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Our first color set was used. Got it from my Uncle in 70 or 71 (as he had a TV sales/repair shop) It was one of those RCA 19" mini consoles. I think a CTC-19.
The flyback went out in 77 or 78, and then we got another used set from him. A HUGE 66 Zenith Space Command. Before we got it, he installed a new flyback and a new Zenith Chormacolor picture tube. My parents had that till the late 80's. I think the yoke went out in it.
When I worked with him in the shop (starting in 1978), there were a TON of CTC-38's on our service route. A handful of CTC-16's, a few Zenith roundies, and a few Motorolas. Not very many had B&W as their main set. Mainly older farm couples still had B&W. I do remember alot of tube sets getting junked out by the late 70's,early 80's.
That was about the same time small B&W sales dropped off, as people would get a color set for a second TV.
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