Found: 1976 MGA (Mitsubishi) Portable

[Eric H]

Picked this up since it was half off day, it's an August 1976 built MGA CS-1300 color portable. I thought it was missing a small knob so I almost wasn't going to get it, on closer inspection the "hole" where I thought the knob should be was actually the AFC indicator light.
One rabbit ear is mangled a bit but that's the only damage.

I feared the CRT might be weak because it looked pretty soft but after readjusting the focus and a slight tweak of the tracking it looks really sharp with good gray scale.

I like these 1970's "Mod" plastic sets, they are a nice change from the normal wood grain plastic.

This sucker is DIRTY! It smells like dryer sheets so maybe it was in a laundry room, there's a slightly oily grunge under the lint so perhaps some tobacco too.
The cabinet is in really good shape, it just needs cleaned and to buff out the white areas, it's not yellowed like a lot of these are.

Note: the test pattern needs to be redone, I forgot to crop off the bottom of the picture so it makes it look like it's off center to the top.