Yet Another One Finds Me!

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I have a friend that I run into maybe once or twice a year. Every time, she mentions that she really is going to get over to see me, and bring along her father's old Philco for me to fix up. She usually mentions some other radios she wants to give me, and once she talked of her parents "first tv". I take it all with a grain of salt, one because I know she has a hectic life and probably won't ever really get over here with that stuff, and two, I have found that people who don't know about radios/tv's tend to get their info wrong. Plenty of times somebody has come to me asking if I want their "first tv/first color tv" and I expected something like a CTC-17 or a 25MC30. When I go to look at the set it turns out to be a System 3 or Colortrak, in all its particle board glory.

Well, today my friend showed up at my office and what did she have in the back of her truck? First, her Dad's Philco console, a '48 "over and under" combo. Fairly basic, shouldn't be too much trouble to bring back to life. (famous last words!) But wait, what else is that in the back? I had forgotten she ever mentioned it:

Yep, a genuine Zenith $ervice $aver! Nothing real fancy, the cabinet is worn, but it's all there and didn't cost anything. Unlike all those beauties that Doug finds out in Chicagoland, this one saw some use and isn't exactly dust free!

Looks like the original Chromacolor crt and a '71 build date. (she mentioned that her parents bought it when they got married 48 years ago, so she was off like most folks, but still this is old enough!) For now I've left it at work; I'll take the isotap to work tomorrow and see how it reacts to a slow wake up.