We bought this 27" TV when we started our graduate programs at Purdue, Indiana, in 1990. We bought it probably for $150 at local Sam's Club. After we were done with our degrees, we went back to Tokyo in 1995 and brought this TV over the Pacific Ocean with us. It worked its job OK in Tokyo for five years, and when we moved to Charlottesville, Virginia, it came back to its birth counrty with us. It worked for another nine years in our family room. We, i.e. our son and me, debated switching it for a new more fashinable TV gazzilion times, but there is no way to persuade my husband to agree... he is someone of attachment who still uses a battered pen case from his highschool days (he is now 44). Well, but 19 years after its birth, the TV has started gradually deteriorating over the past months. Maybe it knew that it's time to go. So he will not come with us to California. We will finally be able to buy a new fancy TV, but somehow I feel like I lost an old friend of mine.
8/02/2009
19 year old TV
We bought this 27" TV when we started our graduate programs at Purdue, Indiana, in 1990. We bought it probably for $150 at local Sam's Club. After we were done with our degrees, we went back to Tokyo in 1995 and brought this TV over the Pacific Ocean with us. It worked its job OK in Tokyo for five years, and when we moved to Charlottesville, Virginia, it came back to its birth counrty with us. It worked for another nine years in our family room. We, i.e. our son and me, debated switching it for a new more fashinable TV gazzilion times, but there is no way to persuade my husband to agree... he is someone of attachment who still uses a battered pen case from his highschool days (he is now 44). Well, but 19 years after its birth, the TV has started gradually deteriorating over the past months. Maybe it knew that it's time to go. So he will not come with us to California. We will finally be able to buy a new fancy TV, but somehow I feel like I lost an old friend of mine.