Perhaps I should have said "I have the
normal version of that set..." Mine isn't the teaching version. But I haven't seen any "normal" Chromacolor sets at thrift stores lately, so my post was really just intended to say that $50 isn't that high for an unusual set like that.
Question for Pete Deksnis: What kind of faults might the switches set, and were there precautions for running the set with these problems? Such as no vertical sweep burning the CRT, or runaway HV producting radiation?
I should also mention that my parents bought nearly the same set in 1975 as their first color TV. We had it for 9 years, and it was replaced by a 19" remote Sylvania Superset. The major (and only) complaint with the Zenith was that the colors would sometimes "shift"... Now I'm pretty sure that it was probably just dirty modules (a good whack always brought it back) but back then I cared little for Solid-State sets. When the colors weren't "shifting", the pic was still as good as anything new.
It eventually went to my Uncle's hunting cabin. Then some of his idiot friends bought a Wal-Mart remote box and the Zenith came to an untimely end with a shotgun.
The first show it was ever used for was "A Charlie Brown Christmas 1975"
After years of watching Saturday morning cartoons, Rockford Files & Dukes of Hazzard, with a loving family, I can only imagine how sad and alone it must have felt in the cold woods, with a gun pointed at it.
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