Model ID this RCA DIMENSIA?

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Originally Posted by Jeffhs

I was not aware of RCA's teletext experiments, although if you say the set-
I think teletext, had it materialized, would have been a one-way system for the dissemination of news, weather, and sports updates, financial news, etc., not unlike today's MSNBC, et al. on cable TV.

Back in the day, I suggested that teletext mode could have been used as a display mode for a home computer (this was the 8 bit days of Atari 800's and Commodore 64s). Instead of a TV modulator sending the video from the computer onto channel 3 or 4, and that makes for low resolution, have the computer create a teletext style signal on that video signal, and the user switches the TV set to teletext mode, and he will get a nice sharp computer display. Submitted this idea to RCA's patent attornies, but they never did anything with it. Well, I did get other patents there.