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Some of my first TV's were a GE 12" B/W portable which was solid state except for the rectifier tube and a 1970's RCA 12" B/w tube type portable. I got these probably when I was around 10 years old in the mid-late 80's. The RCA pretty much got taken apart to pieces as it started to smoke when I tried to adjust something by using a hairpin. I still do have its cabinet somewhere though.
In 7th or 8th grade a friend of mine gave me a Zenith 4-tube hybrid 19" color set. I never could figure out how to get the color to work and ended up regrettably tossing the set.
I got an RCA CTC-31 probably around the time I was a freshman in high school. It was the 22" metal cabinet model. I persuaded my parents to give me $15 to buy it at the flea market and I carried it back to the car myself at the flea market. I can't believe I carried that thing for that distance. It later had a flyback fire but luckily it did not spread to anything else. I still have the cabinet of it, too.
I wish I could go back in time to the 80's to find old radios and TV's. My allowance I think was around 50 cents a week in middle school but I still managed to buy a lot of radios, 78 RPM records and some TV's. There were tons of radios at the $5.00 level I wish I could have bought but at the time for me that was a pretty big sum of money.
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