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Originally Posted by Carmine
For these reasons, I've never understood the reverence for Sarnoff or RCA's fairly disposable "printed circuit and tube" products. As far as I'm concerned, the fact that his monument is abandoned and in ruins is somewhat poetic justice.
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It bugs me too about the printed circuits with tubes. That is why the only RCA sets I have are the fully hand wired type. My color set is a Zenith for this reason. Unless someone goes to the trouble to replicate replacement circuit boards for the popular RCA CTC chassis, those sets will be harder to keep running down the road. I agree with the Zenith ads that say no printed wiring means no production shortcuts. GE used a lot of PC boards with tubes as well and some of them can get pretty crusty after thousands of hours.
Sarnoff, by the way, was not someone to be admired at least as far as his character goes. He did, however, help bring radio, TV and color TV to the mainstream public.