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When I was in 9th grade, I found a 19" one of these in the alley behind the town's "RCA" TV shop - our little town had two, I worked at the Zenith/Quasar one. The remote was laying on top of it. I loaded that thing in the back of my Vega wagon and brought it home, only to discover that the CRT was bad; almost zero emission from the red gun.
Next day I brought it to work, opened it up, put it on the tester, and, yup...almost nothing on red, the other two were great. Rejuve didn't make a difference. This was the first set I had ever seen with OSD and I kept it for a year or so in my room, watching it with that horrible picture just because it was so cool to have remote and OSD. The remote was ultrasonic, even though it had all those buttons. You could year it shrieking different tones if you put it up to your ear.
I don't remember what happened to it. The set was only a couple of years old at the time and it would have made sense to put a new CRT in it. And now that I think about it again after all these years, I wonder what the set was doing on the ground in the alley with the remote neatly laid out on top. I really hope I didn't take something that wasn't trash...
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