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Jeff, I'd say you are right on the money about XL100 meaning nothing today. Guess using that was easier than coming up with a new name! Heck, just as well dust off the New Vista name!
It sticks in my mind, from something I read long ago, that the first 3 solid state color sets were Motorola, RCA & Sears. I don't know the story behind the Sears set but clearly remember reading that in more than one place. May have been an RCA in disguise? I would say that having a solid state set in your lineup would have been a real matter of pride at that time...there are several major players for whom I can't recall seeing a solid state color set from "the turn of the decade". GE comes to mind as does Admiral. I once had a junker Sylvania, which had been a very nice set at one time, it looked like about a '70 model give or take, and was solid state if I remember right. (I brought that home the same time as a similiar Magnavox, one was tube, I think)
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