1979 Quasar Renovation

[Jon A.]

Originally Posted by TUD1

Here is a screenshot of the 1979 Quasar. To be honest, I didn't expect it to be this good. Never underestimate the power of a good cleaning and some DeOxit.

That's a sweet set. I have wanted one with separate VHF and UHF knobs for some time. There was one at a friend's place when I was about 10. I would be stoked to find one like yours though.

Originally Posted by dieseljeep

Motorola and many other firms were just customers of the Sylvania receiving and CRT division. It seems that the vacuum tube and lamp divisions remained with Sylvania Electric Products, Inc.
The Consumer Electronics division seemed to the be sold to General Telephone sometime in the early '60's. Later, Philips bought them both.
The small town, I live in now had General Telephone, later Verison, now Frontier. Right now, my land-line is Time Warner.

My 1979 Sylvania carries the GTE logo, but the remote I'm using for it carries the NAP logo. No Sylvania name on that remote, but otherwise it's identical to earlier units. Must have been a limited run of replacement remotes made.

[Captainclock]

Originally Posted by Jon A.

That's a sweet set. I have wanted one with separate VHF and UHF knobs for some time. There was one at a friend's place when I was about 10. I would be stoked to find one like yours though.

My 1979 Sylvania carries the GTE logo, but the remote I'm using for it carries the NAP logo. No Sylvania name on that remote, but otherwise it's identical to earlier units. Must have been a limited run of replacement remotes made.

Interestingly enough I have an Atari Missile Command Upright Arcade game at my parents place that's from 1979 and the original Fluroscent bulb used to backlight the nameplate on the front is still in it and it was a Sylvania/GTE Branded lightbulb...