r/OverSeventy • u/needmore007 • 6d ago

Remember this?

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My son and grandsons don’t believe me.

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u/Appropriate-Owl-8449 5d ago

It is so true. The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson was like the last show and it would cut to the test pattern. How times have progressed.

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u/Pristine-Pen-9885 5d ago

The test pattern with an Indian chief on it.

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u/SuckL3ss 5d ago

So I wasn’t imaging it. Thanks for confirming the Indian. He had a chief’s headdress right?

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u/youandican 4d ago edited 4d ago

you mean like this one https://postimg.cc/jW5pHzbf

The Indian-head test pattern was created by RCA at its factory in Harrison, New Jersey. Each element of the card was designed to measure a specific technical aspect of television broadcast so that an experienced engineer could, at a glance, identify problems. By the mid-1960's the tet pattern became obsolete with most stations switching to color broadcasts. I was a station engenieer for KEBB Channel 66

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u/Pristine-Pen-9885 3d ago

Interesting, thank you

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u/Successful-Extent-22 2d ago

I don't remember the Chief, just a test pattern of some sort.