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Originally Posted by zenith2134
and all I found was 'General Electric; Portsmouth, Virginia, USA'
Is it possible that this wasnt built offshore as late as 1975? . Also the crt sticker claims Made in USA..
Can anyone shed some insight?
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Back in 1980 I had a job interview at that GE TV plant, as an electrical engineer specializing in video work. At one point during the interview day, they showed me the production floor, there were a chain of hooks hanging from above with TV chassis slowly traveling to the next event in their production. Smaller chassises. Think I saw CRTs too, possibly for Portacolors. I was working at some areospace defense contractor at the time doing mostly lists of what pin of what connector connected to some other pin of another connector, or chasing mil spec part numbers for resistors. Told one interviewer (I talked to the usual 6 or so) about my areospace contractor company using linear deflection circuits to drive the horizontal deflection of the displays we used in our flight simulators. He said WHAT, LINEAR? The idiots :-) at GE didn't hire me...
heard years later the entire GE plant there died not long after my interview.