RCA XL-100 Find

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I just acquired from a thrift store yesterday a 1984 13" XL-100 set. It is in a small cabinet with woodgrain colored plastic. It only has screw terminals for the antennas, no coax connection. Although I usually don't buy sets this new, I liked it because it was solidly built, very stylish (not like the 1987 black box xl-100 it was sitting near) and has a single rotary tuning knob with lighted channel indicator. The dial is calibrated 2-13, A-F. The numbers are backlit, not LED and the tuning control is on the right side of the cabinet. I haven't powered it up yet. I was wondering, what do you think of the RCAs from this era from a quality and performace standpoint?

Also, does anyone have a tuning knob for this set? Mine is totally gone. Apparently it broke off and I don't even know what it is supposed to look like. I will post a pic of the set soon. I like it because it still has a sort of late seventies style and lighted channel numbers on a rotary drum are just not seen anymore.