RCA "mini-console" 12" B&W

[radiotvnut]

I think the oldest set I've owned that used compactrons was a circa '61 GE B&W console. It was one of their nicer models with a power transformer.

Audiotronics used a 6T9 compactron as the driver and output tube in some of their record players and radios that were marketed towards schools.

[kx250rider]

Common but interesting, and it's real wood. I've had a few of them.

Charles

[orthophonic]

I don't know why sellers always think it is a salesman sample. I remember
seeing them on the store shelves arournd 1970 or 71, they were a few dollars
more than the other 12" tvs.

[Sandy G]

I had the 9" model, it needed a little help, I took it to Terry's, & he & his wife made such a fuss over it. I just up 'n' GAVE it to them.

[radiotvnut]

It's now in my hands. It's a 4-tube 9" set with late '69 date codes on the tubes; so, it's probably a 1970 model. The four tubes consist of a video output tube, vertical osc.output tube, horizontal osc tube, and the horizontal output/damper tube. The set is fairly clean and looks to be a low hours set. The only real problem is the rod antenna is broken and will need to be replaced.

[radiotvnut]

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by radiotvnut

It's now in my hands. It's a 4-tube 9" set with late '69 date codes on the tubes; so, it's probably a 1970 model. The four tubes consist of a video output tube, vertical osc.output tube, horizontal osc tube, and the horizontal output/damper tube. The set is fairly clean and looks to be a low hours set. The only real problem is the rod antenna is broken and will need to be replaced.

Unless there are still VHF translators or LPTV stations in your area, you probably don't need that monopole antenna anyway (unless you want to replace it simply for the sake of the looks of the set) since all full-power TV stations are digital. The set should work on cable or with a converter box, the former at least until analog cable is done away with -- whenever that may be.

BTW, I looked at the picture of your RCA 9" TV and saw that it does, in fact, have the block RCA logo at the far left-hand end of the trim strip above the CRT, so yes, your set was almost certainly made after 1968, the year in which RCA switched from its decades-old round "RCA" logo to the block one that even Thomson (or whomever makes the guts of RCA-branded flat-screen televisions these days) uses on its sets today.