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Originally Posted by Findm-Keepm
Cheapo Motels here used 21" (22V CRTs) GE Solid State BW Consolettes - most were very late 80's specialty chassis. The cabinets had solid hardboard backs and plastic grilles in the side of the cabinet for cooling. I had a buddy that dabbled in TV repair in the early-90's for the motels, and he had me fix a few - he was lousy at troubleshooting beyond fuses and the occasional tuner problem. I must've replaced a dozen sound IF chips in those GE's - ECG712 chips, I recall. GE must've got a big batch of bad ones.
Odd to see BW sets in motels that late, but with a GE plant right down the road, the price was most certainly cheap.
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I'd like to see one of those. Did the chassis look similar to the "XA" chassis that was used in their 19" B&W's?
And, those NTE712's - I remember replacing those quite often in various B&W sets back in the early '90's.
A friend of mine, who started repairing TV's in the early '70's, said that some of the "rent by the hour" motels around here had Muntz (AKA, the gutless wonder) B&W TV's.