07-04-2018, 04:40 PM
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Old Far...er...Rocketeer
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Plano, TX resident since 1998.
Posts: 3,965
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Originally Posted by tbzep
Trivia:
Estes was sold to Damon in 1969, as most of us know.
Motorola sold its TV production (Quasar) to Matsu****a Electric (Panasonic) in 1974.
The Estes Quasar appeared in catalogs (Citation series) in 1971 and disappeared in 1985, though it did go through changes along the way.
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Apparently Motorola was building TV's in Quincy, Illinois. When they pulled out, it really hurt the town. It took them years to recover. I was calling on that area in the 89-98 time frame. It was booming again, with lots of paging technology driving the biz. Needless to say, not long after, the pager biz took a dump and the town was hurt once again 
FWIW, we bought a Motorola Quasar TV around 1971 or 72 - our family's first color TV  It had the famous "works in a drawer". All the circuits were solid state - no more tubes except for the picture.
Doug
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