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Originally Posted by wa2ise
The horizontal output tube, and damper diodes, were fairly hard to substitute cheap SS for. Lots of high voltage spikes and such, which tubes are quite tolerant of, much more than SS is. Took a while before cheap and reliable SS that could handle it came out.
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The Zenith 4 tube hybrids come to mind here. The only tubes were the horizontal output, damper, horizontal oscillator, and vertical output. The rest of the set was solid state, including a solid state HV tripler.