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Originally Posted by Jeffhs
I grew up in the late '60s-'70s. Most of the TVs I had until the mid-'70s were trash finds or second-hand sets from relatives. My first set was a 1950s Capehart console; the next one, if I remember correctly, was a 1955 Emerson metal-cased b&w portable, the second color set I owned (after my Silvertone CTC15 clone) was a Silvertone (Toshiba made) 16", and so on. The first TV I bought new was a "Kenco" (house brand of the now-defunct Kennedy and Cohen retail chain) 12" b&w tube-type portable, in 1975. The first new color TV I owned was a Zenith L-1310C in 1979, followed three years later by a Zenith color portable with the then-new electronic varactor tuning system. I needed a new color TV at that time like I needed a hole in the head, but for some crazy reason I wanted a TV with electronic tuning, even though the first Zenith color set was working perfectly well.  |
Hey, don't knock the Kenco B/W portable. IIRC, they were selling them for something like $38.00, as a leader.
Back then, I got a few of them as freebees, because the owners thought that they weren't worth repairing, as they were so inexpensive. There was always something simple wrong with them. They were made by Sampo and were similar to the small Admiral sets. The real nice ones sold for $40.00, two bucks more than new.
