A Zenith TV with a clear back for teaching!?

[dtuomi]

Originally Posted by Carmine

I should also mention that my parents bought nearly the same set in 1975 as their first color TV. We had it for 9 years, and it was replaced by a 19" remote Sylvania Superset. The major (and only) complaint with the Zenith was that the colors would sometimes "shift"... Now I'm pretty sure that it was probably just dirty modules (a good whack always brought it back) but back then I cared little for Solid-State sets. When the colors weren't "shifting", the pic was still as good as anything new.

My family owned this set from about 1976 when our old RCA color set was stolen. About 1982 they got a new Sylvania set and I got the Zenith. It became my 19" Commodore 64 monitor. And it kept going until around 1994 when I was in college. It was only repaired once while I owned it. And your right, it did shift colors (really noticable on a computer display) and a good whack would shift them back. It wasn't as bad for broadcasts. We had cable here in Ventura County, but I didn't get that in my room. My house did have an ancient television antenna that I was able to get hooked up to the TV, and it is a really good performer. My fondest memory was watching the 1984 Olympic Games coming from L.A. on that set off that crumbling old antenna. The set was given away to the Retarded Children group (who my parents always donated to). They will fix stuff up and resale it. I'm sure my old TV is still working away somewhere. It was still running when it left. I just finally could afford a real monitor by then.

David