Blue RCA TK-41 camera

[W.B.]

Originally Posted by Aussie Bloke

General Electric also made IO tubes and I have one in my collection which can be seen on my site http://www.troysvintagevideo.741.com/orthicon.html . Surely GE would use their own tubes? Or were the B&W IOs made for colour cameras a different type of IO to the standard IOs used in B&W cameras and only RCA made the specialized IOs for colour cameras?

I have to wonder . . . maybe the specialized color IO tubes were exclusively RCA's domain.