Motorola 21 inch rectangular, 1966

[old_tv_nut]

[Hawkwind]

My Grandmother bought one back then, I thought it was 25 inch. Almost every time you would turn it on, all you would see was a white screen. 6 months later, replaced with a Zenith that lasted till about 1981...

[Electronic M]

If the one on the cart is a 23" then I have one sans cart...Uses the SODPIL single tube color circuit.

[old_tv_nut]

Motorola had at least two sizes, which were advertised at the overall diagonal tube size ("viewable diagonal" size regulations had not been set yet). I had just started there in 1966 and bought a 20 inch table model (actually 18 inch viewable, I think) from employee sales. If you recall a 25 inch set, it probably was 23 viewable.

[Username1]

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I think the very last time I remember seeing Sales People in the TV Department wearing
A suit & tie was in Sears decades ago.....


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[jr_tech]

The “21inch” console in the picture looks so tiny, dwarfed by the two guys next to it. I suspect that the tube was 19V size.
IMHO, better suited to a tabletop or cart.

jr

[old_tv_nut]

I may have misremembered the advertised size of the table model I bought. Could very well have been 21 "inch." Beside the vinyl-clad metal cabinet, the thing I recall is replacing the horizontal/HV section tubes once a year to restore picture brightness.

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by old_tv_nut

Motorola had at least two sizes, which were advertised at the overall diagonal tube size ("viewable diagonal" size regulations had not been set yet). I had just started there in 1966 and bought a 20 inch table model (actually 18 inch viewable, I think) from employee sales. If you recall a 25 inch set, it probably was 23 viewable.

Mine is 25"/23V. I have a habit on rectifier sets of referring to them by the viewable measure Since it's more real to the average consumer.