Spaceman Spock is my favorite character on the Twilight Zone-type show. But that’s because I’m a youngster.
Thank you! The description gives up all the spoilers, ruining the plot arc of an episode that no one had ever seen. Not cool, TVG. Do better.
That TV was made in Bloomington, Indiana where I grew up. My wife’s aunt worked in the factory for decades until it closed.
The building doesn’t even exist anymore.
Trek really needed that advanced circuitry that won’t go haywire.
Well, shit, now I want to know if there was an accepted definition, either in industry or among enthusiasts, for what circuits going “haywire” meant.
So that’s a fun term. Originally it referred to the bundles of hay wire uncoiling themselves in a rapid manner. They’re coiled and kept under compression and when you snip it lose it goes SHUBADUBLEWUBLEDUBLEABLE.
technical term
In use for marketing purposes it’s intentionally vague. It’s basically claiming that the electronics inside won’t catastrophically fail unexpectedly.
Have you even owned a old analog TV?
It’s been decades, but yes, some that even responded to “percussive maintenance.” I just don’t know if that amounts to “haywire,” lol.
I actually forgot I used to bang on my old TV to clear the picture. I wonder how simple it would have been to actually fix it.
Haywire is when the TV needs to be tuned. I’m talking about adjusting those knobs.
And now I see that brand on mostly junk.
If I’m remembering right, RCA doesn’t actually exist anymore, it’s just one of those names that gets passed around and slapped on random junk like how polaroid is now
You are correct. I thought they got absorbed into what eventually became Lockheed Martin, but instead of just posting that I did the nerd thing and looked it up. Turns out it was acquired by GE, who then broke up and sold off various bits and bobs. And now these days GE-branded appliances are made by Haier.
Hail corporate.
Great find.
I miss RCA
I had one of these televisions a little while back. It was indeed a solid piece of work, played my old PS2 on it. I had to get rid of it due to lack of space, and literally no one wanted it. Ended up taking it to the recyclers and it was really sad.
My parents had a beefy console/floor model that they bought in 81 or 82. Push-pull power/volume knob, big honkin dial for changing the channel (which showed through a window at the top), decent-sized door that popped open to reveal the fine tuning knobs etc., the whole 9 yards. The tube was small by today’s standards but the enclosure was no joke lol. That thing was furniture. Lasted into the mid-2000s before it gave up the ghost, and didn’t make financial sense to fix it. The replacement was a total garbage CRT that barely lasted 10 years and needed to be repaired multiple times. But hey, it had that proprietary Xbox AV port for some bizarre reason.
Like automatic fine tuning, like colours and stuff, vibing, totally rizz, like, you know
<Cinema Sins ding> Spock is not red in this image.
