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Originally Posted by polaraman
I was cruising web pages and came across this roundie. Does anybody know if any of the sets survived intact? $30,000 in 1963 must have been a million dollars now.
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Not to put a damper on this, but I'd tend to wonder if any of these were actually sold (or even built other than the one photographed for the catalog). Neiman-Marcus historically runs one or two super-duper-amazing-but-also-super-duper-expensive luxury items in their Christmas catalog each year, but I think they do that more for the "Wow!" factor rather than for any serious intent that anyone will actually call/write in and place an actual genuine
order for one. If it turns out that nobody actually bought one, then does it really qualify as the first "domestic VTR"..? [If a VTR is pictured in a catalog, and nobody buys it, does it make a picture in a living room..?]
As another example, some claim that the Honeywell H316 computer offered in the 1965 Neiman-Marcus catalog was the first "home computer," but there seems to be some doubt as to whether or not there were any actual sales. If not, then I'd say it doesn't really count.