Our first new Color TV

Our world is full of electronic devices nowadays, isn't it?  Most change so much and so often it is hard to keep track of what is current. Just a few years ago, we would be saying we couldn't live without VCR's or Atari's, but now almost no one has them.  Some "newfangled" electronic devices have stood the test of time though, and are still important to our society.  How many folks could get along well without access to a microwave oven these days, for example?  Or a TV?  These were both cutting edge technology at one time.  Not too many years ago though, a new TV was a huge investment for a family, probably several weeks' pay.  Color TV was the cutting edge.  Back in the late 1960's, I remember my Dad going to the local "mom and pop" TV store (Hahn's?), and making the huge purchase of a new Quasar "works in a drawer"  color TV.  Back in those days, most TV's were operated by several "vacuum tubes" located inside the TV itself.  The days of transistors and all solid state circuitry were not quite here yet.  When you wanted to watch TV, you would turn it on, and wait anywhere from several seconds to several minutes for the set to "warm up" and a picture to appear. When Quasar came out with a TV that came on pretty much instantly, and was much more solid state that it's predecessors, we thought we were getting the best thing ever invented!  Dad laid out what seemed to us like a million bucks for that TV , especially on a factory worker's income.  We were proud to watch Gunsmoke or Bonanza in living color on that TV.  We saw a moon landing or two, a President resign in disgrace, and nightly news of the Viet Nam war on that TV.  My love affair with the TV probably began with that floor model Quasar "works in a drawer" TV, and has not waned to this day.  I now have 5 TV's so I can watch anytime I want from pretty much any room in the house.  I have over 200 channels to watch from a satellite dish. But I will always remember that TV, and how proud Dad was to bring it home.  To Me, TV is still the electronic device I can;t live without.  I blame it on my Old Man.