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I still have ( in working condition, although cosmetically it's really beat up ) the 1986 14 inch Sharp TV I have since new ( I was 9 at the time ). It's a color set, in fact, my mother bought two of those on the same day, one was to be used with the VCR ( Panasonic - I saved it from being dumped ) she had bought just a few days before ( our first VCR - cost a hell of a fortune back then ), and the other was to be my bedroom set. My Sharp is still with me, but it's twin is on a TV repair shop, awaiting parts that probably will never appear ( it's among some tens or hundreds of TVs, VCRs, DVDs, microwave stoves and other appliances; besides, Sharp of Brazil closed it's doors some years ago ).
Those two Sharps were bought to take the place of a 1978 20 inch color Philco Ford. That Philco Ford was given to a relative, and later got dumped. The first TV of my childhood, the one that actually was my first bedroom TV, and that I would like to find today, is a 1974 some 20 inch black and white Philco Ford. It's a huge wooden table model set, not particularly attractive in my opinion ( I am a big fan of early-mid fifties TV sets ) but for nostalgic, among other reasons, I would like to find one. This particular set ended dumped after it spent some years on a warehouse on the back of my grandmother's house. It was still in mint cosmetic condition when it was dumped. It's kind of ironic that today I have many sets, that are way much older and rarer than this one, but haven't stumbled across this TV, that was a very common to find TV until some 25 years ago.
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02-09-2008, 06:26 PM
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Mine would be the RCA 19" console. I believe a CTC-19? That was our first color set. Flyback burned up in 1977, and my Uncle who was a TV dealer, set my parents up with a Zenith, and didn't repair the RCA. Would LOVE to find a working one now.
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02-09-2008, 10:11 PM
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I've been wanting to find what I think was a 13 inch B&W tv. It was orange and I remember it being roundish on all sides. After my Grandaddy died we inherited his motorhome. My Dad drove it across the country and we parked it out in the driveway. I used to spend most nights out there just watching my Grandaddy's TV. Not sure what kind it was, but to this day if I think B&W portable, that is what pops up in my mind. This was around '78 or so.
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02-09-2008, 10:45 PM
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I found MY "1st" TV long ago...My parents got me one of those ubiquitous 5" Sonys for Christmas 1963, IIRC. I remember my dad took me into General Products on Gay Street in Knoxville in late '63 & showed me those little guys..They were something like 300 bux, IIRC, but I begged & begged for one. Well, Christmas came, I had the croup, the crud, or something, I was too sick to walk into the living room to see it, they had it plugged in & on under the tree. I remember saying "That's nice", & then my dad carried me back to bed. I had that little guy til the summer they went to the Moon, it gave up the ghost then. Doesn't sound like much, but that little TV suffered the tortures of the damnded..& like a Timex, it "Took a Lickin', & kept on Tickin'"...Now, I have one sitting up on my mantle about 10' away. They are pretty common finds on You-Know-Where, & most of the time, they seem to still work...
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02-09-2008, 11:22 PM
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02-10-2008, 02:19 AM
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There are a couple of otherwise uninteresting sets from my childhood that I'd grab if I saw them today.
The first would be a Toshiba 14" "blackstripe" monitor style set from the mid 80s. It was from when monitor style sets were a new idea, but otherwise it was pretty basic. No remote, no AV inputs. The only reason it is significant to me is that my parents bought it go with my Tandy Color Computer. I spent countless hours in front of it typing in BASIC code. When my parents split it went to my mothers house as her only TV. As far as I know it was dumped or given away when she married some whackjob who considered TV (and pretty much everything else) evil and they moved out to the middle of nowhere. Then there was a 9" Kriesler B&W set. It was given to me by a neighbour when I was 10 years old complete with a pair of pliers to change channels. It was the first TV that was completely mine (the Toshiba was often used by the rest of the family as a second set). I don't know what happened to that one. I think it evetually died and was dumped. I probably took it apart, but I didn't have the skills back then to actually fix it.
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02-10-2008, 09:32 AM
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Radiophile, here's a pic of the Philco.
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BUMMER! Sorry, that's not it......thanks for the effort, tho, Cap'n.....! This one looks like a newer model.
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02-11-2008, 06:25 PM
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The one I'd LIKE to have is my granfather's Zenith. It had one of those old Zenith "Ker-Chunk !!" remotes, was B&W, but had an almost round screen, was about 21" I'd imagine & was VERY "1956" looking, if you follow me. He had that set for YEARS, I don't remember what happened to it, but it's long since gone. I think it got tossed in '68 when they moved the '65 Zenith color roundie outta his office to his bedroom, & replaced the roundie in the office w/a 23" rectangular Zenith color. It had a "Ker-Chunk!!" remote, too, & I never much liked that set, even though it was color. It seemed cheap & tinny compared to old 1956. The picture was lousy- I don't think it was ever really set up properly. I stole it in '89 after he died, & they cleaned his office out. Gave it to a friend, wish now I'd kept it, in spite of itself.
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