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bgadow · #16 03-27-2009, 10:12 PM

When I was maybe 15 (I remember I didn't have my license yet) I found 2 TV sets at a yard sale, $15 each, I could only afford one. I could have had a 9" Airline but I chose a bicentennial GE. I can still smell that set! Something in it would burn after a few minutes and I was hopeless then to try and fix it. Maybe a flyback, certainly something I could handle now. Anyway, that poor thing is long gone to the dump. I think they are really cool. I have one in tan, or some similiarly boring color! Typical of GE, these are built about as cheap as possible.

batterymaker · #17 03-28-2009, 09:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Eric H

Don't feel too bad Matt, you were born after the fact.
OTOH people of my generation can't help but know about the Bicentennial, it was a big huge Hoop-Dee-Doo at the time, Bicentennial this and Bicentennial that.

Wow, it's been 33 years already!

I still have some Bicentennial Mugs from Jack In The Box!

Tell me about it! You couldn't get away from it!! The media was inundated with it.

Still, wouldn't mind going back and seeing it again...

Celt · #18 03-28-2009, 09:42 AM

I bought a new all tube 15" B&W RCA around that same time. Woodgrain plastic and came on a cool little metal woodgrain roll cart.

Ohighway · #19 03-28-2009, 09:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Eric H

OTOH people of my generation can't help but know about the Bicentennial, it was a big huge Hoop-Dee-Doo at the time, Bicentennial this and Bicentennial that.

Oh Gawd.....Bicentennial marketing. It was horrible.... red white and blue EVERYTHING. I put it on par with Disco.... distasteful to the extreme.
Disco couldn't die quick enough, and 1976 couldn't end fast enough. The only thing good I can say is that I managed to survive through both.....

noveltyradio.co · #20 03-28-2009, 09:49 AM

Here is an antique from 1949, the RCA 49-1201

Jeffhs · #21 03-28-2009, 10:25 AM

I was born in 1956 and remember the Bicentennial very well. As Eric said, there was a huge to-do made over the event, but that's the news media these days; they will grab anything they think is big news (and the Bicentennial was, as it commemorated the 200th anniversary of the founding [for want of a better word] of the United States of America). Further, the newspapers, TV and so on will (and generally do) milk any news item they get for all it is worth, even if it means reporting on the same event for days or weeks (!) on end until there is nothing left to report; this has been going on for decades and shows absolutely no signs whatsoever of letting up. It seems worse today than it used to be because the TV newscasters and newspapers make high drama of just about everything they report these days; witness the use (or overuse, which is probably more accurate) of the word "hit" and other dramatic-sounding words in news reports and newspaper headlines, to cite just one example. I often wonder why TV news and the papers have to be so dramatic; after all, the job of any news organization is to report the day's news, not to show off or to be overdramatic. For that matter, I wish the people who write the local news stories would learn to write as the professionals do. There are two newspapers currently in circulation here in northern Ohio and both of them often contain local news stories that look for all the world as if they were written by journalism school dropouts. I wonder if newspapers in other cities are as bad. I think that because Cleveland is so darned obsessed with rock and roll music (if one can call it that; most of the modern stuff is just so much noise, to me anyway) they have let their reputation go straight down the dumper, and the newspapers and TV/radio news went right with it.

Sheeeesh! If I didn't like the small town in which I live so much (it's 33 miles east of Cleveland, so it isn't considered a suburb of the city, but unfortunately it still gets the Cleveland TV and radio stations and the two northeast Ohio newspapers) I'd leave in a minute and move to Detroit, Chicago or any other city where the newspapers are written using formal American English, not the crazy slang the northern Ohio papers and TV news insist on using day in and day out. This may be the 21st century, but that is no excuse for the poor quality of writing in newspapers and television news. If I could do it and get away with it, I'd tell those writers to clean up their act, and fast, or get out of the business.

mattdavala · #22 03-30-2009, 10:10 AM

Well it looks like I might have ordered two wrong schematics!! Both schematics don't show the correct model numbers. The 12 SE chassis that is shown on the tag of my TV is sams # 1217 folder 1. Its dated from 1971, and this TV is from 1976. Does that make sence that they'd keep this model in production that long? The cabinet does not look the same. And the model number isn't listed in the schematic.

I searched for the model number of SF2100AME and I got SAMS folder 1415 folder 2. Dated 1974. The chassis it lists is 12 SF, not my 12SE. Reading the schematic for model numbers it didn't even list the SF2100AME.

I'm really annoyed at spending 44 bucks on two schematics and I don't even know which is the correct one.
Any help please!
Thanks
Matt Davala

zenith2134 · #23 03-30-2009, 06:38 PM

I only know of an SF chassis. This is weird.

mattdavala · #24 03-30-2009, 07:06 PM

Take a good look at the close up of the tag here. I see 12SE.

http://audiokarma.org/forums/attachm...1&d=1238178029

Why must this be a mystery set?
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Matt Davala

zenith2134 · #25 03-30-2009, 07:37 PM

Seems highly suspect, but if you ask me, that's an SF chassis and there is a typo. I just checked, and my 12sf uses 110 watts as well. Also...the model number starting with SF is a giveaway since GE's other sets use the chassis number to begin the model #... Surely someone here can clarify this for Matt...

zenith2134 · #26 03-30-2009, 07:39 PM

EDIT: The Vertical and Horiz hold controls on the rear of the set are in the same location as on my 12SF.

bgadow · #27 03-31-2009, 10:42 PM

First, that basic set was in production for quite a long time. I haven't worked on them to any extent so I don't know the changes that took place. I see a notation in my Sams index that says "similiar to chassis" which means the schematic may be slightly different.

Second, for future reference, if you ever need a Sams just ask around. For instance, I have a duplicate copy of 1415-2; I usually just try to get a few dollars for them. Others here have a stash, too.

NowhereMan 1966 · #28 04-02-2009, 09:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Ohighway

Oh Gawd.....Bicentennial marketing. It was horrible.... red white and blue EVERYTHING. I put it on par with Disco.... distasteful to the extreme.
Disco couldn't die quick enough, and 1976 couldn't end fast enough. The only thing good I can say is that I managed to survive through both.....

I enjoyed the BiCentennial and disco. I guess because in 1976, my parents divorced, I turned 10 that year (my birthday is July 8th so it was close to the 4th of July) and I went through a lot of problems that year so to me, the BiCentennial was a nice divergence where I could getaway from my problems for a while. I remember all the projects in school and so on leading up to it.

NowhereMan 1966 · #29 04-02-2009, 09:07 PM

Speaking of the BiCentennial, does anyone remember the CBS "BiCentennial Minutes" that ran from 1974 to New Years' Eve 1976?

mattdavala · #30 04-06-2009, 02:39 PM

Well I finally got the Tv.

So its a 1976? Its using the 12SE chassis!! The lable was correct. Wow! What an old chassis on such a newer TV. Why was this done?

Thanks!
Matt Davala