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Andy, I have been trying to find the RCA field service guides at home with no luck. If someone else doesn't answer I should be able to find the sams for it at the shop tomorrow. I think it is a table model based on the "E" in the model number, although there are usually 3 numerals in the model designation between the letters.

Sams has two CTC59 folders, one in 1275-4, the other in 1376-2, they're both entirely solid state. My index says 1376-2 is equivalent to er475W, so that's probably what it is.

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So I guess it's just an XL-100. I can still remember fixing them to sell and not bing a big fan of that chassis. I guess I'll pass on it.


Yep, it's an XL-100. It does appear to be RCA's first portable with the XL-100 name though (but not the first RCA solid-state modular color portable, which was the CTC-49). My copy of the 1973 RCA guide shows the CTC-59 as a "continued" chassis rather than new for that model year, but the 1972 guide doesn't list that chassis, so perhaps it was introduced mid-year.

These days, anything that's not a flat panel is a "tube" TV

I know exactly what you mean. Yesterday I stopped at a thrift store and saw a modern 19" Toshiba priced at 30 dollars. I explained to them that few would be interested in such an 'deal', and the man replied that it was a tube set.

That XL100 sounds like a nice set regardless, I would pick it up just to save it from destruction. Probably reliable too, once running. I had a late 70s XL that lasted for about 20 years til the tube died suddenly- It was never repaired in those 20 years. Well, anyway happy tv hunting and good luck gentleman.

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Did RCA ever make a non-modular solid state portable?

I don't think so. Well, not until the 1980's or whenever when TV manufactureres just put everything on one or two big PC boards.