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Originally Posted by reeferman
A working 21" color prototype in 1951?
I'm like Kojak.
I don't buy it.
I have never seen any proof.
The following is from the late Ed Reitan's website.
"July 9, 1951. A 21-inch direct-view color picture tube was shown by RCA. (RCA used the term "shown" when equipment was not operational!)"
http://www.earlytelevision.org/Reita...bc_firsts.html |
That makes sense. Appears that several proposed tubes never made it to production. Several CRT manufacturers used terms like "samples" which were furnished to manufacturers prior to production.
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2 Working Zeniths and one on the bench. Into electronics since the days of Earl "Madman" Muntz..Worked 8 years for a Zenith dealer in NW Arkansas.
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