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As a kid I used to work in my Uncles TV sales/service shop. He was a Zenith dealer. The first roundie I ever saw was when I was 7 or 8, which would have been in 1974/1975. I went to a friends house and they had an Admiral with the tilt out control panel. I thought it was so cool! My parents first color set was an RCA CTC-19 mini-console, so I wasn't even aware of round screen sets until going to watch cartoons at my friends. As for working with my Uncle.... There weren't very many roundies on his service route when I started helping in 1978. Mainly CTC-16's and a few Zeniths. In our area the RCA dealer must have had a HUGE sale on CTC-38's because that is what we ALWAYS saw. And with those it was ALWAYS flybacks....I could tell you some horror stories of what we would find in sets. I remember a dead mouse in an RCA portable. My Uncles main bitch was when we would go on a call and the customer had fiddled with the service controls. A few of them had gotten into and twisted every knob on the convergency panel. He reallllyyyy hated that! LOL!
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