Yesterday, an older lady called to see if I wanted 4 TV's. She said two were consoles and two were portables. I went to her home in an older neighborhood and she took me to a basement room where the TV's were, which still had old red carpet from 40+ years ago. For some reason, old carpet is always a good indication that there's going to be at least one older TV in the house. Then, she showed me the TV's: a '97 BPC Quasar TV/VCR combo, two crappy '90's Zenith consoles, and a Zenith 19" Chromacolor II. I took the two portables and left the consoles. No need to bring home something that I will have to worry about dumping.
The Zenith is a 19" CCII from March, '79 and has a one knob varactor tuner and AM/FM radio. The TV is very clean to be an old motel set. When I fired it up, I was greeted with a washed out green picture with no chroma. I swapped the chroma modules for a known good one, touched up the greyscale, and it now has a decent picture. The picture tube is the inline type like what was used in the system 3's. I've seen a few Zenith motel sets that looked like this; but, they all used the system 3 chassis.
10-27-2009, 04:55 PM
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