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Originally posted by Steve D.
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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Steve,
When I was a kid I used to stare at that GE set in our local Broadway dept. store. It was really neat to me. Being only like 250 bucks or something it was actually in the price range of a normal human being. My Dad thought the picture was small and blurry and wouldn't hear of us getting one. Every time I see one on Ebay it all comes back to me. Silly but true.