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I have an aunt/uncle with a solid state RCA console about this age or older, can't tell you if its an XL-100 (but maybe all the solid state sets were?) but as of my last visit a year ago it was still trucking along, good as new. There is also a couple that are longtime family friends, they had one that seemed to be early 70's. I havn't been over there for about 3 years, but it was still humming along at that time. (Their case was odd, they were one of the first I knew to get a big satellite dish in the 80's, also had a top of the line stereo VCR before we had even a cheap one! But they kept that old RCA as the daily driver all along!)
In my vast pile of stuff is a set of reel-to-reel recordings someone made, taking the audio off of a tv, mid 70's. They mostly recorded specials & movies (plus what seems like must have been every episode of "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman"!) Anyway, the commericals are great! Several for RCA's Colortrak, see if I can remember how it goes: "...before you see the picture the RCA Colortrak aligns it, defines it..." and "RCA keeps making television better and better"
One more thing, while I'm running on and on...as a young teenage radio collector I came across a pull-out section from an old Reader's Digest, advertising the XL-100. From 1972, I recall. I mailed it to the then president of MAARC, Joe Koester, with a note saying he might want to save it for future collectors. He politely sent it back to me with a kind note. I was always sending him junk like that! Still got that thing somewhere.
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