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Originally Posted by kx250rider
Probably true for consumer TV, but I think we'll see CRTs in industrial and government applications for decades to come. One of my collector friends who works as a tech at Edwards Air Force Base pointed out that the US Government still uses 10BP4s in some military applications, and 21FJP22s too! They both have current catalogue numbers as of January 2006. Tax dollars at work! Charles
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I saw what looked like a metal-cone tri-gun CRT on ePay about a year ago. It was at an office-equipment repair shop in Idaho, of all places. It had a very mil-looking P/N on it, didn't have the hundred bucks they wanted, it closed w/no bids. I assume they are used in radar displays or something like that.
I did pick up an RCA 8-something-P4 in military packaging some years back, hoping to stuff it in the most-deserving of my 8-PT flock. Can't decide which one, though...
Speaking of our tax dollars at work, betcha all these foreign outfits that have reduced us to just sales and repair (when worth repairing at all) have a sizeable number of U.S.-educated engineers. They get a real deal with you and I paying for much of it!