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For first solid state TV, period, Philco's Safari beat out Sony by a few years. Now, I'm curious - but was the Philco the only solid state set made in the 50's?
Was there ever an all solid state B&W console? When was the first?
Heh, a cheapie TV set with tubes in the 80's? I always thought the portacolor was last, though I suspect the cheapie TV market took longer to go all solid. I recall years ago tearing apart a late 70's looking set and it was all compactrons, even bringing the Horz output plate (the tube combined the output + damper!) through the socket. didn't Zenith do that a lot later on?
I've also seen tube sets with triplers on the HV (Sylvania comes to mind).
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