Solid State Finds

[bgadow]

I keep saying I'm not going to drag home any late 70s/80s stuff. Well, I didn't drag this stuff home-my wife did! It was on sale dirt cheap at a thrift store. She called me and I told her, sure, go ahead and get it. At least they're small.

First, and most interesting, is the later version of the Panasonic VintageCollect has. A 1977 7" color portable. Dot matrix crt, AC only, works fine save for some dirty controls.

Second is a 1979 Sears 13" color. Not too exciting. Made in the USA, believe it or not...almost certainly by Sanyo at the old Warwick plant I guess. The crt is inline and made in Japan. Works great.

Third is a 1983 Teknika. Kim thought this was interesting because it is a remote set, original remote included. I had seen a Sams for a 70s Teknika, a 25" I think, that was made by Wells-Gardner. Well, on the back sticker there is a manufacturer code and when I looked in the EIA index there it was, Wells-Gardner. They couldn't have had too much to do with making it, though. The crt (13" inline) is a Toshiba and there is a lot of NEC stuff inside. Nowhere does it say where the set was assembled. Maybe W-G put it all together in Chicago or maybe they were just a go-between. Anyway, it also works, including the remote. Nothing fancy as it uses a pushbutton varactor tuner, 12 position, and the remote just lets you pick channels-no direct entry here. Also has power, mute, volume.

So, there they are...more sets on the pile!