Color TV In Hospitals

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Back in the '80's, the hospital that we used had mid '70's Sylvania GT-matic hospital TV's. They were the type with the motorized one way tuner where UHF was the "off" position. The remotes were plugged into a socket by the bed. In the early '90's, I actually got my hands on two or three of these sets. They were heavy as lead and used, IIRC, the E08 chassis. They used a power transformer and a delta gun CRT. I think the same hospital had some E53 Sylvania's with a single knob motorized varactor tuner and inline CRT and some E32's with cable ready tuners. Sometime in the late '80's, most of these sets were replaced by 20" cable ready Magnavox sets. I think these sets were recently replaced by black box Philips hospital sets.

Some of the other local hospitals that I've visited people in had a mix of Zenith system 3's, Sylvania's, and RCA XL100's.

As far as hospital sets that I've had over the years; I've had E08, E32, and E53 Sylvania's, an early 70's tube type color RCA, a mid '70's 19" RCA XL100 with the stand up chassis, some mid '90's (junk) Zenith "new horizons" sets, and an early '70's GE 19" color (don't remember the chassis). All had the jack on the rear for the plug in remote control.