Our family TV in the 1980s (up until late 1988) was identical to that one, except it had a plainer wooden cabinet. It was a compact cabinet; it didn't have those decorative spindles on the sides. Also, it had wooden legs that were just tall enough to be able to slide an Atari 2600 under the TV for safe keeping, unlike a lot of console TVs that didn't have legs at all, so you couldn't slide anything under them.
I think it had a tube or hybrid chassis, because it always took about 30 to 45 seconds for the raster to appear when you turned it on, though the audio would come on in just a couple/few seconds. Dad always said it was because the tubes needed time to warm up.
That's the only picture I've been able to find online that has the exact same bezel and control panel that our TV had, and I've been looking for years (I found that picture in 2011). I've found ones that have a similar looking control panel (plenty of them in the 1971 RCA catalog; haven't been able to find, say, a 1970 or 1969 RCA catalog online), but they have a separate power switch above the VHF tuner dial (looks like a wide lever that you pull down to power it on), whereas ours didn't have that. To turn ours on you pulled the volume knob outward (toward yourself).
10-25-2023, 03:09 PM
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