The sets in my collection that have a "story" behind them...are my favorites. This one was given to me when I saw dad tinkering with it back in around 1993 (Just after I brought him to the states from Hong Kong). His priorities when he first got here.....WORKSHOP in the garage, even before we got him a bed and rice cooker
Mom and him lived up in L.A. at our "big family" house....because I didn't want them living alone in their 60s, and....that is just how us Chinese roll. NO sending the elders off to wherever and forgetting them!!
Dad built up a little workbench in the garage to play with little electronic projects. I suspect he found alot of things to play with when he did his big long morning walks. Like me, he liked to work on smaller items (probly because he dragged them home from some curb
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I liked that little set...and I had no TV collection at all at the time. When I got him a 27" Sony and DVD player, he gave me that little 303W. I thought it was cute.....and I would turn it on every few months just to see it run, but didn't really think much about it.
When I lost Dad (quite suddenly one morning almost two years ago)....I came up to L.A. and was surprised he had a small collection of (mostly boring) very small TV sets he had resurected on his little workbench in the garage. Everyone else in the house was a bit surprised as well. One day I heard that the workbench was going to be reclaimed....and the TVs ... "dunno...who would want those anyway".... led me to put them all in the car and take them home with me. I now had a little collection of about seven sets.....AND, found a little "wish list" of some odd descriptions like "Quasar Pac-Man", Sony 301 and "panasonic tiny".
This little Sony 303W and then the REST of my dad's collection is what started my collection. I found a few sets on his wish list....and decided that since the Quasar "Pac-Man" was so quirky...that I would stay weird and get the more unusual sets.