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19" Curtis Mathes from '78...a $1 estate sale find
Honestly, I've never been a huge fan of Curtis-Mathes TV's and some of them were the most overpriced, overrated junk that was made; but, when I saw this 19" color set from '78 at an estate sale for $1, I felt sorry for it and adopted it.
I have not pulled the back; but, it looks like it was made by NEC and when I fired it up, it still has a bright raster with good grey scale; so, we know the tube is good. This set is fairly heavy and might turn out to be decent.
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I opened it up and it indeed uses an NEC chassis, with lots of cigarette paste.
The TV fires up; but, the vertical is shrunken a bit, the purity and convergence is off, and there are some other issues. The TV was made in November of '78; but, the CRT is date-coded the 22nd week of '79 and is a 19VJQP22 CM-badged RCA (EIA 274). That tells me that this set most likely got a CRT replacement under warranty. Oddly enough, this set has "instant on" and this is the newest set I've seen with that feature. I will disable it, when I fix the set.
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I had adopted a 1974 GTE/Sylvania 25" Console Color TV from 1974 from its original owners and I was wondering if that TV would of had "instant on" or not and how to figure that out. |
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