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I still have ( in working condition, although cosmetically it's really beat up ) the 1986 14 inch Sharp TV I have since new ( I was 9 at the time ). It's a color set, in fact, my mother bought two of those on the same day, one was to be used with the VCR ( Panasonic - I saved it from being dumped ) she had bought just a few days before ( our first VCR - cost a hell of a fortune back then ), and the other was to be my bedroom set. My Sharp is still with me, but it's twin is on a TV repair shop, awaiting parts that probably will never appear ( it's among some tens or hundreds of TVs, VCRs, DVDs, microwave stoves and other appliances; besides, Sharp of Brazil closed it's doors some years ago ).
Those two Sharps were bought to take the place of a 1978 20 inch color Philco Ford. That Philco Ford was given to a relative, and later got dumped.
The first TV of my childhood, the one that actually was my first bedroom TV, and that I would like to find today, is a 1974 some 20 inch black and white Philco Ford. It's a huge wooden table model set, not particularly attractive in my opinion ( I am a big fan of early-mid fifties TV sets ) but for nostalgic, among other reasons, I would like to find one. This particular set ended dumped after it spent some years on a warehouse on the back of my grandmother's house. It was still in mint cosmetic condition when it was dumped.
It's kind of ironic that today I have many sets, that are way much older and rarer than this one, but haven't stumbled across this TV, that was a very common to find TV until some 25 years ago.
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