I bought a black-and-white television in 1985, the last year they could be bought new. I thought it might be rare and a novelty soon. And while old black-and-white programs looked better than on color sets, it overall wasn’t much fun to watch. So I traded it in for a color set.

The last time I really used that set was maybe in the year 2001, with a VCR. Since that time, television has gone digital.

Is there any reason to save the old pre-flatscreen, pre-digital televisions? I have several from the 1980s, some, with converter boxes, ran well into 2008 or 2009.