Oh nothing much, just an RCA DIMENSIA!!

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Okay... Okay let me re enact when I first saw this TV sitting on the curb last night:

"What's this?"



"Oh, that is a lot of inputs... What the heck is this thing?"



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"Oh my god! I never thought I would find one of these!!"


"Does it work?! Does it work?!"




""OH MY GOD IT WORKS! IT WORKS IT WORKS IT WORKS!!"


Okay... Okay... Okay... Let me just take a moment to think about the odds of finding what was probably the best consumer grade RCA TV that you could buy at the time.

I don't think you could have gotten a better RCA TV, unless it was a commercial installation.

You may be familiar with the ColorTrak 2000 TV's from RCA, well those were a derivative of the Dimensia.




Made in November 1987. If I understand my history correctly this was *just* before RCA was sold to Thomson. GE had acquired them, but didn't sell the TV division of RCA to Thomson until 1988.


This makes this one of the last true RCA sets.


Oh I have to get the back off of this! I have to see what it looks like!



My God... look at how clean it is inside!!

There is hardly any dust! The HV anode lead hasn't grown fur on it! Either this TV was opened and cleaned regularly, which is amazing seeing as it looks like it was never opened before.

Or...

Or...

Or... this is a low hour set!!


I mean I plugged it in, turned it on, and the picture came right up! And it's on the default brightness and contrast settings! I have yet to try it with a signal, but even the snow on the screen looks bright and sharp!



Gentlemen: I think I have found RCA's swan song.