Orange GE Portable - Is it Worth It?

[etype2]

Originally Posted by kc8adu

it would be nice to know the date on that one.the 79 model i had was red.
iirc the 80 that was reported to me was yellow.
$10 is a no brainer.grab it.
its definately a porta color.

See post #11 for photo. Mine is nearly identical except for the location of vol, color and tint controls. It has a date sticker of April 1976.

... but this one could still be from another year.

[jwharris]

Unfortunately, the date sticker on this one is destroyed. All that is legible is May. I am going to take some better photos of it and see if I can't find anything inside of it that would reveal a date of some sort.

[Zenith26kc20]

I'd jump on it They are fun sets to work on. Bizarre color circuitry (ringing color oscillator) if I remember. Also, I remember just two IF's so todays converter boxes are a shoe in!
The later SS ones with the griplets were good performers after you fed them half a roll of solder!

[DavGoodlin]

Half a roll....boy do I remember griplets!(lucky after all the lead I inhaled) Those GE's went on forever once you played solder-jockey with 'em, I had "the procedure" down to 18 minutes and 2 smokes.

IIRC, The Griplet I (portacolor) and Griplet II (chassis17AA and larger) sets were from 1978 and later.