What year Zenith?

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by radiotvnut

My first experience with one of those was a low hours set that someone gave me, back around '93. I repaired the 9-160 module and sold it real quick for $85. That's right, $85 - for a 13" set! My, how times have changed.

Currently, I have two similar models. One has a single knob varactor tuner and the other one has an oddball continuous tuner. I also have a 9-181-based 13" from '84, with a standard dual knob tuner.

Wow, the used TV supply must have sucked down there back then! I remember buying my first TV a used mid-80's 15" knob tuned Emerson in the mid 90's at a garage sale in the Chicago suburbs for $10, and seeing many other similar sets back then in the $10-30 range....Of course the radio belt has always had a better appetite than the south for electronics as can be seen in the mountains of VCRs that and TVs that showed up in the thrifts here (when at the same time almost none in the part of the south I moved back here from).