With all due respect, how do you know that you're older?
I'm 54 (today, actually!). I've been doing this part time whilst in full-time employment in the flight simulation industry.
Over the years, I've also designed and built an image iconoscope camera (about ten years ago), shown at IBC, rebuilt to working condition two full 12 ton OB trucks with all their gear restored to working condition, and now working on a
1953 405 line one.
I DO understand about the 405 nostalgia and have the gear to prove it!
What seems to be hard to get across is that we in the UK didn't have some 'right' or 'ability' for television - there's plenty of other countries and people out there who were just as good in different ways. We went our way, for good or bad, but there are things beyond the 'techie' which if we are thoughtful, we must address. As I said, it's taken me a long time to learn that - and I'm still learning. Knee jerk doesn't work in the end; you need, in the modern idiom, to think outside the box . . .
Cheers,
Paul M