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For me...it was in about 1978, and it was on a Motorola 23EGP22 set.
A grade-school friend had one, it was his parents " main set", I remember it had the dual--HO tubes and such. I SWEAR it also had some kind of "vertical channel readout", but with a mechanical tuner. IIRC, the set was becoming problematic by then, and there were 3 capacitors in a group in front of the big square power tranny, and one had been "knocked over" and was hanging by the leads.
The moved about the fall of the next year, I was about 12, and that moto set was NOT working right, I rememebr a TV guy there, and he changed a number of tubes, the 1V2 I am SURE of, and some others. The set was then working , to some degree... but the cataract was getting bad by then, and I remember asking about it, and the TV guy told me "it is the glue going bad that holds the glass on in the front of the tube". For some reason...they decided NOT to fix the set, and replaced it with a 19" Mits set.
I BEGGED for the set, but I did NOT get it. Jeff's mom did NOT like me very well, and no doubt convinced his step--dad who DID like me(and my mom too, to a degree..)that it was "too dangerous" for me to have the set. I have little doubt it ended up in a packer--truck. Not long after that--Jeff's mom's jealousy of his step-dad's attention to me and my single mom got to a peak...and she convinced his SF that I was a 'bad influence on Jeff",(in reality...it was the other way around..) and ended our friendship soon after.
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