Televisions today are all solid...
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Televisions today are all solid state. They don't have any tubes, except the picture tube. There are already ads out for the new flat-screen televisions and someday there won't even be picture tubes. Even ten years ago, a television store would sometimes take an old vacuum tube set as a trade-in. Their ads always said, "With working, solid state trade-in," but the businessman always tried to be agreeable, and when a customer insisted, he took the tube set in trade and let the customer think he had swindled the salesman. The new guy at the store asked the boss what to do with the trade-in. He said, "Might as well get our money's worth out of it. Take it out back to the dumpster. Throw it just as high as you can. And listen to the crash when it comes down." And that's what he did. The problem with some people is they want to be a collection of tubes, when they could be solid state. Listen to the crash.
-- Mosley
-- Mosley
