My wife and I are of a single mind on it; beauty and functionality. We were both born at the tail end of the vacuum tube era; as a kid, I was weaned from that to the old first-generation transistor technology. My father was a radio broadcaster for 50 years. The sights and smells of the old transmitter tubes and equipment (albeit HUGE tubes!) in an AM radio station still lingers in my childhood memories.
I was born in 1932.
I guess that explains a lot——there isn’t an electronic devise in my home that can compare aethetically to your new/old Philco.
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