Comment 3 years old. (Score 1) 162
I was a four-year-old who had taken off the cover of the 26" TV console in the living room to poke around the glowing vacuum tubes.
I'm not very far behind you.
In 1973, I was three years old, my dad was a TV repairman who owned his own TV repair business, and I took apart every gadget I could get a screwdriver to.
However, If I tried to remove the back panel of the living room TV set, I would've got my ass busted in a big way. Twice. First by my mom, then secondly by my dad when he got home at the end of the day from running TV repair service calls.
Yes, back then you could still get TV repair service at home.