ISO: Sony "WATCHman"

At 17:49 17/08/2006, Don wrote: This used a CRT that was scanned from the /side/ .. Depth wasn't much, but you needed a comparatively wide box... This was an improvement on the first Sinclair handheld TV I encountered which was a about the size and weight of a small housebrick, with a tiny screen on the end. One I actually had myself, must be 20+ years ago, was a LCD based portable TV from, I think, Tandy (Radio Shack) which had an /optional/ backlight! Only about 2 x 4 x 0.5 inches, from memory. I think it used a mirror to capture ambient light instead. I used to use it on the train, where it was hampered only by continually having to re-tune as we passed between transmitters.. I seem to remember that at the time, I did try connecting it to a BBC micro, but res was too low to read even 40-column text. I've no idea what happened to it now.. think i lent it someone :-( Rob