I promised !! PICTURES of 1976 Zenith soild state BW CONSOLE.

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Originally Posted by rca2000

From what I have read and been told...they were mainly for OLDER people....who did NOT want a color set--who had a large BW set before and still wanted one. But that market was SMALL....and by the early 1980's...had prettey much...LITERALLY..."died off". BW then becam relegated to 19 inch and smaller--till maybe the mid--1980's...after that...it was hard to find ANY BW set over 13 inches.

I recall maybe 15 or maybe a bit more years back...selling a 19" BW set--from the late '70's...NOT a zenith, probably a single-board hot set...for FAIRLY GOOD money--maybe 65-75 dollars..to someone who did not WANT a color tv set !!

When my step-father was in the nursing home in '91, walking through the hall, you could see the various TV's on. While many of them were small screen color sets, a few were B/W. An old gal had one of those big old 23" tube type Zenith metal table models, probably a 14N22 B/W. Even then, it struck me as strange, why someone would bring such a large set, into those small double occupancy rooms.
Every set seemed to be tuned to "Wheel of Fortune"!