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Originally Posted by Telecolor 3007
There was in the past on a site (Ed Reitan's one?) a list with the number of color sets sold from 1954 to 1964....
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In the past, I had spoken to Ed and others about that chart (
http://www.earlytelevision.org/Reitan/rcvr_prod.html). Note it was published a dozen years after NTSC color was introduced.
The 5000 figure given in the chart for the CT-100 came, it is clear now, from vintage RCA material released before CT-100 production officially started on March 25, 1954. Eighteen years of collecting data has acquired a set of 180 known survivors.
Interpreting serial numbers and production data stamped on the CTC2 chassis reveals that barely over 4000 CT-100's were produced. But it was truly the world's first mass-produced color television.
As to the second set, the 21-CT-55, let me speculate that the 21AXP22 21-inch metal-cone color CRT was actually introduced in 1954 and by the end of 1954 the 21-CT-55, known sometimes as the 'Spectacular' in a vintage photo, was also available. To confirm, we can/should inspect the CTC2B chassis for their production data stamps.
Pete