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Originally Posted by radiotvnut
Finding one of these sets that hasn't had it's tuner soldered is almost as rare as finding a '94 Zenith console with a good CRT.
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I've got a 177 in my bedroom that's never been resoldered. Since it's left on channel 4 now, I no longer have to give it a slap.
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Originally Posted by davet753
Those sets worked pretty well, but the tuners were troublesome. They also had issues with the EEPROM IC-chip. If I remember correctly, EEPROM was an acronym for "electronic erasable programmable read only memory" and it was a little 8-pin chip. RCA had about a dozen different versions of this chip, and they all caused problems.
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My EEPROM failed partially when pressing the remote's "Channel Return" button reset the TV to original factory settings instead. I cut the button out with an X-Acto blade.