Matt Mc_Carthy wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 MMC>> Remember?  Heck, I still have two VHF only that work!  
 MMC>> They are 'late models' though, have almost square picture tubes. 

 RJT> Would those be black and white?  

 MMC> Was there anything else back then?   :-)

Not commonly.

 RJT> ...  The oldest set I have here is one that I brought from NY 
 RJT> when I moved out of there -- in 1978!  It's a little Sony 
 RJT> KV-1212,  a 12" color set that's still (mostly) working fine,  
 RJT> except for the CRT getting a little tired.  It's the only set 
 RJT> here that has a continuous-tuning UHF tuner,  the way they all 
 RJT> used to be.

 MMC> I'm still hanging onto my dead Heathkit 12" B&W that I assembled 
 MMC> in 1962.  I used it here and overseas with lots of finicky 
 MMC> adjustments here and there until 1981 when I returned home.  When 
 MMC> we had lots of 'hurricane warnings in 1982, I dug it out and went 
 MMC> all through it with the manual and found two resistors I'd put 
 MMC> into the wrong places!

And it worked before that?

 MMC> Got that straightened out, re-aligned everything, had a perfect 
 MMC> picture, and found the little single whip antenna would pick up 
 MMC> out-of-town stations about 110 miles away.  Since it ran from 
 MMC> A/C, battery pak, and car battery, I was happy.

Sounds good.

 MMC> Went to warm my coffee, and came back to find it had tipped over
 MMC> and snapped the nipple off the back of the picture tube.  :-(((

All by itself?  Ouch.

 MMC> Even then I went through every picture tube manufacturer and
 MMC> re-manufacturer, and nothing like it existed.  I still keep hoping
 MMC> I will some day stumble on one in a trash pile somewhere...  Got
 MMC> any GRC-104a picture tubes laying around?   :-))

Nope,  I had a ton of them at one point in time,  from stuff that I'd
scrapped out,  but I found a guy who actually wanted them (heaven only
knows what for), and when he came to take them away I was happy.  Is that
the only number on it?  I'll try and remember it,  you never know what
might happen...

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