Oh yeah, I _only_ picked this up because I needed something to tear down as a teaching experience for the YL. I plan on it surviving the process and I'll give it directly to someone who actually wants it and will keep and use it. If I make $10 on the deal for "checking it out and servicing/adjustments." that's cool, if not, I got the value I needed out of it. It was all
as I dove past. (I was actually thinking: Maybe one of these trash pickup piles has a microwave in it.) Had it been any of the various funai/san-sui/Coby brands, I'd have completely ignored it. Same goes for a similar vintage "RCA" Which is funny, I like telling people "RCA is now a French company (Thomson) that has manufacturing plants in Mexico. Go 'murrica!" I'll at least stop and prod anything Sharp/Panasonic/Samsung/Sony for free, but I'm not stopping for anything completely without worth or redemption.
I just scored this at Goodwill. Oh dear god, never again will I forget that going to *that* Goodwill outlet on a Friday (People get paid on Fridays, I've been told.) is a terrible idea... Because holy crap, we're talking bluebottles on a fresh cow-pat type frenzy!
UHF still had 70-83 back in 1986?
Fairly great condition overall. I'll find out tonight what functional condition it is in. Presumably someone at goodwill powered it on, and made sure there was static on the screen and the radios worked.
It has a degauss button on the back, that's a very desirable feature in a portable set I would think.
I think it is close to being "vintage" and now I have the added peace of mind that the YL is much less likely to suffer serious injury during the lessons. More points to probe, too! None of this "Here's the RF in, here's the tuner chip, baseband comes out of that and goes into this chip, and hey here's the color gun signals, audio goes that-a-way, mind the flyback lead, dear." crapola. I'm expecting it to be mostly discrete chips for the different functions along the way.
My new pride and joy!
