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I have a DuMont table model color set from 69 or early 70. Certainly not a portable, basically just a console cabinet without legs. Why I don't have a photo to share, I don't know. Guess I'll have to snap one. I have seen portables while going through stacks of Photofacts, and my guess is that they might have been rebadged imports-could be wrong, though. I think Emerson/DuMont only ever had one basic color chassis that they actually designed/built themselves. It might have gotten crammed into some 19" models but I don't think it could be made more compact than that. Interesting about the Fairchild connection-could that maybe have been Canadian? I had always heard Emerson took over around 57. In color sets, from examples owned among VK members, it appears they were RCA clones until about '66 when they went to their unique chassis, which also uses PC boards. Sometime in '70 they closed their factory and sublet production to Admiral.
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Bryan
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