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Old 04-21-2025, 09:15 AM
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Originally Posted by zeno View Post
Yup RCA me thinks. Those donut chassii were dogs. Still a few around in the 70's. At most we would make them "run" again but have the customer sign off
for ZERO warranty. I think they were one reason for Zeniths success. They
were so easy you would try to sell them above the rest. At a Mom & pop
I did everything from cleaning the toilet to the pay roll. You do what you can
to make life easy.
Zeno
LFOD !
Thanks for that perspective. I got many RCA's as clunker-gimme's compared to Zeniths, which they always wanted fixed.
I think that sums it up for why RCA wasn't more successful in those critical years when color was priority one, while Zenith was making better monochrome sets
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