I found this by a dumpster it works well and had the remote on top of it. I was wondering who made this for Penny's?

Maybe Sharp??

Sure looks like it could be Sharp, Sampo, possibly Sanyo....

Open her up, gently, and snap a few pictures.....

Possibly even a Toshiba.....

Maybe Sharp??

I could be easily be an RCA. IIRC, the model should start with 685.
If it's an RCA, it should be a great set. :thmbsp:

Yes! the number does start with 685.

Damn, that last line on that label doesn't look promising. My Goldstar-built sets had lousy pics in low-light scenes.

Damn, that last line on that label doesn't look promising. My Goldstar-built sets had lousy pics in low-light scenes.

This week alone, I was wrong more than once. A strong possibility, that is a Goldstar built set. It might be a keeper.
Maybe the 685 prefix, means that is an electronic product.

Several of the Penney's sets I worked on from the 1970s and 1980s were obviously from Matsushita. All the interior parts had their familiar triangle logo on them.

If this set says made in USA from foreign components, I wonder how little of it was actually assembled here? I'd guess all the electronics (chassis, assembled circuit boards, CRT, etc.) were all made in Matsushita plants in Asia.



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That set looks like it was made at the beginning of the electronic tuning era. I had a 1982 Zenith 13" portable color set that also had the words "electronic tuning" above the channel selector window and an 18-position selector knob (12 VHF and 6 UHF channels, the UHFs being set individually for a particular area), although this JC Penney set looks like it has an electronic arrangement that silently scans through all channels the tuner is set to receive, stopping at every usable signal it finds. I seriously doubt this is a motor-driven tuner, as by the '80s most major TV makers had switched to computerized electronic tuning in their higher-end sets, the type now used universally in all TVs.

The case and the knob layout have a Samsungish look to them.

Reminds me of some Emersons of the era I've seen.

I am going with Samsung or poss. Gold Star.
Not RCA or Panny.

73 Zeno:smoke:

Samsung was the first thing to enter my mind. Had an '82 Samsung color that looked a lot like this

This week alone, I was wrong more than once. A strong possibility, that is a Goldstar built set. It might be a keeper.
Mine weren't, I aired the CRTs and dumped them. I picked up a lot of junk in my first year of collecting. Today is the one year mark for that.

It seems to be working fine I have it hooked up in the bedroom so ill keep it and hope it stays working for awhile.

Well regarding Goldstar, my '83 Emerson 13inch color is a rebadged Goldstar right down to the CRT..a damn fine performer surprisingly, with a very strong tube.