Post #220780 by naugatiki on Tue, Mar 14, 2006 4:05 PM

When I was a kid if anything new and improved was on sale my parents grabbed it immediately. We were the first on the block with a microwave oven and a Panasonic VCR that weight about 20 pounds at the time (I still have a recording of the late show of Easy Rider I taped in the late 70s around here on it) and one of those 2 ton combination TV, record player, cassette player units. But even with all this splender our house was located in the neutral zone and one of the only areas in the state with out cable access, so one day a friend of mine invited me over to watch the movie Rocky on his set on HBO and I was taken back watching the film on a black and white set about the size of a 12 inch computer monitor. That movie always reminded me of a 40s film so I hardly noticed. Later during the broke college student period he became one of my roommates and that damn black and white set moved in with him, I think it finally gave out from being pounded on the side of it too many times.