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Originally Posted by Sandy G
I agree, Fuji- "Grrrrr!", indeed, but for a WORKING museum display, a roundie stuffed w/modern guts prolly makes more sense than going w/the original. [...] Helluva shame, but that's the way it is.
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Yep, I'd agree. It's really not practical to leave a fully-original vintage TV constantly running in a typical museum situation, no matter how nifty that might be. As someone mentioned in another thread, even the Smithsonian doesn't do that, including the couple of prewar sets they perpetually have on display (which were fitted with "guts" from modern B&W TVs, as of the last time I was there).
Now, of course there are some specialized museums that do have such things on display. BTW, one I haven't seen mentioned here before is the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting (
http://www.pavekmuseum.org/ ). It's in the Minneapolis area. I've been there a few times, and they've got a pretty fair range of stuff, ranging from acoustic spring-wound phonographs, to early battery radios, to televisions-- including radio/TV broadcast-related equipment. The specific items on display tend to rotate from time to time, and most (but not all) of it is kept in operating condition and they'll gladly demo most of it for you..! They even used to have a CT-100 on display, but I don't think it has been on the floor for some years now. However, one reason they can keep these things going is because the equipment is not on 24/7, and there's always someone from the museum nearby to supervise/watch the equipment when it is running.
They do have some odd/interesting stuff there though-- when I was there once a few years ago, they even had an old radar unit on display (running and operational) that had been used as the weather radar by one of the local TV stations.