I already "let it go" at this:
"The game show Concentration, which debuted in 1958, was not among the "things" Sprout speaks of above. Did the limitations of the relatively primitive technology that existed at the time force the show's producers to go manual? Obviously not. Was the cost of mechanizing the production prohibitive, thereby rendering a "Vanna White" hiring necessary? Obviously not. Did the show's mechanization require the skills of highly trained technicians and engineers? Well, whatever the level of training required, obviously mechanization did not impose too formidable a challenge. After all, it happened.
Wheel's letter-flipping required no more technological sophistication than Concentration's number-flipping, meaning if such a "hands-free/Vanna-less" show could be produced by 1958 then production of a "hands-free" mid-'70s Wheel of Fortune would pose no technological challenge whatsoever. The technology that rendered the "letter turner" position obsolete long before it was even established arrived on the scene who knows how many decades earlier.
That was precisely the point of my first post to this thread which read as follows:
'There was no need for [a] Vanna White or anyone else to 'physically' turn the letters in 1975. No more than there was a need to 'physically' turn the numbers in 1958.'"
So, sorry, not going to do a Sealion segue into heating and air-conditioning. Nope, nah guh hapn.
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