Philco Ford

[bgadow]

I've had a few small bw portables, 2 tube & 1 solid state, all from Taiwan as I recall. I had a late 60's color console but that was nearly 25 years ago. A friend of my fathers had a solid state console that must have been about the end of the line before GTE swallowed them.

But, I haven't stumbled upon one in some time. Why? I'd say, they didn't have much market share by the 23v era & they tended to be lower-end sets. Just not many got saved, I guess. They built their own color crt's for a time, but not long (I think Zenith bought their plant) & I don't know that their own tubes lasted as long as some others. (I don't have much to base that on, though)