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Old 09-30-2006, 12:17 AM
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That is a 1972 model-year set and has little in common with the traditional Motorola "Works In A Drawer" except that much of the circuitry is the same. If you see part numbers like "68987A01" for example that was made using Motorola parts in a Motorola assy factory. If you see part numbers like VEPS07104A thats Matsushita (panasonic/quasar) of the early 70's. A dead give-away would be if the set used a power transformer and not a series string, I believe all motorola built sets used a power transformer that was actually a ferroresonant for regulation.
I believe Motorola got out of the TV business around 76 or so and focused on communications gear and the Quasar brand was aquired by the Panasonic group as an inexpensive appliance line with the Panasonic angle spinning off Technics to produce high-end audio. As a long time Motorola technician I can tell you that the service manuals for ALL motorola consumer video and audio was discontinued (J-code) in 1977 and 1982 for "consumer communications" meaning the Systems-500 CB radios, this was about the time of the Schaumberg revolution of the Gavin family.
I currently have a real working Works In Your Drawers Motorola set that was produced at the Franklyn Park facility and it works perfectly, this thing has the clearest colors I have seen from one of these sets. I call it the Micor TV simply because many of its parts including the interconnect pins are also used in the old Micor series of commercial radios and are still available today as new production.

Anyway enough of my batwings history

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