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So what's a portable?
Is that 21" roundie on a wheeled cart a portable? It can be pushed from room to room. Or do we define portable as a set that has a handle and can be lifted
from place to place. Does the set have to be light enough to be lifted by one person, and if so does that mean an average person, male or female? I recall the 1964 Toshiba (also sold by Sears) 16" color rectangular set. It had two recessed handles on each side. So what. The set was extremely heavyand bulky. My vote for the first truly portable color goes to the GE 10" Portacolor. Introduced in 1966 at 25lbs. By today's standards, it was a little bulky and cumbersom, but at the time was a major breakthrough in color tv to go. The Portacolor picture, in reference to a previous post, was ok but not great. I'm not refering to reception problems, but the fact that the tri-color dot pattern was the same size as large screen sets. This made for reduced resolution and sharpness on the 10" screen. The colors also tended toward the pastel. I recall the Portacolor was discussed at length on a previous thread on AK.
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