1973 Motorola Quasar II estate sale find!

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Originally Posted by ChrisW6ATV

I see its "one-button color" feature is called "Insta-matic". It is a good thing that Kodak did not make TV sets; Motorola would have got in big trouble.

Actually, there was a lawsuit, and Motorola settled by adding the hyphen and agreeing to not register it as a trademark.

"Instamatic" at that time was used by about 8 companies, and Kodak was cubbyholed in the photographic realm.

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