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I stayed in a hospital for a week in 1968 when I was 8 years old, and my mother rented a TV for me in my room. (That was how it was done there, the rooms did not have TVs "standard" in them.) It was some kind of maybe 23" B&W on a cart (or a floor model on casters maybe), with a wired remote control. I remember the "off" position was where UHF would commonly be, below channel 2, and I think maybe a couple of UHF stations were converted to unused VHF channels as was common on cable TV later. The channel-changing motor was really fast and only went one way, so if I missed a channel I had to go around again, including turning the TV off and back on. That was the first time in my life I had control of a TV set myself.
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Chris
Quote from another forum: "(Antique TV collecting) always seemed to me to be a fringe hobby that only weirdos did."
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