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Originally Posted by Popester
I find it interesting too that in the years I worked at the shop '75 to '85 in Boulder, CO I had also never heard of a RCA CT100 or a 15GP22 either. We were factory sales and service for RCA, Zenith, and Sony. I saw the beginning of Betamax and VHS and even the failure of the Selectavision. Was an exciting time. We had a Sony LV1901 on the showroom floor. One of the owners bought one of them. What a cool thing that was for a sixteen year old back then. I remember changing many a Zenith safety capacitor and the triplets in the vertical CCII chassis. I don't ever remember a Westinghouse brand set Color or B/W ever coming in the shop in the 10 years I worked there. I wish I could go back in time and get the Sony KV-7010UA we had that literally sat for years unrepaired or fixed. I didn't know any better then. Marshall, thanks for sharing this very interesting bit of tv history with us all.
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Like you, I’m attracted to Sony sets. I was prejudiced against roundie color sets. I think that came from the constant breakdowns of my parents b/w tube set from 1954. Unlike you and most of the members here, I chose a legal career. Just starting out my independence and career in 1965, wouldn’t even consider a roundie. Then I saw one of the early rectangular color sets by RCA, a 1966 CTC-19 which was my first color set. Then saw the KV 7010UA and KV 1210U. Bought both new. The 1210 was for my girlfriend, now wife.
Now that I’m retired, I found out that those old roundie color sets can produce a nice picture together with the nostalgia of going to department stores in Milwaukee and watching every brand I could find as a kid. So we took up the challenge and this Westy is said to be the first color TV to be offered for sale, although I dispute that. The 15GP22 in this set is 66 years old and to see it produce the color that I never imagined it could produce is very satisfying.
I said this before, someone like me should not own this set, because I can’t fix it on my own. It’s been said back then in the 50’s, “you need to hire a full time engineer along with the set.” �� I hope you find that KV 7010UA.