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Default Is our view of old engineering distorted by the products which survive?


"Winston" wrote in message
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Vaughn Simon wrote:

"Christopher Tidy" wrote in message
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My guess is that in the absence of spare parts, a modern TV will be
impossible to repair


(...)

But decades ago you could buy third-party service information for most
any consumer television or radio on the market. That information (Mostly
Sam's Photofacts) was in a standardized format and far superior to anything
that the manufacturers provided. I doubt if anything like that exists today.


That is so true!

You'd have to go all the way back to July 2008.

I stand corrected! Thanks

Vaughn