Photo of 1984 RCA ColorTrak 2000 monitor
 

I've shown other photos of this TV in the past, but it's been awhile. This is a rather rare RCA ColorTrak 2000 19" table model with the full jack panel and top of the line remote. Looks like the photo was probably taken in the 90s or so… But if you look closely, there's a foreign object ontop of the TV with the rabbit ears. This room is 99.999 UN-TOUCHED and unused since the spring of 1995, and the house has only been slept in 9 or 10 nights since then. Photo was taken last Tuesday!

It's my wife's house in Dallas, where we stayed over Christmas. We keep the house as a "time capsule", and deliberately don't replace the magazines and papers, etc. I plan to hide the ATSC converter box in the cabinet so as to keep the original look of the room. Even the frozen food is in the freezer from '95, and my wife's '89 Supra turbo; showroom condition with 14k miles is in the garage with 1995 gas still in the tank, and flat tires which are now white and brown with time :sigh:

Charles

So who cuts the grass? Just curious :)

It's in an HOA community… Gardening comes with the dues :thmbsp: . And my mother-in-law lives nearby and keeps an eye on the house.

Charles

that is just awesome !

fortunate you and your wife are .

That is awesome!

I want to do that once I move the next time. Set up an "80s" room.

That audio system is very much the period! Nice speakers too. I bet that funny little box works quite well on the RCA. Was that remote not the most versatile thing of the time also?

Dallas has quite a few TV channels, even when I lived there in 83-84, having brought a 1970 Zenith color console and 1966 Metal 19" Philco color luggable to town with me.
Indoor antennas worked great then.

Wow, I love it. Time capsules of any kind are fine by me! Nice RCA

I hope that Supra hasn't been started with that varnish in the tank. ;)
Similar to what I would do, I would go for a 70s/80s crossover decor scheme, and use the entire place for it.

i have the same set but without the full jack panel i sold it new and it ended back home with me. it has bass and treble controls and a sharp pix.

those were good sets.had a couple of them and they were fine performers with a sharp picture.

I would definitly like to see other parts of the house! That is really cool!

Nobody has messed with the Supra, but I plan to trailer the car to Los Angeles next summer, and go through it (tires, fuel system- convert to nitrile injector o-rings, new filter & hoses, and boil the tank, cooling system, timing belt, etc). Then I'll trailer it back, put ethanol-free (aviation) gas in it with preservative, and we'll drive it a couple times a year in Dallas. It still has the early type toll transponder with the antenna sticking out! I hope that can still work.



Thanks! I'm glad she kept it like that all this time, and that she was able to afford it.

I noticed there are a ton of local stations now, and in fact, I think I get more now than with NTSC the first time I was there in '06.

Fort the stereo, I think that's actually parts of two systems. It all still works, since I re-belted the cassette deck. The amp is a Pioneer; she might have gotten that from the original owner of the house, since there is a multi-room speaker network. The rest of it is a middle-end Kenwood stack with turntable.

I like it… Had to do the usual solder connection job on the tuner controller, but otherwise it's never been worked on. Only thing I hate, is the auto brightness. No way to shut it off on that set.


Charles

... it is so refreshing to see a "vintage" home and contents left alone and unmolested.

while many homes need a refurb/refreshment, to me it is sickening to see a perfectly good dwelling "flipped" into a modern decor, full of assemble it yourself crap furniture from Ikea and Target ... or even worse, filled with repurposed shabby chic furniture