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RCA made a ton of those little sets. The white one that I had was an '84 and this one is an '81. I've had them from as far back as '78 and I wouldn't be surprised if they were made before '78 and after '84. I did have a 12" RCA Thomson era set from around '88 that, IIRC, used the same basic chassis. The cabinet was more modern looking. I've seen a few of these with toasted CRT's. Other than that, they were usually trouble free except for the occasional bad filter cap or shorted rectifier diode. Really, most makes of solid state 9"/12" B&W sets were very reliable. The ones I remember giving the most trouble were the mid '80's Goldstar/Emerson/Samsung sets. Almost all of those lost their CRT's after just a few years.
Maybe I should start a collection of these since these were the first types of TV's that I actually repaired and made money off of as a kid back in the early '90's. Another one that I remember well was the 12" solid state GE's that used the "XB" chassis. I think that one was around from the early '70's until close to the end of "real" GE TV's in the mid '80's.
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