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Originally Posted by leadlike
It's my understanding that Philco continued making roundies later than Zenith/RCA. I wouldn't be surprised to see a budget Philco from '68 or so if that was the case.
edit: This guy has a '68 Philco roundie on his page:
http://www.ct-tv.50megs.com/photo3.html |
The interesting thing to me is that this tube has the greenish face of all-sulfide phosphors. This would say the tubes really were being taken out of old overstock, since everyone had gone to rare-earth red (giving a more neutral-color screen when off), even for roundies, by 1968 [or was someone still running a round tube line with sulfide phosphors?]. So, this set may have had a 26kV chassis, but it did not have as bright a picture as the "$800" set.