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Thread Number: 77781
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GE TVs,1950-85... |
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| Post# 1018191 12/16/2018 at 12:13 (1,950 days old) by cfz2882 (Belle Fourche,SD) | ||
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the "real"GEs,early days up until they were Thompson/RCA sets...I have ~5 "real"GEs-1978-85 and about to place one on the workbench to get it checked for next deployment.Anyone else have any old GEs-(especially any very early sets :) ) | ||
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Post# 1018200 , Reply# 1 12/16/2018 at 14:53 (1,950 days old) by RP2813  (Sannazay) |
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| Post# 1018202 , Reply# 2 12/16/2018 at 15:09 (1,950 days old) by LordKenmore (The Laundry Room) | ||
I don't own a GE TV. But my family's TV when I was young was a portable black and white GE. The story I heard was that my father wanted to see the moon landing, and he went and bought the cheapest TV. My parents weren't terribly into TV, and so that was our only TV until it broke around 1980, at which time was deemed (by the TV repair shop) to not be worth repairing.
One of the things I really liked about that TV were the glowing tubes that one could see if one looked through vents. | ||
| Post# 1018239 , Reply# 4 12/16/2018 at 23:45 (1,950 days old) by speedqueen (Metro-Detroit) | ||
 From what I heard, their best color offering for reliability was the PortaColor and that their other early color offerings had CRTs that died early, and cheap printed circuit boards that crumbled after only a few years. GE found ways to embed fundamental design flaws into everything they built. They were the original corner cutters. | ||
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Post# 1018241 , Reply# 5 12/17/2018 at 00:03 (1,950 days old) by Supersuds (Knoxville, Tenn.) |
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Back in the mid eighties, there was a little neighborhood drugstore in Nashville that still had a working GE console from what must have been the early Fifties. It seemed like it was deeper than it was wide. Maybe a 12 inch screen. The only reason I remember it was that that I happened to be in the store picking up a prescription when they were showing the Challenger explosion. It was horrifying anyway, but also seemed so odd to be watching it on a 35-year-old set.
The store owner/druggist said that the set took a long time to warm up, but otherwise worked fine. | ||
| Post# 1018252 , Reply# 7 12/17/2018 at 07:13 (1,949 days old) by CorvairGeek (Gem State) | ||
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Correction GE employee discount! | ||
| Post# 1018315 , Reply# 9 12/17/2018 at 16:34 (1,949 days old) by TheSpiritOf76 (Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, and OZ All Together. ) | ||
I have a 1983 GE...
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