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Originally Posted by drh4683
I really didn't want the other two sets. The panasonic is a cheap piece of crap from november of 83. Its sad how TV quality pretty turned to junk around 1980. Look at the inside of this set, its just a board screwed down inside a big partical board box. I guess thats why I like the old 60's-early 70's sets so much, as the space inside the TV cabinet was pretty much all used and built well.
I already junked the panasonic, CRT was shot. Probably would have junked it regardless. The zenith b/w is a cheapy. Plastic cabinet sides, wood top. Works, weak CRT and vertical size issues. I still have this zenith, if anyone wants it, its yours. Otherwise I'll save the chassis and tuner and junk the rest.
The photos were taken at my power equipment storage building.
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Doug, I just saw the pic of the innards of the Panasonic console, and was amazed at the size of the "chassis" in comparison to the size of the console cabinet. What were they thinking, putting such a small PC board in such a huge cabinet? (I've seen this in 1980s-vintage Zenith and other makes of TVs as well.) The only thing I can figure that makes any sense to me is that Panasonic used that particular cabinet for most or all of its 1980s-vintage consoles and were not concerned about lots of wasted space.
I was also amazed to see the front view of the "cheap" (as you put it) Zenith console. I never saw that particular style of Zenith television in a console cabinet until now. This seems out of character for Zenith even by the early '80s, before the LG takeover, although many of their color sets and nearly all their b&w sets were being manufactured in offshore plants even by the mid-'70s (I once had a 12" b&w solid-state Zenith portable, 1978 vintage, that had been made, IIRC, in Mexico).
How times have changed.