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Originally Posted by David Roper
At least one Muntz dealer was still running ads featuring their bait-and-switch leader model roundie combo as late as 1971, but I suspect the last of those had come off the assembly line several years earlier. There is a well-known 1968 Philco roundie and a lesser-known 1970 Magnavox roundie, generally agreed to be the last of its kind. As far as I know, the latter two were only available as table models.
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The Muntz model 1580 leader model, a burn't orange Plextone painted cabinet, using a 4 tube AM radio and a manual turntable, like the ones used in school phonos and an Astatic tone arm. The color chassis was a RCA CTC15 clone using a Zenith CRT. They must've bought out the last of the round CRT's , when Zenith quit building roundies.
Philco made their own round CRT's.