your favorite/most durable set

[wkand]

OK, nobody laugh...

A Sampo (Not Sanyo) 19" color set purchased from a now defunct Seattle area discount warehouse (Jafco) in 1980. The jungle IC went out in it after about a year. I broke all the rules and re-soldered the new IC back into the set instead of "socketizing" it.

I paid $200 for the set new, and $12 for the IC. That set saw minimum 10 hour per day use until 2002, and still worked except the CRT was getting tired and badly out of focus. My father used the set exclusively during that time. He liked to turn the set on first thing in the AM, then get coffee and a shower. He leave it on if he went anywhere, except for turning it off while at work.

I hope I did not post this already. If I did, I declare "senior moment", and sincerely apologize.