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Apropos of conversation elsewhere, any other Gen X Brits remember CUB monitors?

“Let’s put an electron gun and high frequency electromagnets inside a steel box and then give it to 8 year olds because we hate kids and think electrocuting them is funny!”

It was a different time.

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@MarkusL @geekylou :transgender_flag: Granny’s garden was fertilised with the remains of incinerated school kids.
in reply to Sarah Brown

yes, or school had them, with BBC model Bs. Seeing an RGB monitor after the fuzzy mishmash produced on a colour TV by an RF modulator was a revelation!