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I can remember a time, not too long ago, where every hospital tv was a Zenith System 3 in the NYC area. Brooklyn, in particular. At one point, I could even rattle off the CRT number when visiting someone in the hospital and would remark that I had the same chassis and/or tube in one of my daily watchers at home.
Lots of 9-160 models and 9-181 models, made circa 1981-1984. These must have been BIG sellers in the five boroughs of NYC back then. I have found dozens at the curb and many are still in service in the wild.
The things seem to be nearly as longlasting as the Chromacolor II delta CRTs but the focus tends to go softer earlier. Still, they make a superb image usually and are rarely found as a dead set. No color "bleeding" that I have seen either.
I really wish we could make a set as good as a sys 3 these days. In a lot of ways, one of the last bulletproof sets.
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