shalafi@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 days agoWe used to have TV repairmen who would come if dad couldn't fix it with the tube from the grocery store kiosk. Weird.message-squaremessage-square50fedilinkarrow-up1119arrow-down17
arrow-up1112arrow-down1message-squareWe used to have TV repairmen who would come if dad couldn't fix it with the tube from the grocery store kiosk. Weird.shalafi@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 days agomessage-square50fedilink
minus-squareMalReynolds@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 days agoNot least because CRT screens were nigh on bulletproof (and heavy as fuck, containing vacuum reliably needs mass).
minus-squareLedivin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 day agoIn college (early 2000s), we had a 50-something inch CRT. I think that thing weighed upwards of 500 lbs, was positively massive (maybe 3 feet deep?) and it took 4-6 people to move it in and out of our on-campus apartments every year. It was fucking baller for the time, though
minus-squareIWW4@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 day agoHEHE I am sure it weighed more than 500 pounds! I had a 24 inch or so TV around that time and holy hell it was nuts how heavy that thing was.
Not least because CRT screens were nigh on bulletproof (and heavy as fuck, containing vacuum reliably needs mass).
OMFG they were so insanely heavy!
In college (early 2000s), we had a 50-something inch CRT. I think that thing weighed upwards of 500 lbs, was positively massive (maybe 3 feet deep?) and it took 4-6 people to move it in and out of our on-campus apartments every year.
It was fucking baller for the time, though
HEHE I am sure it weighed more than 500 pounds! I had a 24 inch or so TV around that time and holy hell it was nuts how heavy that thing was.