Colorfully unqiue? Or Ugly GE?
 

Hey!

This is unusual for me to post here cause my TV's are usually older! I bought a beauty off Ebay(Some would say different!) A 12 inch General Electric SF2100 AME Bicentennial. Chassis 12 SE

What the heck was it made for and in what year? I'd like to know more about it. Its coloring seems highly unusual, like a kids TV or something. I havne't seen one of these before. Are they "rare" for a 60'a set?

Does anybody have the SAMS for this set on PDF? If not what is the SAMs #?

Any comments welcome!
Best regards,
Matt Davala

That was a very popular TV, offered in several versions over several years. Your color combination was made as a promotion for the 1976 bicentennial year.

Not surprising that GE would make a tube B&W TV as late as '76. They made tube portacolors up until at least '78 and maybe as late as '80. I wonder if GE made a tube type B&W set after '76.

I once had a GE B&W with that same chassis. It was in a woodgrain plastic case and used a click-stop UHF tuner. Actually, the case looked almost identical to the solid state XB chassis sets. By it having click stop UHF tuning, it couldn't have been older than the mid '70's.

I had a similar GE set, it was two-tone puke-green and white. But it must have been older than that one because it had the continuous uhf tuner. I think the chassis was mostly compactron tubes mounted on a single board. GE 12SE is in sams 1217-1

Those are pretty good, I have 2 but not the bicentennial model. One is black and grey, the other is black and white (the cabinet lol) with foe wood trim around the knobs. Both are continuous UHF and from '76, black one might be a '75. The latter is my favorite of the two. Yours is in nice shape, hold onto it. People collect bicentennial stuff.

That should have been your first clue to the year. ;)

My SF-chassis GE is a '75. Wonder what the differences between the SE and SF were ?

You'd think so huh? I actuall had to look up the word bicentennial. I'll blame that on my generation. Don't use it too often during the day. . . or ever.

I then thought, celebrating 200 years of what? GE hadn't been around that long. OOOhhhh. Our country!! Makes sence now of the colors of the TV!! I feel like an idiot. . .. .

Pretty cool now that I know!

Anyone with a schematic?
Thanks,
Matt D

Looks like the NFL symbol on the front, though, dunnit?

Don't feel too bad Matt, you were born after the fact.
OTOH people of my generation can't help but know about the Bicentennial, it was a big huge Hoop-Dee-Doo at the time, Bicentennial this and Bicentennial that.

Wow, it's been 33 years already! :sigh:

I still have some Bicentennial Mugs from Jack In The Box!

Not to be OT, but to add to what you said Eric, remember the bicentennial Lawn-Boy mowers? There was just about anything you wanted "bicentennial" back then. I was born in '82 but have studied much of what went on before me.

GE also made a solid state Bicentennial B&W and a pocket radio. Zenith also made a small B&W that looked like the Declaration of Independance with all the signatures.

All you had to do was paint something red, white and blue, throw in some stars and stripes, and it was "Bicentennial". Plastic pink flamingos painted red, white and blue... :D

funny tv ......