Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ralph Mowery Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: electrical deaths Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2024 12:06:10 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <1r3qb00.1fgzoxb1tmjhzN%liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> <8jdmkj9jr9eq2f1tfqhsrmf72s2phuupsq@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2024 18:06:11 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="affcbb2d52f669ed40b5b98c4d8adaf4"; logging-data="1882736"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+kaqbiG/gkuSKLD2khs4/s7ouD6Sbra6o=" User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/3.0.4 Cancel-Lock: sha1:G7kJ/4yLnG7i6TR4xje85WxRYJo= Bytes: 2224 In article <8jdmkj9jr9eq2f1tfqhsrmf72s2phuupsq@4ax.com>, JL@gct.com says... > > We had great shows, better than most of the junk nowadays. PBS was > "educational TV" with lots of science and documentaries. It's mostly > murder mysteries now. > > > We probably had great shows because where I lived we only had 5 channels. One was an educational one and another was very weak and some times not even watchable. Now with a couple of hundred channels they have to fill all that air time with something and we get quantify instead of quality.+ There were two shows that i really liked that do not seem to have an equal now. One growing up was Mr Wizard and the other was when computers were coming to the homes was The Computer Chronicles. It told how computers worked and history of hem.