another addition
 

http://paintforcars.com/Merchant2/im...a7ce6d11df.jpg71 mint motorola/quasar


http://images.craigslist.org/3Kc3L43...f43a201fba.jpg

came with original paperwork

Oh wow.. NICE!

What he said...+1 !

Thanks for the compliments. This cabinet is immaculate, i swear it looks like it just came out of the box

Nice one! I wonder if it's from the Motorola or Matsushita era?

NICE:banana:
A real Motorola. IIRC had a switcher PS, JA board ?
Not to be toyed with, we just changed them.
I wouldnt be able to pass it up.............

73 Zeno:smoke:

The remote control looks like one of the ultrasonic ones like the Zenith Space Command. If so, I would say this was from the Motorola era.
Is this one of the "works in a drawer" Motorolas?

Wow, super nice!

That was a high dollar set in the day.

she had the original receipt from late 1971. She paid $679.

afaik, it predates matushita by about 4 years. They weren't involved until about 1975-1976.

and yes, it is a chassis in a drawer layout. As far as the remote, it is the metallic non infrared type, just like the zenith.

My cousin and I figured out we could cough in just the right way and activate the channel changer. Used to drive my grandparents nuts!

Later they added a third button for channel up and down.

I think that control layout was short lived as later ones were different.

have heard a dog with a collar or a set of keys will change the channel

Hard to believe they had such "Square" CRTs then...Is this Bad Boy a hybrid, or all Soiled State ?

Most likely hybrid by that time. Nice set! looks new!

Very nice buddy!!

I think this is like the old Zenith console we had in Hong Kong when I was a kid. I remember that putting on a belt while standing in the front room, made the channel start changing. I wasn't old enough to be paying any attention to TV sets yet, but I did realize quickly enough that it was ONE belt that had a particularly "jingle-ly" belt buckle that would do this. The remote was a three or four button thing with the little metal tuned bits.

That set is long gone. One day it came on to only the top half of the picture....and as a kid, I thought the term "cracked yolk" was an odd diagnosis (of course NOW I know they meant "cracked yoke"). I think the TV disappeared after this...probly late 70s.

The vacuum cleaner would make our Sylvania Superset with ultrasonic remote change channels.

Sandy, That is indeed soiled state:yes:, 1972 and not the first SS Motorola color either, similar to my TS-938 in #5 of this thread http://videokarma.org/showthread.php?t=257310

Nice Set Technicolor - that is a fine addition to your museum of USA's best TVs!

an update
 

Well, all good things come to an end. The set took a powder on sunday morning.

Fortunately for me, a vk member really wanted that set and i was able to make a trade for the roundie picture tube i need bad.

He's got a lot more skills than i do, (doesn;t everybody) so that set is going for a full resto.

Well Joe, a lot of credit still goes to you for saving that set and passing it on to someone else who'll restore it.

Those sets used modular components that were intendend to be plug in-out for replacement. They were made in Japan. I don't think the 71-72's were as much of a problem, but I remember by 73 there were some real quality issues with them. I remember my other grandparents had a 73 and it had a lot of trouble. My grandfather worked on it several times, usually for free because he felt bad about it. He always blamed the "boards from Japan."

BTW: I just found out that Zenith tried to buy Quasar from Motorola. They couldn't come to terms, and Zenith later sued Moto to try to stop the sale to Matsushita. I just ordered a book that details it and I'll read more when it gets here.

[QUOTE=technicolor;3071209]Well, all good things come to an end. The set took a powder on sunday morning.
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What happened to it?

[QUOTE=Dreamsbeard;3071214]The buyer has informed me that the motorolas didn't have the high quaility caps that zenith did. The seller has now confirmed that the set hadn't been touched in years. ANd was finally fired up this week. So apparently, it had one last gasp of breath in it, plugged it in on sunday morning and it started shutting off after a minute or two. My guess is caps.

But i'm not complaining, sure was cheaper than a what a roundie crt is going for these days.

I get the crt i need, and a buyer who has been looking for one of these sets for awhile and who has the skills to repair it finally get;s the set he is looking for.