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My best road side find was an AWA 17" set from 1956, the year TV started here in Australia. It was missing the back and the cabinet was rough, but other than that it was basically intact. I had hoped to restore it.
Unfortunately I no longer have it. I held onto it as long as I could, but in the end I had no choice but to dump it after scavenging some parts from it. I had tried to give it away on several occasions, but there were no takers. The weren't any locals I knew of then interested in vintage TVs and noone responded to the ads.
I wish I still had the set, along with some other interesting sets I stripped as a child looking for components for other projects. I guess most of us could tell similar stories.
If there are any other vintage computer guys here they can laugh or cry at me. In my pre internet days sold my IBM 5110 for $40.
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