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I'm the one who posted about this set a few years back here and on antiqueradios.com. I still have it and it is in working condition, but is missing the knobs, the two woodgrain escutcheons, and the red Mitsubishi light-up logo below the channel selector knob. The picture shown at the top of the thread is a smaller version of the set I have; I guess the "viewing window" was widened a bit soone could view the set slightly off axis. This set uses series-string vacuum tubes; the chassis sits vertically on the right-hand side. The three CRTs have red, green, and blue phosphors; no color filters are used. Like someone just said, it produces a bright picture, and I'll add to that a Technicolor-like vividness to the color. The downside is the small (5-6") picture; but Mitsubishi provided a plastic Fresnel lens to mount in front of the window as a magnifier. The set appears to have been made in 1964 since many parts in the set have a 1964 date code. I doubt these were ever sold in the US in great number as the tricolor CRTs had already existed for years, and the trinescope, at least to me, appears to be a bit Rube Goldberg-ish in comparison.
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