Final Test and Alignment of black-and-white TV set chassis. I’m guessing early 1950’s…
And don’t forget the rows and rows of women they had to assemble these things…..
All I could think of when I saw that picture was Walter Matthau in Grumpy Old Men.
I was a TV repair man.
I miss simpler times. First 15 years of my career in international sales and marketing, I would vanish from visibility for a month at a time. If the company really needed to reach me, they would telex or (gasp) fax to the next hotel on my schedule or if really really important, to the companies I was scheduled to visit. No phone calls, too expensive. On return would collate my notes from each stop, clean them up, hand them to the secretary and she would type them up for the boss. Low stress, easy and quiet travel. That vanished with the portable computer then the cell phone. People today have no clue of what things were like before. And yes, I worked for a company that made TV kits, have done the assembly and alignment of color sets in consoles weighing 100 to 150 lbs.Good times.
Before my time. But I do remember Grampa and Pop almost coming to fisticuffs on the subject of Zenith vs Hitachi…
Sounds like a few of us on here fondly remember trying to align color TV’s. It would generally take me about 3 hours to do a full alignment, complete with initially moving the magnets around for the purity alignment, followed up by the color saturation tweaks, and then came the back-and-forth to get all three guns to land on the same spot over the entire screen.
I do not miss those days! I have better things to do with my time.
I was always intrigued by the oscilloscope on the shelf in storage at my last job.
Final Test and Alignment of black-and-white TV set chassis. I’m guessing early 1950’s…
And don’t forget the rows and rows of women they had to assemble these things…..
All I could think of when I saw that picture was Walter Matthau in Grumpy Old Men.
I was a TV repair man.
I miss simpler times. First 15 years of my career in international sales and marketing, I would vanish from visibility for a month at a time. If the company really needed to reach me, they would telex or (gasp) fax to the next hotel on my schedule or if really really important, to the companies I was scheduled to visit. No phone calls, too expensive. On return would collate my notes from each stop, clean them up, hand them to the secretary and she would type them up for the boss. Low stress, easy and quiet travel. That vanished with the portable computer then the cell phone. People today have no clue of what things were like before. And yes, I worked for a company that made TV kits, have done the assembly and alignment of color sets in consoles weighing 100 to 150 lbs.Good times.
Before my time. But I do remember Grampa and Pop almost coming to fisticuffs on the subject of Zenith vs Hitachi…
Sounds like a few of us on here fondly remember trying to align color TV’s. It would generally take me about 3 hours to do a full alignment, complete with initially moving the magnets around for the purity alignment, followed up by the color saturation tweaks, and then came the back-and-forth to get all three guns to land on the same spot over the entire screen.
I do not miss those days! I have better things to do with my time.
I was always intrigued by the oscilloscope on the shelf in storage at my last job.