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Originally Posted by Adam
14B38Z chassis - I believe the 'B" indicates 1971.
It's one of the last, if not the last B&W TV to come with a remote. This is a rare set, I've been looking for one of these for (seriously) about 20 years. After finding a Flashmatic last year, and now this one, the only TV left on my list of ones I really want but haven't found yet is a 19" Zenith color table set with the 4-tube hybrid chassis - It's odd that that proved to be the hardest to find....
I haven't even had time yet to even see if it works. This is (finally) my week off, but between working on my house and trying to get my Lincoln running - which is driving me crazy with a problem I can't track down - I still don't have much time.
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I had a 19" Zenith b&w portable TV like yours, even down to the remote (the control panel, however, on mine was slightly different, so yours may have been ever so slightly newer than mine, and the remote hand unit was missing when I found it) in the 1980s or so. It was a trash find in my old neighborhood (an eastern Cleveland suburb), and it worked very well about a year before the picture faded out, probably due to an AGC problem, while I was watching it one night. I replaced it the next day with a Zenith J121Y b&w all-channel solid-state portable, which lasted 20 years until I moved to an apartment (long story and OT) in 1999.
BTW, I wish I would have kept that small Zenith portable, as it still worked very well even two decades after I bought it, despite the fact it would only receive one VHF station on its monopole VHF antenna and nothing on UHF (my area, where I live today, is 30 miles east of Cleveland and about 15 miles further southwest from the TV towers in a western Cleveland suburb; the area in which I lived before that was an eastern Cleveland suburb, some thirty miles from the TV towers, which received all seven Cleveland TV stations very well) and, when I got cable, I had it connected to my then-new RCA 19" NTSC portable (this was two decades plus before DTV made CRT televisions obsolete).
I would hold on to the Zenith TV you have if at all possible, as the Zenith Radio Corporation no longer exists; it was taken over by LG, I believe in the late 1980s or nineties. That is too darn bad, IMHO, since Zenith was, hands-down, probably the best TV, radio and home-entertaiment equipment manufacturer in this country since it was founded in 1918. It was my favorite brand of TV and radio as well; I still have a Zenith SMS1917SG 19" color table model TV and several 1960s-1980s Zenith radios. One of those radios is a Zenith H-480-W AM/FM/stereo FM clock radio which still works well on AM, but the FM is extremely weak (I can barely hear it, even with the volume control at maximum).
I have no experience whatsoever with Zenith's home computers, never having owned or used one (the company had a line of such computers some time in the '80s, IIRC); however, I understand they were good quality, perhaps on par with Apple, et al.
When Zenith left Chicago for Korea in, IIRC, the late 1980s or early '90s (I'm not certain of when they made that move), it was truly the end of an era. I had a Zenith 4-mode stereo system which had been manufactured in Korea; I owned it some 17 years and it worked very well. I would have kept that system, but I moved to a very small apartment (where I live today) in 1999, and had no room for it. I replaced it with an Aiwa bookshelf stereo system when I moved here, and gave the Zenith stereo away.