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Whoever gets the Color-Tel will have a real prize. I have had one for 20+ years and have demo'd it all over the place including the ETF conventions.
It was a real interesting piece of engineering that is capable of a nice color picture. It came out in 1955 when color sets still cost around $900 and sold for around $150.
The disadvantages where the flicker and the small size. The one on Ebay has the picture desmallinator box used to reduce the size of the raster when color is shown. The adapter was meant to slide over the top of the set when color was not being shown.
The flicker can be reduced by watching the color program in a darkened room with low brightness. The flicker is more evident to some people more than others,threshold persistance of vision must vary.
Attached are some pix from a Colortel.
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