[bgadow]

I have a Portacolor like that, with a plain beige cabinet, no handle, no ears. Just as cheap as they could possibly make it. It doesn't even say "Portacolor" or have the color crests, just "General Electric". I guess that let them chisel the price down below $200.

The Magnacolor sure looks clean. I've been playing with a series of 15" sets lately, including RCA, Zenith, Sylvania & Airline (Admiral). I know I've seen that crt # in one of them. As you might guess, the Zenith was a dream compared to the others, & worked pretty well as found. The RCA has color problems, the Sylvania has vertical problems (compounded by a pc board that lifts traces if you look at it funny) & the Airline was just plain built on the cheap, with tons of empty holes on the pcb & on the back of the chassis; you can tell what they left out by the crummy picture it gives. Why didn't they all just build Zenith clones?!