What's so great about RCA?

[Dave S]

I worked for a small, neighborhood TV dealer / repair shop in the late sixties several days a week after school. They sold Zenith (and later also Andrea) and were very proud of the fact that Zenith and Andrea sets still featured a "hand wired" chassis. That was supposed to be the mark of the upper echelon of quality at the time. Not sure if the hand wired circuits of the day were more or less reliable than a printed circuit, but I do recall that the sets cost more!