Seeing that Litton makes me homesick for the one I had--exactly just like that, but was the 1.5 cu. ft. cavernous Meal-In-One version.  The absolute best microwave I've ever used!!  Extremely even cooking.  Didn't need no stupid turntable to make sure your food cooked evenly.  That which is displayed is like a 1977 or 1978 model.  1976 at the very earliest.  Lasted me 24 years of constant daily use of real COOKING, not just reheat or steaming vegetables. 

Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.  Given I intensely dislike today's all stainless steel look.  There was always something I didn't really like all that much with the look of many Amanas.  And it just occurred to me.  So many had that all metal look.  A premonition of what is today's all stainless steel look?  Cold and institutional.  I'd rather look at the "color" of faux wood and black.    But they are durable. 

Yes, I had a meal-in-one model.  "entry level" that was all mechanical rather than touch panel.  the meal-in-one design was the reason why it cooked so evenly when cooking one item.  When I acquired my MW, I had moved work location to a very sterile environment with very few lunch options and there was no cafeteria.  My apartment was 2 blocks from work.  I began having lunch for about 6 or 8 people 3 or 4 days a week.  I'd prepare the meal the night before.  The meal-in-one allowed me to pretty much put all of lunch in the microwave at once and reheat everything simultaneously in 10-15 minutes.   Hence why I have so much microwave-safe larger pieces, could get a certain combination of pieces in the microwave at the same time to reheat. 

Anything with color is great in my book, in a world of stainless everything.  

Hey, did Litton borrow Frigidaire's ad template for that?  :-)

That Litton #27's control panel is exactly what my model 580 meal-in-one looked like.  Will, notice the subtle differences with the microwave "speed" control on the one like my parent's you have vs. this one.  I found this one actually easier for me to read. 

The model 1570 is the 1.5 cu. ft. meal-in-one series.  Mine looked just like that, but with the mechanical controls found in reply #27. 

Quote from the ad:

"Litton invented the microwave oven and solved the hot-spot problem without a turntable.
Litton patent prevented competitors from the hidden "stirrer" that breaks up "standing waves" which are the cause of hotspots. Thus the crummy models that have hotspots use the turntable as a solution technically ignorant customers can believe, but it's not as good and certainly not better than eliminating the hot spots as the Litton patented approach does!"

Were there american-made countertop microwave ovens that neither had a turntable or some kind of stirrer?