You Don't Find Too Many 1987 Model TV Sets with Rotary Tuning

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I remember when these were sold new, in 1988, for $199 everywhere. That was a seriously cheap color set for the time, replacing the ubiquitous 19" Emerson sets in the stores that sold for about $225-250 I think. Just a basic 19" color set no frills. Rotary on-volume, and I think 5 or 6 adjustment knobs under a velcro'd hinged panel below the UHF.

I bought the RCA twin of this at walmart for my mother when her 19" GE from about 1982 finally got retired. The picture tube in the GE was almost unwatchable lavender in color, not that the set wasn't a disaster over its lifetime with color-killer issues, tuner, and other assorted problems. We were glad to put that GE out of its misery. I got handed down the RCA in college in the mid-90's and ended up giving it away before an out-of-state move. Still worked with no problems at all through the end.