Re: Who remembers how bad analogue television was?

On 28/02/2025 17:39, Martin Brown wrote:

Valve sets ran hot and somehow valves would gradually work themselves
out of sockets or just plain and simple fail at switch on. I saw one or
two very old all valve sets survive into the 80's that kept the valve
filaments warm continuously even when the set was nominally off.

That's how Colossus was run reliably at Bletchley Park. The valve filaments were always on.
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Jeff