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11-30-2005, 11:15 PM
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One of them curvy Zeniths on eBay
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11-30-2005, 11:45 PM
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OMG! I'm within striking distance of this one. One of my favorite cabinet designs too. Mid-late '70s, judging from the style of remote. ChromaII, perhaps?
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12-01-2005, 10:44 AM
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I wonder if this was one of the delta gun sets or the inline.
It would be worth it alone if it had a delta gun tube. Those produced the best pictures IMHO.
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12-01-2005, 07:12 PM
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Quite possible. All but the very last IIs had deltas, if what I read around here is true. There was a transition into System 3 around 1978 when the old chassis were mated to the new Tri-Focus inline tubes, and that also seems to be the time the round logo at the bottom of this set's remote disappeared.
This cabinet style is called The Panorama and was made for sut'm like 10 or 11 years. I've seen examples of it that date into the mid '80s.
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12-01-2005, 07:28 PM
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I think only the 19" (and maybe 17 or 13" too) chromacolor II chassis were equipped with the system 3 tubes when those tubes came out...as far as I know all 23" and 25" Chromacolor II sets use delta gun tubes.
The 23" set I have was made in 1979 and has the Chromacolor II chassis...however it doesn't have the Zenith "crest" or the Chromacolor II name...just says "space command". Maybe they were making the system III concurrently and did not want to distinguish this older technology set from the new ones by calling attention to the fact it is a Chromacolor?
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12-03-2005, 01:42 AM
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The 25KC50 had an inline, but those were kind of rare. As Chad says, most of the Chromacolor II sets with inline tubes were smaller ones. Infact, I think all of the 13" sets were inline (?).
As far as production years on the Panorama, I say '73-'90. I saw a tube hybrid one once, but only once. Then I saw quite a few ChromacolorII, and PLENTY of early SysIII (9-153 and 9-160 junk). And plenty of the ones with the little startup board next to the FBT that "startsup a fire". Then I also saw a few later ones with the single module on the bottom with tuner mounted on mainboard. Probably about 1995 was the very last one, I would guess. Those, for some reason, were very popular in the Middle Eastern immigrant community. I can't say why, but it seemed that every customer with a Panorama was from Iran, and every Iranian immigrant household had at least one Panorama... Sounds goofy but is a valid observation. Same as all California lawyers had at least one NEC TV in the house in the early 90s  Charles
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12-04-2005, 09:37 AM
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I've got one of those sets, I'd give it to anyone that wants it. I don't know anything about it. A friend of mine closed up his TV shop about 2 years ago and it was in his back room, he was going to bust it up and put it in the dumpster, so I put it in my van and hauled it home, I've done this too many times and I really need the room....
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12-04-2005, 10:14 AM
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We had one of these sets in the lobby of a TV station that I worked at in Nashville, TN for years. It ran 12-15 hours a day, and I cant recall it ever needing any service.
I liked the fact that it could sit back into the corner and not take up so much space.
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12-11-2005, 01:20 PM
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Went for $2 bucks!
Here's another, this one's a System III http://cgi.ebay.com/Zenith-25-System...QQcmdZViewItem
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