Originally Posted by
smoothness
i love the color. i wonder what they put in the big space on the right side; maybe they carried a spare crt?
I worked as a TV technician for a little while in the 80s. A CRT would be too big, and we had another caddy for smaller vacuum tubes. The spot does look like the right size for a Simpson 260 volt/ohm meter.
Simson 260 VOM (picture borrowed from the internet)