Curtis Mathes portable

[Charlie]

After returning home from the ship a few days ago, my neighbor across the street gave me a television that had been in her bedroom since new. She told me it was seldom used... usually only when her great-grandson was there and he played video games on it.

The set is a Curtis Mathes 19" model M1959RW; manufactured May 1986 and made in Japan. Still has the remote. It has 0-9 pushbuttons for the tuner, pushbuttons for volume and power, and pots behind a door for the picture controls.

I brought it home, plugged it in, and it works flawlessly! The picture has nice rich color and great contrast!

I will be taking this to camp for a daily watcher.

This is actually my FIRST rectangular color set. I don't really consider it to be a "vintage" set (although some people on ebay would probably list it as an antique), but it is 20 years old and plays damn good considering all I did was plug it in!