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[–] [email protected] 121 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (23 children)

My (now) wife freaked out coming to my apartment the first time. Turns out, she's a huge Rush fan:

In my living room at the time:

All I hear is "Eeeeeeeeeeeeee!"

70% sure she just married me for the TV.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

The other 30% was the Dreamcast.

Edit: Where can I get a TV exactly like that? I assume you had to hunt for years and/or restore?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I was looking for an original to restore but there are problems doing that:

  1. They are FULL of paper capacitors. All of which have to be replaced.

  2. Once you do that, the set is still black and white and has no modern inputs, coaxial and dipole only.

So in my research, I found a tiny company in Dousman, WI who bought the Philco Predicta license. Not sure if they are still making them, keep in mind this was all 25 years ago. Was $2,500 + freight shipping.

http://predictatv.com/

[–] BrowseMan 2 points 1 month ago

Another lemmy gold.

Thanks for allowing me to learn cathodic TV this old was still manufactured in the US in 2018.

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