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I don't know WHO buys consoles anymore, though I suspect it's old people. I think a lot of poor people have them too, and that's not surprising. Granny dies, kids don't want console, it goes to the Salavation Army, ends up going into its 2nd home....
I've seen roundies still in service in depressed areas. They work, they're 'good enough', and they last. Well, until a flat panel screen became a "must have" status symbol...
On that old Philco - was that another badge engineered RCA design, or did they have any origional ideas in it?
Oh yeah, anyone ever make a roundie with automagic fine tunning? That was always a neat feature that seems to have taken forever to catch on, though IIRC, it's just a few parts and a varactor diode. Ditto for automatic chroma gain, which RCA didn't have even in the CTC-16s.
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