Salvaged [1983 Zenith Z1926W]

[VintageLove]

@ Kamakiri, I find that interesting what that salesman said about the 83's having a RED LED. Just looking at mine now, it says Manufactured October 1983 and it does have the green display, maybe the 84's had the RED LED, it would be interesting to know if they did. I also found an old commercial on youtube and the 1984 model was selling for $348! Zenith was even giving away a brand new 1984 Chrysler Laser Turbo that year as their grand prize! As to zeno that's really interesting about the antenna switcher and stereo adapter and yes I would love to find a door for it...sigh....maybe I'll get lucky on Ebay. My next step is to hopefully get a RF Modulator so I can watch the old shows like All In The Family on it, I got a 46 inch Toshiba DLP but it just isn't the same for watching Welcome Back Kotter on.

[pac.attack76]

Great find. Ive had a couple of these in the past. I have an 84 zenith with a green display right now.

[Kamakiri]

Originally Posted by VintageLove

@ Kamakiri, I find that interesting what that salesman said about the 83's having a RED LED. Just looking at mine now, it says Manufactured October 1983 and it does have the green display, maybe the 84's had the RED LED, it would be interesting to know if they did. I also found an old commercial on youtube and the 1984 model was selling for $348!

Sounds about right on the price. But if yours was manufactured in October of 1983, like cars, it would be considered a 1984 model

C'mon, ME not remember a television?

[Jon A.]

Originally Posted by VintageLove

I find that interesting what that salesman said about the 83's having a RED LED. Just looking at mine now, it says Manufactured October 1983 and it does have the green display, maybe the 84's had the RED LED, it would be interesting to know if they did.

My understanding is that a red LED channel display indicates that the set is not cable ready, whereas a green one says it is. Perhaps they all went cable ready in '84.

A non-cable ready set with a pull-on/volume knob and a numeric keypad would have been kind of a pain to use with one of those old CATV converter boxes as the set could be powered on and off via the converter remote, but would default to channel 2 as the channel memory requires standby power. That is unless, the converter happens to output on channel 2. At least one of mine does.