1976 Quasar console at a thrift

[zeno]

Originally Posted by RCAZenith

I have seldom seen them on anything but a knob tuned set. Is there any particular reason for that? Digital tuned tvs (usually bpc's) usually have only coax.

Knob jobs had 2 tuners so 2 inputs.
Early varactors & digitals started with 2 TNR's. Then they
put it all in one pkg with 2 inputs. To make things cheaper,
smaller & better eventually built the matching & splitting into
the single U/V tuner.