80's Sharp Linytron Score

[jstout66]

HA! The sharpness IS on "overkill" haha. The picture is so sharp, it kind of hurts your eyes. Greyscale and convergence are dead on.
Too bad you're not close. You could have the TV. I usually don't go for that "new" but with that simple remote, I just HAD to.

[zenith2134]

One day I'll post pics of my Sharp TVs. I actually have quite a few like this, one with composite ins and outs, and one with OSD and remote. The others are plain jane. All have Toshiba Blackstripe picture tubes, which explains the great contrast. All free from CL

[Username1]

Originally Posted by jstout66

HA! The sharpness IS on "overkill" haha. The picture is so sharp, it kind of hurts your eyes. Greyscale and convergence are dead on.
Too bad you're not close. You could have the TV. I usually don't go for that "new" but with that simple remote, I just HAD to.

Thank you ! If I were close I'd be happy to take it..... And very proud to have it....
Who knows maybe someday..... I have a number of Sharp sets of the late 70's and
Early 80's. As I said before I worked at one of their farmed out factory service centers
just across the line from the NJ headquarters..... I should take pictures....
They are not doing all that well, who knows....

I have good memories of my first and only TV shop job just out of HS. Back then
my boss picked the sets he worked on, He liked Sharp, Panasonic, Sanyo,
(Which I also like a lot) Magnavox, and RCA, which he was authorized service for
all those brands. He hated Sony, he said they were a birds nest inside and
their circuits were just barely on the edge of not working. He did let me
see a few Sonys and they did look like there was no planning on the board
layout, or where wires came off the board. Panasonic, Sanyo, Sharp, WOW he
is right, the difference is night and day..... I have respect for a nicely made
product, so I like Sharp. My boss told me all kinds a good stuff about the company,
I met a lot of the big wigs, we went for training on their VCR's and paper print
calculators. We use to clean and repair them too.... Let me tell you back then
the VCR manual was as big as a phone book.... I wish I had a few of the VCR's
and those books.....

Me and two other guys in my BOCES TV school class were hired to work on the
Sharp stuff from the factory, and Yorks and LLoyds clock radios we got by the skid
load weekly. Once in a while when we were caught up I would work on walk in's and
I was the guy that would go out to pick up Magnavox returns to Caldor, and after George
went back to Cuba I was then handed the keys to the '69 Cutlass which was the
service vehicle for house calls..... Mostly a house call was goin out to old lady's
houses to push the auto color button, or pick it up and take it back to the shop....
It was all warranty work. Worst I had to do was modify IF boards on some
Panasonic sets that made noise with white writing on the screen when hooked
up to cable.... That was an hour or so.... Imagine- A kid right outa high school
Soldering on people's carpets.... HA HA HA......

Just one kids story of being brought out the the edge of the pier and pushed in....

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