Motorola Color Television

Originally posted by jstout66
Great looking set! I haven't EVER seen a Motorola roundie. They were so quick to have a square tube that there can't have been very many sold. Does yours work?

Motorola introduced the 908-Y chassis in the fall of 1963. This chassis was an excellent performer, and used the rectangular 23EGP22 CRT, which was developed jointly by Motorola and National Video Corp (both in Chicago). This CRT was the world's first mass-produced rectangular color tube. The sets were deluxe models with Drexel cabinets, and were priced accordingly. About 100,000 of these sets were manufactured.

During this time Motorola also marketed a budget line of color sets using round CRTs & series-filament hot chassis in cheap cabinets. These were priced at about half the price of the rectangular models, and did not sell well. I was not aware that Motorola had produced a round tube model with a transformer-powered chassis in the sixties - must be quite rare.

Today it is rare to find ANY Motorola color set, including the Quasar! In the sixties, they were common.