I have a 19" Sears Medallist II set that I would say is from the early 70s or maybe the late 60s. The set works good, but I have WAY too many TVs! Are these sets of any interest to anyone? I am old enough now that 70s and up stuff really doesn't look old or interesting to me, but you never know what may be fascinating to someone younger. I bought it to use, but simply don't need it anymore and I'm not sure what to do with it. I'm hoping that there is some younger generation of TV nuts out there that see something like this with the fascination that I remember when I was finding 40s-50s sets in the 80s.
Times have certainly changed! I remember older people keeping their old console sets LONG after they had upgraded to color or simply a bigger screen. In the 80s there were a ton of old sets to be found and many were still in use. One thing is, people simply didn't have a TV playing nearly all of the time like many do now, so it took longer to wear one out. If and when it did wear out you could get it fixed. Now I believe that they are engineered to fail within five or so years for and when a TV screws up it gets thrown away with all of the other plastic crap. Why would anyone want to keep any cheap, Chinese, ugly set made in recent decades around if it is broken? Most wouldn't; so a working set from the last of the tube years (70s) may be sort of a rare commodity in 2010, being from the beginning of the throw away/plastic cabinet age. Perhaps virtually all of them got thrown away and I have something cool!!
