Can you help identify this TV (part 1)
 

I am trying to identify this black and white CRT television. I found the image here, but no other info. Maybe someone can help.

Here's the basic information (pic below): RCA, B&W, somewhere between 15 and 21 inch screen. In conversation it was suggested the model number could be XL-100, but I couldn't verify that anywhere else. It has a unique push button power switch in the upper right corner, three turn knobs under the speaker (contrast, brightness, and volume). Late 70s or early 80s.

http://sleepingelephant.com/pics/rca1.jpg

If anyone has seen one, is selling one, or knows where I can find more information about it, please post. Thanks for reading!

iv been looking for one like that ,i grew up with a tv just like that my dad bought it in the late 70's i think ,i was in high school when he got that tv.

i think he might still have it to ,im also been looking sorta for a magnavox 19in from the middle 70's that looks something like that rca picture, but it was color.

I have a similar story. I've been searching for some time and only found an image on this forum. I also found one in a thrift store in the late 90s (still angry I let it go). I have reason to believe it may have been more common in the midwest. Any new clues would be appreciated.

Those sets were very common during the early-to-mid '90's and I used to make good money off of them (could get $35-$50 for one at the time). I actually recently saw a similar set in a grey plastic cabinet; but, it was very beat up, the CRT tested very weak, and the chassis had problems. So, I left it alone. They still turn up if you look hard enough.

Sure looks like a Sears or JC Penney version of an RCA Mural TV....

Actually, there was an RCA-built JCPenney version of that set.

These are great leads! Thanks! The television set I am looking for (and the one in the picture) carry the RCA brand.

I googled "RCA Mural" and didn't find any images that seem similar to the one above. And the tv in the picture is exactly the style for which I want a model number.

I recall the set also had severe overscan problems. About an inch and a half of the screen is cut off on the right side. Is that sort of thing universal or subject to each individual set? Can it be adjusted?

RCA Mural TV's were commercial grade models that could be found in motels, hospitals, and schools. There was also RCA's line of Lyceum TV's that were commonly found in schools and had a wide variety of input/output jacks on the rear of the set. Most of the TV's that I've seen from the Mural and Lyceum lines were color; but, there were some B&W models made.

From the 1978 RCA service manuals:
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For 1979, it looks like they changed to a different control panel with vertical tuning controls.

YES! That's it! Thank you, thank you! But I can't find any images on the net of any of these model numbers! I don't even know where to begin to find one. Any ideas?

Does anyone know of an online archive of television models? With other hobbies, it is very easy to find such a thing (I can get images of every video game cartridge ever made), but I can't find anything online for television sets. This seems strange considering how much more of a cultural impact the tv set has!

The nearest sites I can suggest are tvhistory.tv and radiomuseum.org but neither may have "newer" sets such as those RCAs.