Why is it?

[holmesuser01]

I also serviced Magnavox.

YES, they were hard to get manuals from.

As soon as it was all official, I started getting packages of Maggie literature, advertising stuff, offers for inexpensive things to hang in the shop. I didn't hang it all. I've still got a couple of my little electric signs...

Parts were easy AFTER I joined the company. I believe I too got about a 20% discount on parts... Certain parts, like deflection tubes, could be bought at some nice prices about twice a year.

When looking for flybacks for older tube color chassis, they would often be out of stock for months until they got enough orders to have some made. They didn't last any longer than the OEM's did.

My favorite thing about working with them was going to the Training Center outside Knoxville, TN right after it opened. Learned lots of tricks, and several times, brought home a pick-up load of tubes that had been discovered in a crate... (They were building the SS chassis by this time.) When Philips took over, I started pulling away.

Lots of people that I had worked with there for years were suddenly gone. No real warning, either.