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Old 10-10-2015, 09:59 AM
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That is an incredible discovery Doug. Thank you for being the steward of this legacy.
Rather than wonder if the covergence "wheel" was re-invented, did Motorola need to design anything special due to the rectangular tube development or was it because RCA owned the patents?
IIRC, CBS Labs owned the tri-color phosphor dot patents.
It was stated on the CRT labels on the Japanese color CRT's.
Motorola designed the pin-cushion corrector circuit for the rectangular CRT's.
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Mass produced in 1963?
Great find.
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Mass produced in 1963?
Great find.
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Correct. Motorola had intentions on getting the new tube into mass production in mid 1963, but there were some problems in getting production started, so things got delayed until the end of the year. So late 1963 sets would be the oldest rectangular Motorola sets that could be found. However, those sets didn't get shipped to distributors until January, 1964.

As for Mr. Wood, unfortunately I didn't find any photos of him or his family while at the estate sale. His daughter was there at the sale and I was able to speak with her about some of his work.

The damaged slides shown were the ones that you could at least get an idea if you looked closely. Many of the others were so bad that it just looked like color swirls and absolutely nothing could be interpreted.
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Older customers loved those sets because they had a very smooth picture (no detail)
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I love this history of Motorola TV. Many thanks for sharing these slides.
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A very interesting tour, thanks, Doug!
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With Doug's permission we've added the slides and his commentary to our website.
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O love the pictures of the chassis!
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very interesting post.this is the main reason i joined.the knowledge that is shared.thanks,doug
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