Zenith H2447R 19" Porthole TV

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by wa2ise

Sometimes I misread the thread titles, here I first misread "porthole" as "portable". Wonder if Zenith ever made a portable porthole.
Like those GE locomotive like portables, except with the entire round CRT exposed.

There was a 12" table set IIRC 1950 model year in a leatherette cabinet...Not sure if they had the stones to add a handle and call it portable.

IIRC MacDonald had the engineers adapt a table model porthole chassis into the back seat of his limo so he could watch TV on the go....Some electronics mag of the day had a write up on it. I bet he let them do the article as a way to put out feelers to see if there would be a car-tv market.