29 May
2024
29 May
'24
2:39 a.m.
> What/when was the first personal TV? :-)
On Tue, 28 May 2024, Christian Kennedy via cctalk wrote:
When someone slapped a handle on the top of a console
and called it
"portable"?
My Philco from about 1960 had a handle, and was portable,
But, I gave my parents their first COLOR TV (a used one) in the late
1970s. It was a large heavy box, but it had a handle on each end.
So, "portable" might mean a loop on the top to attach the crane, or riser
blocks to give the forklift clearance?
"personal" may be orthogonal to "portable".
My "personal residence" is certainly not portable, . . .
Despite the fact that Fred was being cheeky, a serious
contender is probably
this tricorder-llike thing from the end of the '50s:
https://www.earlytelevision.org/philco_safari.html
My grandfather had one of those!
My cousin (David Unger) ended up with it.
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