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There were a bunch of "rent by the hour" motels around here in the early to mid '90's all owned by the same person. Most of their sets were late '70's RCA 19" XL-100's with rotary tuning and a built in AM/FM radio. They did have a few older tube RCA's left and a few early '80's RCA's with the single knob varactor tuner. The reason I know that is because the owners thought I would repair them for $5 or $10 a set just because I was a kid. Around the same time, a retired TV man gave me a bunch of 18" Philco hybrid color TV's (and remains). None were worth repairing so I wound up junking them. These belonged to Travel Inn and the man that gave them to me said they were replaced by Zenith's in the early '80's. In '97, I bought 20 19" GE rotary tuner PC chassis motel sets for $5 each from Motel 6. These were from the early to mid '80's and most of them still somewhat worked. Yeah, I got in a little hot water with my parents when all of those got brought home! I doubt there are currently any rotary tuner (let alone tube type) motel sets in use unless they are used in very low end motels.
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