brand new but very old aerials for sale

[Huge]

1 bob = 5 p.

[John Williamson]

Purchasing power of 5P now is less than the 1d at decimalisation.

[Roderick Stewart]

Until they added colour of course. For some years during the introduction of colour, my TV was a Rank Cintel monochrome studio monitor connected to a home-built tuner, and the detail was noticeably better when there was no colour. Some black and white movies looked superb on this setup, and never as good again on any colour display I've used since.

Rod.

[The Other Mike]

Have you got a verifiable source for that info?

[Andy Burns]

Not quite ....

claims that 1/240th of £1 in 1971 is now worth 4p

[Halmyre]

Or you could use three B&W aerials, appropriately painted, for the R, G and B information. But you need the special paint, of which I am the sole supplier.

-- Halmyre

[The Other Mike]

Didn't they used to colour code aerials (with stickers on the terminal box) for their respective groups?

[Owain]

Is it available pre-dried? My time is valuable and if you offered pre- dried paint that would be really useful.

Owain

[Bill Wright]

They aren't suitable for for the ignorati.

Bill

[Bill Wright]

On D Day I was earning £13 a week as a schoolteacher.

Bill

[Jonathan]

rote:

My first job in 1976 winding transformer coils I earned =A312 a week.

Jonathan

[Steve Firth]

Bhai but tha' were lucky. Twelve pound were enough for ten pair of good brown boots, 'alf a sheep an all t'parsnips tha' could eat!

[Halmyre]

Yes, it comes in pre-dried sheets which you can glue on with my proprietary quick-drying* glue. Bit more expensive of course, but that's nothing to a mug^H^H^H man such as yourself.

(* - requires special heat lamp, batteries not included)

Get-a your tootsie-frootsie ice cream...

-- Halmyre

[Tim Lamb]

I was getting about £21 as an engineer.

[Bill Wright]

Three years earlier I was earning twice what my teaching pay was to be, as a stop-go man on the A18. It was six and threpence ha'penney an hour, time an' 'arf after ten hours, and we worked 6.30 to 7.30 every day except Sunday.

Bill

[Bill Wright]

Just about. The loft is clean but awkward. Idea! I'll get Paul to do it, tell him he can have a cut (the size of which I will not disclose to him).

Bill

[The Other Mike]

Thanks. Not sure how they measured RPI before Mars Bars appeared :)

[geoff]

Thjats a pretty massive dwelling ...

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

You could have got through on the banana.

[<me9]

The TC18s will be colour. The TC stood for truecolour.

I installed one (used but VGC) outside last year, it was bought for my father (and loft mounted) in 1971ish. It gets all the required digital muxes in color and even has an inverse(pat.) balun.