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That's a neat set and it's certainly one I'd pick up, if the price was right. I did see one on epay; but, the seller wanted WAY too much money for it.
The last 12" B&W's I remember seeing were branded "Action" and were from around '93-'94. I think they sold for $39.99, ran off a wall wart, and had rotary tuners. They were cheaply made and didn't hold up well. When I was getting ready to graduate from college in '01, one of my classmates from, who was from Africa and was studying over here, gave me one of those sets. He said it had served his purpose and was no longer needed. By that time, he was probably the only student on campus who was still watching a B&W TV.
I think I remember seeing some 19" B&W sets as recent as the mid '80's and I know Zenith made a 23" B&W console as recent as '81. I have the photofact on that set and the model prefix puts it in the '81 model year. Personally, I own a 22" Sylvania solid state B&W console from '78. It was a NOS set that I obtained from a dealer who had gone out of business and he said that there were plenty of older people who refused to own a color TV and that his store kept B&W sets in stock for as long as they could get them.
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