Thoughts/Info on this 1979 Colortrak

[Greg B.]

This 20" RCA Colortrak was the last TV my parents ever bought. I remember helping them pick it out and was able to convince them to spring the extra money for a Colortrak instead of a XL-100 and then to spring for the new-fangled pushbutton tuner -- in '79 it was very cool.

It worked well for the time they had it. There was a design flaw in it though. The digital control in the tuner did not remember the last channel it was tuned to, so every time you turned it on it went to channel 4, a real PITA.

By the early/mid 80s illness had taken my mom and my dad moved on, so the TV went to my older brother. He used it for a while but it now just sits in his basement. AFAIK it still works.

Is it worth keeping/refurbing? The picture attached is not the actual set but rather one I found on the net, but ours looks exactly the same except it has the block letter RCA logo instead of the retro "Nipper" one this has (which I think makes ours a year earlier; perhaps it's a '78).

Anyinfo appreciated. Thanks!