old_tv_nut
12-15-2023, 06:01 PM
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View Full Version : Motorola 21 inch rectangular, 1966 old_tv_nut 12-15-2023, 06:01 PM https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53400779180_4d2a7b45b6_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53399418497_616216baff_b.jpg Hawkwind 12-16-2023, 10:50 AM 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 12-18-2023, 12:59 AM 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 12-18-2023, 10:00 AM 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 12-18-2023, 03:20 PM . I think the very last time I remember seeing Sales People in the TV Department wearing A suit & tie was in Sears decades ago..... . jr_tech 12-19-2023, 01:56 PM 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. :scratch2: IMHO, better suited to a tabletop or cart. jr old_tv_nut 12-19-2023, 05:04 PM 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 12-19-2023, 07:16 PM 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. |