My flea market friend gave me this '84 Emerson portable B&W TV/radio/cassette recorder combination. The radio works, the TV suffers from what these portable TV's suffered from after the DTV transition, and the cassette recorder sounds like it needs belts. I have the missing knob; but, it's broken and needs to be glued back together. Also, I need to clean up the case and remove the stickers. For a signal, I clipped an aligator clip lead between the center pin of the TV cable and the rod antenna. There is an external antenna jack; but, I don't have the necessary adapter to enable it to accept a coax connector. This unit also has RCA audio input jacks as well as external speaker and microphone input jacks.
My Sister had this exact same TV and, to my knowledge, it never gave her a minutes trouble. I don't know what happened to it; but, I'm sure she donated it to the local overpriced church thrift store that she was involved with during the mid '90's.
Come to think of it, I don't remember seeing too many TV's with a cassette recorder. The TV/radio models were common; but, I guess most people didn't feel the need to spend the extra money for a cassette recorder.
12-09-2010, 04:32 PM
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