My dad went into television after working on B-17 radar during the war, and went on to be one of the pioneers of color television. As I remember, he started with Admiral and then many years with Zenith. Throughout my youth we always had 3-4 TVs in the house (he was "testing" them). Also had the Space Command remotes, which we called "the clicker." I also worked for Zenith for about 2 years.

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When I was in high school I had an after-school job with a TV sales and repair guy who had served in the Korean war as a radar tech. We sold Zenith TVs, and I well remember the Space Command remotes.

It had several function buttons: channel up, channel down, volume up, volume down. The function buttons compressed a spring which released at end of travel, striking an aluminum bar. The bars were of different lengths, and resonated at particular frequencies. An acoustic detector in the TV recognized the frequencies, causing an electric motor to perform the specific operation.

Much easier than actually getting up from the couch to change channels or volume!

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... remotes.

That's what us kids were for.

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
... remotes.

That's what us kids were for.

And getting beer!
I remember coming home from school and there was a brand new color tv in the house. I was astonished I couldn't believe my eyes.

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
... remotes.

That's what us kids were for.

We were also antenna alignment technicians.

Thank you Para! That was a fun watch with my morning coffee. I'm too young to remember our first color set. But I remember our first remote control set!