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I don't remember what our first TV looked like, but I remember the remote. It was a Zenith Space Commander Six Hundred. It had 4 buttons and they made an audible click when you pressed them. (Which is why a TV remote is still sometimes called a "clicker"). The Volume button would turn on the TV at minimum volume, and each press would turn the volume up, you couldn't go down. Once it hit maximum volume, one more press would turn the TV off. There were buttons for Channel Up and Channel Down, but these could only tune channels 2 through 13 and ONE pre-selected UHF channel. To select a different UHF channel, you had to turn a dial on the TV. There was a Mute button that would cut the sound, and while it was muted the Channel buttons could adjust the hue of the image.


From about the 1980s until 2000-ish we had a Zenith System 3 with a built-in "space phone" and an infrared remote. I think it was a 25" screen, with a huge cabinet that made it an entire piece of furniture.


Then we got a 36" Sony WEGA. It weighed over 200 pounds and required 3 people to deliver it. It was so front heavy it literally had a strap in the back to tie it down to the stand. I didn't even try to take it with me when I moved.


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