25 Oct 2003, 12:05, Roy J. Tellason (1:270/615), wrote to Matt Mc_Carthy:

Hi Roy.

 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?  

Was there anything else back then?   :-)

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

I'm still hanging onto my dead Heathkit 12" B&W that I assembled
in 1962.  I used it here and overseas with lots of finicky adjustments here
and there until 1981 when I returned home.  When we had lots of 'hurricane
warnings in 1982, I dug it out and went all through it with the manual and
found two resistors I'd put into the wrong places!  Got that straightened
out, re-aligned everything, had a perfect picture, and found the little
single whip antenna would pick up out-of-town stations about 110 miles
away.  Since it ran from A/C, battery pak, and car battery, I was happy.  

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

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


     Good luck...  M.

--- Msged/386 TE 06 (pre)