode ray TV driven by an unmodulated analog signal is theoretically capable of resolution that would require a microscope to perceive.
God I wish this was @/facts-i-just-made-up
70′s/80′s/90′s Local Television Star Trek TOS Station IDs/Bumpers Part 2
Part 1 (x)
1. WKBS-TV, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 70′s
2. WTCG-TV, Atlanta, Georgia, 1973
3. WCIA-TV, Champaign, Illinois, 1982
4. WTTG-TV, Washington, DC, 1971
5. KTLA-TV, Los Angeles, California, 1981
6. WKBS-TV, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1979
7. KWGN-TV, Denver, Colorado, 1990
8. WCAY-TV, Nashville, Tennessee, 1984
9. KNDO-TV, Yakima, Washington, 1991
10. KTXL-TV, Sacramento, California, 1980

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