Picked up a 19" GE "Porta-View" tube B&W from the TV shop.

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Well, it finally happened. A tube-type TV made it's way into the TV shop. He called yesterday to say that he had a bunch of sets for me. I'm thinking it's a bunch of modern stuff when he said "oh, BTW, I have 3 older rotary dial TV's for you among all this stuff." Then, I got to thinking early '90's Emerson's and Samsung's. He said this older lady brought 4 TV's in and asked him to fix one for her and trash the rest. When I went down there today, I found this 19" GE "porta-view" tube type B&W. After checking it, I found that the CRT is very weak and that it has vertical problems. The set also has lighted dials, a sleep timer, and is housed in a steel cabinet. As best I can tell from date codes; it was made in '67. He told me that the owner had not offically trashed the sets yet; so, please hang on to them a few days. He said if she wanted them back, he was going to charge her $25 per set check out fee. It will piss me off if I have to give these sets back after they are now in my hands. The other two sets were a 19" GE EC chassis motel set and a 19" RCA XL100. I'll do a seperate thread on them.